Carlos III the unpopular: the blunder in the inkwell is a symbol that we will miss Isabel II

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The last admirable act of Isabel II it was to die and thereby unite the most disunited United Kingdom in recent times. Hit by inflation and with a newly arrived Prime Minister, and much questioned, the Queen’s farewell at 96 years has unleashed widespread love and respect, visible throughout the country and especially at the gates of Buckingham, where entire families They came with flowers from the moment they knew that the Monarch had died.

Fathers and mothers paraded with very young children who probably won’t understand now what they were doing there on a rainy Thursday in September but who will remember as long as they live that they were taken to the palace the day the woman who appears on the sterling coins and notes died, the sovereign who a few hours before leaving forever had fired Boris Johnson and approved the arrival of his namesake, the disturbing possibilist who now lives in Downing Streetdespite the fact that only one in eight Britons support her and that more than half of the population fear that Liz Truss’s management will be “terrible”.

Also read: The commented gesture of Carlos III in his proclamation as king that has not gone unnoticed in networks

The unpopular and the populist

Almost from one day to the next, the United Kingdom has a new head of state and prime minister; one, infinitely less popular than his mother and his son, and the other, the successor of the political movement that has dragged the Tories into cheap populism.

But, even with such an economic, political and social landscape, with the uncertainty of the new Carlos and with the country in the hands of such a prime minister, the manna of respect and devotion towards whom Philip VI described Thursday as “one of the best queens of all time” was already acting this Thursday as a social liniment. The British crown, represented by the Monarch even after her death, when her son Carlos was already the King, thus fulfilled her main duty: hold his subjects together, together in the solemn moment to show respect and gratitude. Somehow, the shock for this ninety-year-old great-grandmother is worldwide. Only the Commonwealth or Community of Nations reaches two thirds of the inhabitants of the Earth. Until the Scottish independence leader reacted to a message on Twitter to the death of the sovereign in her residence at Balmoral Castle, near the Scottish town of Aberdeen. “His life was one of extraordinary dedication and service. On behalf of the people of Scotland, I convey my deepest condolences to the King and the royal family,” the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) said in her tweet. Nicola Sturgeon added that Elizabeth II’s death is “extremely sad” for the UK.

This Sunday the dead queen has already begun to move through the Scottish cities and then arrive in London by plane. Elizabeth II’s funeral will be this Monday at Westminster Abbey. She will be taken from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, where her coffin will rest on a catafalque. The queen will be in the ardent chapel for four days before her funeral, during which time the public will be able to say goodbye to her. This Sunday, the queen’s oak coffin is being moved from the ballroom of Balmoral Castle (Scotland), where he died this Thursday, and transported to a hearse.

Every city in the UK is riddled with Elizabeth II Posters, and hardly any images of the new king are seen in the streets. On the other hand, in Great Britain and in a good part of the planet, the image of Carlos III with the anecdote of the inkwell has gone viral. We got off to a bad start.

The popular affection that Queen Elizabeth II of England achieved and that has sustained the British monarchy was in a way offended this Saturday when the new sovereign was officially proclaimed monarch of the United Kingdom. The gesture that Carlos III exhibited with one of his subjects was to rudely demand that he remove from the table the inkwell with which the monarch wets the pen with which he signed the proclamation of him as king.

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