Despite a kingdom marked by family crises, the Queen of England celebrates her birthday with the approval of 80% of England
citizens. EFE Elizabeth II turns 80 next Friday with many reasons to celebrate: she is the monarch who most traveled in all history, has one of the longest
governance of the planet and met some of the main personalities of the 20th century. Among all reasons, one specifically calls up our attention as for highlights the peculiarity of these 54 years of governance in the England throne: although she had faced infinity of family scandals, the Queen keeps high popularity with her subjects. According to recent opinion researches, Elizabeth II has 80% of England citizens’ approval, a rate that has been kept for the last 30 years. And not few were the moments her image could have been denigrated. The most notorious of those moments, certainly, was the break up between Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Gales in 1992. But scandals that highlighted Elizabeth II era are even older. To be precise, the first scandal occurred even before Elizabeth had taken England throne. That is why queen Elizabeth II was only crowned after her paternal uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated his post in 1936 to marry a divorced commoner woman, the American Wallis Simpson. This decision of Edward gave the throne to Elizabeth’s father, George VI, who died in 1952. Way was then free to the young princess, 25 years old by that time, that took place one year later. However, what she did not know was that a sin of matrimonial failure would mark her future governance. Elizabeth’s first sorrow happened in 1978 when her sister and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones got divorced after 10 years of marriage. After coup has passed, life in Buckingham palace – official residence of the queen in London – just ran with no bad surprises, until the “dark” 1992, year marked by sentimental disasters for three of the queen’s sons. The country witnessed the divorce between Princess Anne and Capitan Mark Phillips; the break up between the dukes of New York , prince Andrew and Sara Ferguson; and the matrimonial crises between Prince of Gales Charles and lady Diana Spencer. “Camillagate”. This one was hastened by the explosion of a “bomb” known by Camillagate: the transcription of a very intimated conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bolws, current wife of the crown’s heritage and the pivot of the misunderstanding between Prince Charles and Diana. The tape recording, revealed anonymously to the local press, showed Charles telling his lover about his hot desire of becoming her “Tampax”. The tape publication was the last straw. In December of that year, the current United Kingdom first-minister, John Major, announced the friendly separation between Charles and lady Di. The divorce became official in 1996, under an expressive ask from Elizabeth II. This bad phase was reflected in a Christmas message, when Elizabeth II had declared: “1992 was not a year I will remember pleasantly. It was a terrible year”. Difficulties hadn’t stop yet, and were not only matrimonial matters. That is why Elizabeth’s grandson, Harry - the youngest son of Charles and Diana and the third to the throne’s succession - has been involved in several disgraces. The non-obedient Harry, how he is known in the United Kingdom, had been in the sensationalist newspapers’ headlines for being customized as Nazis, for smoking Mary Juana, for attacking a “paparazzo” when leaving a dance club, and more recently, for celebrating his graduation as an official of the Britain Army in a “striptease” club.
Monarchy protector, despite all those facts, Elizabeth has kept her image intact. In a large scale, her prestige can possibly be conferred to her role as a protector of the English constitutional monarchy. Many citizens consider her as a British institution as well as the monarchy regime itself. All British first-ministers who have passed by Elizabeth II law audiences declared their impressive opinion about her deep knowledge of the legislation, professionalism, dedication to the country and defense of the British church. The labor Harold Wilson (premier between 1964-70 and 1974-76) even said: “I firmly recommend that my successor really do his duties before the audiences”. In Tony Blair’s opinion, unique first-minister who was born in Elizabeth II governance (May, 1953), “monarchy today is more protected than ever, due to Elizabeth’s work”. Concerning constitution, queen Elizabeth II is an essential part of the British legislation process. She is responsible for calling upon the leader of the part that obtained majority in the elections in order to ask the new administration layout and read the govern program wrote by the first-minister. As the State-leader, the queen has the power of declaring war, make peace, recognize foreign States, formalize treaties with other countries and leave territory. All Britain govern work are made under her name, a continuous practice all way the history, fact that reinforced the solidity of the British monarchy. Even though, there are powers Elizabeth II prefers not to exercise, as the possibility of sanctioning law.