(ANSA) - LONDON, MARCH 30 - The images of the liturgy in memory of Prince Consort Philip, a little less than a year after his death, which yesterday marked the reappearance at an external public event - in the abbey of Westminster, London - of nearly 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth after more than 5 months of absence from the stage by order of doctors.
Emotion for the bright eyes of the elderly sovereign, who today in the meantime commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the farewell to the popular queen mother;
controversy over her choice to be accompanied on the way from the castle of Windsor to the entrance to her church by the most controversial of her 4 children: her third son Andrea,
Choice branded as "a stain" on the religious function and on the Royal Family by the Mirror, and underlined on the front page with obvious perplexity by the Guardian as well as by the same summer.
While, among the popular newspapers, even the right-wing (and monarchist) Daily Mail does not hesitate to openly evoke feelings of "bewilderment" for the image of Elizabeth II in the embrace of the "shameless Duke" of York: albeit attributing the blame for what happened only to this 'last (therefore not to His Majesty), to the fact that he apparently tried to take advantage of the public opportunity to regain the center of the stage in the family photos among the royals of the House of Windsor and blatantly claim those blood ties that cannot be denied him anyway.
An attitude that,
according to the usual anonymous sources dear to the tabloids, it seems to have also triggered "the strong" irritation of the elder brother, the other heir Carlo, and of the eldest son of these (second in line after the crown) William: future kings to whom - in his time - he was A decisive weight has been credited in convincing Laregina to exclude the now unpresentable "favorite son" Andrea from any formal role within the dynasty.
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Andrea from any formal role within the dynasty.
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Andrea from any formal role within the dynasty.
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