Evening time in Buckingham.
The stalks in the manicured lawns are as upright as the sentinels at the entrance, and the bridges over the Thames are straight and high between yesterday and tomorrow.
A black taxi approaches the gate.
With a light step a familiar figure jumps out of her.
The approaching camera reveals that this is the actor Daniel Craig or, more precisely, this is Bond, James Bond, the British intelligence agent known to every movie lover.
He makes his way through the palace corridors to the boss's office.
There, in the company of her loyal pair of dogs, Elizabeth is engrossed in her work.
She finishes taking care of her urgent matters and leaves with 007 for a flight over London.
They pass a crowd of revelers in Trafalgar Square, over the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral and send a wink to the immortal Winston Churchill statue near Westminster Abbey, which winks back at them.
At dark they fly over the Olympic Stadium in Stratford.
There the elderly queen says goodbye to her companion and leaps from the helicopter.
She hovers over the place where the Olympic torch will be lit shortly and opens a parachute on which is printed the "Union Jack", the beloved flag of the kingdom that previously decorated, how not coincidentally, a parachute used by James himself in the movie "The Spy Who Loved Me" from 1977 .
In an age when Britain continued to disintegrate from its possessions around the world, wage a bitter debate over its unity and change governments as often as James exterminates his enemies, the Queen provided a sense of stability and simulated continuity
In this scene, which blurs truth and fiction (and will earn the Queen the title of "the most memorable Bond girl of all"), the Olympic Games in London opened with a storm a decade ago.
For one moment, a fictitious movie hero and the person who stood, for decades, at the head of the British Commonwealth merged with each other.
The connection offered by the ceremony between the knotted warrior of justice and the no less knotted queen made a decisive contribution to shaping her renewed cultural image.
No longer a grumpy six-year-old, but an adventurous grandmother.
A monarchy that is ready to leap from heights by virtue of its commitment to its people and its God.
Old, but before you.
The year 2012 was the Queen's founding year, the watershed in everything related to the cultural and public attitude towards her.
A year in which the Queen celebrated the 60th anniversary of her ascension to the throne, the success of the new movie "The King's Speech" which presented her and her family members in a sympathetic way and the writing of a new play, "The Interview", which was staged in the West End and will serve as the initial nucleus for the successful television series "The Crown" ".
The ambivalent attitude towards her changed direction.
At the time of her puberty she had Edna.
In terms of her subjects on and off the island, the queen lived only twice.
The era of humiliation
Elizabeth did not always win overwhelming popular sympathy.
In the first 50 years of her reign, she and her family members were often presented in popular culture as a Donist stuffed animal collection.
In the comedy television series "Spitting Image" (from which our "Cheeks" were inspired), which was a huge success between 1984 and 1996, the royal family was presented as a well-powdered bunch of mummies, cut off from their surroundings and sucking their fields and assets.
Anyone who has seen the crazy film comedy "The Gun Dies Laughing" from 1988 will have a hard time forgetting the scene in which Leslie Nielsen leaps and taunts the queen's terrified daughter and gives her, like the rest of the secondary characters in the film, a moment of vulgar humiliation.
Even in "The Queen" from 2006, she was presented as having difficulty dealing with the beloved ghost of her daughter-in-law.
Even in the musical field, the queen was not satisfied in those years.
In the 1977 Sex Pistols song "God Will Destroy the Queen" she was presented as fascist control.
In their third album from 1986, The Smiths sang about her long-awaited death.
It is also doubtful whether Revata Elizabeth was pleased with the choice of Freddie Mercury and his friends to name their successful band Queen, which made the throne synonymous with extroversion and pomposity.
The last song on their last album from 1969 was chosen by the members of the Beatles to be called "Your Highness", but in their version the title is given to the beloved object of an alcohol-loving speaker, who hates his queen precisely because "she doesn't have much to say".
Later, the Queen will testify about the Fantastic Four as her favorite band, and it is doubtful that this love also includes the chorus that bears her title.
Precisely the one who was to be revealed, as mentioned, as a faithful companion, gave the Queen a valuable gift in 1969.
The film "In Her Majesty's Service" was one of the more successful films in the "James Bond" series, and its name indicated the hidden connection that existed between the royal institution and the unprecedented success of the literary-cinematic hero.
"Casino Royale", the book in which James first appeared, was written by Ian Fleming in 1952, the year Elizabeth ascended the throne.
Like the young queen, the country in which the young intelligence agent operated was post-colonial Britain.
Of the empire on which "the sun never sets" only the British Isles remain, and mostly stories remain of its glorious past.
Fleming's cheap thrillers offered their readers an escape route from the depressing present to a parallel universe, where Britain continues to dominate the airwaves and the cinema screens and where its experienced agents save the world from a dire fate on a daily basis.
The queen has no home
It is the United Nation's uncertain future that made the romantic image of the Englishman, devoted to his homeland, necessary and popular for its residents, and is responsible for the fact that in the last decade of her reign, the Queen has also become a representative of unconditional national commitment.
In "The Crown", the playwright and writer Peter Morgan was careful to present his queen as a woman whose commitment is first and foremost to the British Crown and the set of values it represents.
Throughout the five seasons that recreated the years of her reign, Elizabeth was presented as the only one who understands the burden involved in carrying the crown on her head.
In the Netflix movie "Royal Exit" from 2015, the queen was presented as the sole representative of "the crown", just like its synonym.
In recent years, the queen has gained sympathy and cultural weight that were reserved until now only for a spy who loved her.
In many ways she too has become a legendary figure representing the British spirit at its best, and like him devoid of any real historical context.
In an age when Britain continued to disintegrate, to argue bitterly about the unity of the kingdom, and to change governments as often as James exterminated his enemies, the Queen provided a sense of stability and simulated continuity.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that the queen was gathered to her ancestors not long after Bond also took his own life.
The king and queen have no more home and no more crown.
Who knows where the path of the new kings will lead.
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