Elizabeth II is a paradox. She is the most famous woman in the world - but we do not know what she thinks. In times when every D-class "celebrity" keeps babbling his senses into some camera - like his own - the Queen is silent.
Being neutral is her duty as a monarch, and at the same time it is her job guarantee.
The last king, who wanted to send the English Parliament home to do his thing, was struck off his head. In the meantime, the following division of labor has been established on the British Isles: The government is making the policy, the Queen may publicly read at the opening of parliament how this policy should look like.
Once a week, on Tuesdays, there is a tête-à-tête: Then head of government or boss appear for an hour with Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, they talk. There is no mention of what has been said - which has been working for almost 70 years.
The queen is holding tight.
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The Queen on June 21, 2017 in sky blue "Europa-Costume": a secret sign against the Brexit?
Two prime ministers have already worn out Brexit. Also on this topic, the most important question of their country since the end of World War II, the Queen never expresses explicitly. It offers - projection surface, which it is - only signs: An EU blue costume, which she carried in 2017 just to the opening of Parliament, a short speech in which she called earlier this year - so very generally - to bridge all differences.
Boris Johnson owes it to the aged monarch that now she, the strictly neutral, as an actress is drawn into the Ascension Brigade Brexit.
The new head of government dragged the Queen at the end of August through his sleight of hand to send parliament into a long compulsory break to undisturbed to promote a hard EU exit, in the lowlands of the daily chaos policy.
The taboo injury was huge, Johnson abusing the Queen, so the accusation. Because the monarch does not just represent; she is, especially in her powerless, neutral dignity, the symbol of a functioning separation of powers.
The next cliff is already waiting:
- What if, for example, Johnson did not resign as usual after a vote of no confidence, but wanted to stay in office against all custom?
- What if Corbyn then made representations to the Queen to let herself be commissioned to form a government - and the Queen - who had been neutral to Elizabeth for almost 70 years?