Britain comes out of the pomp and circumstance of the Coronation to reconnect with a country in crisis, with a very high cost of living and too many people who could not pay last month for electricity and gas. Coronation expenses will climb to $252 million.
The Republican activists, who protested with signs of "not my king" or "parasitic king", were arrested at the ceremony and then the police had to apologize. He sent a commissioner to the homes of the detainees on Monday night, with two policemen, to present their excuses and return their posters.
It was one of the scandals of the ceremony because the right to manifest is sacred in the kingdom.
Anti-monarchist demonstrators holding signs reading "He is not my king." Photo: Reuters
King Charles III and the new Queen Camilla departed for Sandringham Palace to recover from the three days of coronation celebrations. The royal agenda of the other members of the Slim monarchy is set in motion.
"Rebranding", an urgency
The medieval and pompous royal ceremonies in London have left an urgency: the "rebranding" of the House of Windsor.
An urgent institutional modernization, a change in an obsolete ceremony and a new mission of the king, to replace the lost mystery and stoicism of the 70 years of reign of Elizabeth II, if they do not want to be confined to unpopularity, insignificance and the pages of the magazine Hola.
Camilla and Carlos III during the last acts of celebration for his coronation. Photo: Kin Cheung / AFP
With the medieval uniforms, the gilding of the carriages, and the spirited and magnificent horses it is not enough.
With a 74-year-old king there will be no great birthdays, no jubilees, no weddings, no baptisms to celebrate.
The weight of the novelty will fall on the princes of Wales, William and Kate and their three boys, George, Charlotte and Louis, who before the departure of the Sussexes, entered suddenly and unexpectedly to the royal service, to try to delight the subjects.
The weight of the novelty will fall on the princes of Wales, William and Kate and their three boys. Photo: Jonathan Brady / AFP
William and Kate are going to face a great responsibility in the Royal House. It is the young people, who will have to travel far away, replacing two old kings and will not be able to maintain this public fight between brothers, who are the sons of the king.
William must reconcile with Harry and possibly Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, who makes it possible.
It will be the evolution from prince to royal heir, to statesman, without petty or obstinacy. Although that does not mean that Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, actively return to the House of Windsor, but that they do stop seeing them as enemies.
The Prince of Wales, William, greets a woman during a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. Photo: Jonathan Brady /AFP
Harry is fed up with how he is treated when he returns to London. Those who know him believe this weekend was his last concession to his father. He can be an uncomfortable witness after so many humiliations.
The problem of former colonies
The Commonwealth will be the big problem to face in the near future. The English islands of the Caribbean want, one by one, to abandon Charles III as head of state and become republics. The queen is gone. The neo-Empire died with her.
Since their visit in 2022, William and Kate have not returned to the Caribbean, after they faced in the Bahamas "the demand for a formal apology from the Royal Family for their crimes against humanity." That is, the slave trade and its profits.
William and Kate during their visit to Nassau, in 2022. Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP
Until they find a strategy to solve this problem with their colonies, the Royal House will have enormous difficulties to make their visits abroad.
The role of the monarchy in this modern world needs careful planning and a new model of approach to the population.
These "retro" and "vintage" visits, with Kate, Princess of Wales, dressed as a 1940s Vogue model remembering Queen Elizabeth II, are over. They only irritate or provoke laughter.
Kate, Princess of Wales, dressed as a 1940s Vogue model reminiscent of Queen Elizabeth II. Photo: AP
The problems to be solved for the Royals are how to address the problems of slavery and indigenous people on their travels to the former colonies.
Especially when the kingdom does not want to pay compensation, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson alerted King Charles, in a strong incident that both had. Surely there must be institutional changes in the role of the monarchy, in a kingdom with an unwritten constitution.
To serve and not to be served, the new mission
In a personal written message to the nation released on Monday, Her Majesty and Queen pledged to rededicate themselves to public service, after completing three days of celebrations. To serve and not to serve.
The King said: "As the Coronation weekend draws to a close, my wife and I just wanted to share our heartfelt thanks to all those who have helped make this such a special occasion."
With the message the new portraits of the sovereigns were distributed: Charles, overwhelmed not only by the weight of the crown and the new queen smiling because he never imagined it. Like in a Walt Disney movie, where the bad guys win.
Camilla was photographed next to the king. Photo: AFP
The King was captured in the official portrait in all his finery: wearing the Imperial State Crown, holding the Orb and Scepter with the Cross, and dressed in his royal purple robe and State Toga, sitting in a Throne Chair in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace.
Camilla was photographed next to the king, and also in a solo portrait, with Queen Mary's crown, with the tail of her long embroidered tunic extended in front of her.
The working royal family, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Edinburghs, the Princess Royal and Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duke of Kent, the Gloucesters and Princess Alexandra, were also photographed alongside the King and Queen in Hugo Burnand's images.
The king and queen, in an official portrait with the working royal family. Photo: AFP
But there were two missing in those photos for posterity: Prince Andrew, banned by the Epstein Case, and Prince Harry, the king's son, and self-exiled in California.
The same thing happened in the greeting on the balcony, with the mere presence of the Working Royal Family. But there were "infiltrators" there. There were the Middleton family and Mrs Elliot, Camilla's sister. An arbitrariness that will infuriate the "forbidden".
Harry at Buckingham Palace
When the Royal Family took these two historic photos, Prince Harry entered Buckingham Palace for the last time.
Prince Harry is seen outside Westminster Abbey, after the coronation ceremony, in London Britain, May 6, 2023. David Levene/Pool via REUTERS
It was after leaving the abbey and being postponed to the third row of the non-working Royal Family. He saw neither his father nor his brother, who did not speak to him during the ceremony either.
He went to the bathroom and departed for Heathrow Airport, in jacquet and medals, to catch a plane and arrive in time for the birthday of his son Archie in Montecito, who was not invited to the celebrations.
The service was the first time the duke had appeared with his family since the publication of his memoirs Spare. He did not agree to go to lunch at Buckingham Palace or the concert.
The service was the first time the duke had appeared with his family since the publication of his memoirs. Photo: AP
Harry's decision to attend the coronation pleased the king, who had hoped to have his two children at the ceremony.
While the Prince of Wales had a formal role in the proceedings, the Duke, who in other circumstances may also have been seen paying tribute, was a member of the congregation.
But on Tuesday, Harry's trial against the tabloid The Mirror begins in Britain for listening to his phone and violating his privacy.
One of three trials pending, which includes The Sun and The Daily Mail. He will have his statement in court in June. It will be extremely uncomfortable for the king and queen because Harry will say that they filtered their intimacies to publicly rehabilitate Camila and make her sovereign, after having been her father's lover all her life.
In 2019 Carlos asked him to stop the trial. Harry refused.
Harry, 38, has been selected as a "test case" in the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) trial over piracy allegations, along with actors Michael Turner and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.
The duke's claim involves 25 private investigators and 33 news articles, published between 1996 and 2010. Harry is scheduled to testify in early June, a pretrial hearing said Monday.
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