Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom died, and her funeral was held at Westminster Abbey in London on September 19, local time. This is also the place where she was enthroned and held the wedding ceremony, from the British royal family and member states of the Commonwealth of Nations Guests and representatives from all over the world were invited to participate in this grand funeral, and more than 4 billion people around the world followed the live broadcast of the funeral.
Queen Elizabeth II was an excellent and competent queen who earned widespread respect around the world.
She is the last glimmer of the empire again, and almost single-handedly propped up the last bit of face of the British Empire.
When the Queen was born, the world was in an era of hegemony between the two world wars. Britain was still a world power that it could barely maintain. The United States had not yet fully achieved the hegemony of the United States. Roughly shrink back to the sovereign range of Great Britain, and because of factors such as Brexit, the impact on continental affairs in Europe is also slowly declining.
When the Queen ascended the throne, the first prime minister she met was Winston Churchill, a hero who emerged from the Second World War; in the years after the Brexit referendum, she experienced four The Prime Minister, from Cameron to Theresa May, from Johnson to Zhuo Huisi, has been disappointing one by one. It really makes people understand what it means to be in decline!
The Queen's State Funeral: On September 19, 2022, after the Queen's State Funeral Ceremony, the coffin left Westminster Abbey and was transported to Windsor (Getty)
Queen Elizabeth II experienced the process of the empire from glory to decline, but she did not collapse in despair, there was no vicious curse, and there was no struggle against confrontation, and the anxiety and struggle in the process of the decline of most hegemonies, the manic tyranny of the rulers A stark contrast was formed.
Because of the power structure of the British constitutional system, she just watched, and could only watch quietly, watching these children and grandchildren of her kingdom, step by step, played Great Britain into Little Britain.
The Queen truly conforms to history and penetrates into history.
She knows better than most people that Britain's becoming an "empire on which the sun never sets" is just a historical accident, and that the miracles brought about by the Great Navigation and the Industrial Revolution can no longer be repeated in England.
She saw that the world power landscape is brewing a new round of plate rotation climax after the "Cold War", but her kingdom has missed it.
Modern industrial civilization and bourgeois democracy originated in Britain and spread to the world in a process of colonization that blended blood, fire, gunboats, slaughter, and plunder. This is already the country's greatest "contribution" to the world.
Colonial Hong Kong.
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The Queen of England is also the head of state of the Commonwealth of Nations. She gracefully appears on the banknotes of the British pound and the member states of the Commonwealth. She is a mother in the world, carrying the historical memory of the British and maintaining the most cultural resilience between the United Kingdom and the members of the Commonwealth. ties, and fulfilled the national mission she was supposed to accomplish.
She is like the mother Jia in the Chinese classical novel "A Dream of Red Mansions". She is a noble, respected and amiable person. She is a symbol of Britain and a symbol of the great family of the Commonwealth. She has witnessed the final glory of the British Empire and foresees her departure. After that, the entire British Commonwealth system is bound to inevitably disintegrate and collapse.
In the novel "A Dream of Red Mansions", after the death of Jia's mother, Jia's mansion quickly went from prosperity to decline, and the Qing Dynasty behind Jia's mansion also declined after the prosperity of Kang and Qian, and the entire Chinese history entered a new historical cycle.
Today's British royal family and the British Empire are really similar to the story of "Dream of Red Mansions"!
It was the Queen's funeral, and it was the funeral of the British Empire.
She left neither early nor late, everything was just in time.
The Queen's State Funeral Crown Covers Gathered Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan at Westminster Abbey at the Ceremony ｜The tradition of moving the coffin to Westminster has a history of more than 100 years