Solemn royal liturgy on Holy Thursday without Queen Elizabeth
in Great Britain, for the first time in over half a century.
The almost 96-year-old sovereign of records, who in this 2022 celebrates the
Platinum Jubilee
of her 70 years on the throne with increasing effort, has in fact allowed herself to be delegated as announced in recent days by the heir Carlo and his wife Camilla to the function of the traditional
Maundy Service
, in St George's Chapel of Windsor Castle.
An event of great symbolic significance for the Anglican Church and for the monarchy, during which those who represent the Royal Family are called to distribute a donation to the community.
This time the task was entrusted to Prince Charles, given the difficulties of movement publicly admitted by the elderly queen in recent times.
A hard period that has seen Elizabeth struggling in the last year with the repercussions of various
family scandals
, the
death of her husband Filippo last year
, a phase of
prolonged isolation
and
limitation to the minimum terms of the official external commitments
imposed by doctors and finally from a
Covid infection
that left her "exhausted",
A
scenario that currently excludes even his personal participation in the Easter mass
, according to what was anticipated today by sources close to Buckingham Palace to the media.
While for the laying ceremony of
the wreath
in memory of the fallen at the Cenotaph in London on April 25 on the occasion of
Anzac Day
, the day of
remembrance of the military of Australia and New Zealand who sacrificed for the crown during the wars of the 20th century
, it has already been announced that the task this year will be entrusted to
Prince William
: Duke of Cambridge, eldest son of Charles and second in line to the throne.