The British royal family, in crisis and without a clear driver between illnesses and rumors

The images of the memorial tribute ceremony to King Constantine of Greece, exiled in London and cousin of the British royal family, showed how distant the House of Windsor is today a wasteland without a concrete driver.

With European kings present and the entire Greek royal family on display in St George’s Church in Windsor, King Charles left a few minutes earlier for Clarence House. His cancer treatment and the immunity he produces do not allow him to socialize.

Prince William, his son and heir to the throne, stunned the world when 45 minutes earlier he called the Greek royal family to inform them that, Due to a “personal matter” I was unable to participate to pay homage to his beloved godfather, the Greek king. The corresponding reading would be read by Pavlos, the heir to the throne of Greece.

The reasons were never reported. of this absence of the heir to the British throne and Prince of Wales. Although the palace insisted that Kate, the future queen who recently underwent abdominal surgery of which no further details are known, is “doing well”.

The royal silence only suggests that Kate is much sicker than official statements report and that the king’s cancer is delicate. But there is no official information other than dozens delicate versions.

A mysterious suicide

As if that wasn’t enough, Prince Michael of Kent gave their all at the ceremony commemorating King Constantine. Hours earlier, Thomas Kingston, husband of her daughter Gabriella, aged just 45, had died mysteriously in Glucestershire. Probable suicide.

King Charles and Queen Camilla paid tribute to Lady Gabriella’s “much loved” husband after news of his tragic death emerged on Tuesday night.

“The King and Queen have been informed of Thomas’s death and join Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and all who knew him in mourning a much-loved member of the family. In particular, Their Majesties send their most deep thoughts and prayers to Gabriella and the entire Kingston family,” the royal family said.

The royal family, orphaned

True orphanhood showed its other side. The private ceremony in Windsor was presided over by Prince Andrew – banned from the working royal family for his role in the Epstein case and his alleged sexual relations with a minor and participation in orgies – and his ex-wife Fergie, the Duchess of York, who publicly announced her battle with breast cancer and melanoma.

Andrés paid his alleged victim £12 million and there was no trial, but in Britain he is not considered innocent.

The ceremony was attended by 23 members of the extended royal family and 37 real Europeans, including the emeritus kings of Spain Juan Carlos and Sofia, the current kings Felipe and queen Leticia, grandchildren of the late sovereign, Queen Anna Maria, wife of Constantine, Prince Andrew led the British royal family to church. It was the best real of the real at the moment.

Then Queen Camilla arrived in the official Bentley, dressed in navy blue and with her real and heavy hat, to conduct the ceremony. But he is not in the line of succession.

Andrew’s presence disturbed the British subjects. Although it was a private royal ceremony, he is formally barred but wishes to be reinstated.

The end of the “lean” monarchy.

The “lean” monarchy, which King Charles had engineered when he finally ascended the throne, has been dismantled by the departure of Harry and Meghan, the monarch’s illness, William’s withdrawal from public activities to care for his wife, surgery and from Kate’s rest.

Nothing remains. They must turn to grandchildren, relatives in their eighties and without titles to perform patronage or be present.

Everything in between conspiracy theories that Kate has colon cancer, with metastasis, does not live with William but with her parents because her marriage has fallen apart and she is much worse off than the Palace admits. The truth will never be known. Information impossible to confirm. The subjects deserve to know the truth because they pay for the monarchy.

Harry and Andrés, the excluded

In this traumatized family there are two officially excluded: Harry, fifth in line of succession and son of the king, and Andrew, eighth in line, son of the late Queen Elizabeth and brother of the current monarch.

Harry and Meghan went into self-exile and accused their relatives of racism after the brutal Sandringham summit, where Harry was stripped of his status. An offense that takes longer to heal than a successful biography, for which his brother William does not forgive him. The brothers remain irreconcilable.

But in this emergency real, Harry has a role to play. Not only is he the king’s second son, the “Spare” (the Spanish title of his autobiography, “Spare”) and likely regent of William’s children if his father dies and William becomes king.

It seems unthinkable, but the British line of succession is so brutal. After William, the only adult is Harry. In the center, William’s children. He actually becomes number two. The Prime Minister will inform Parliament of this difficult measure.

But Harry’s attempts to get closer to his family have been difficult. He traveled 25 hours to see his father for 30 minutes at Clarence House when the king called him to tell him that he had cancer. He asked that Queen Camilla not be in the audience and offered his father his help in the emergency. He was rejected, they don’t want to see him come back. Harry’s mere presence scares the courtiers: they accuse him of being indiscreet. In reality he is frontal and very military, like his Greek grandfather, Prince Philip.

Today Harry lost a court battle but not the war. I will appeal. The Duke of Sussex has lost a High Court appeal against the government over its decision to change his level of personal security during his visit to the UK and has been left without immediate custody.

Harry, 39, launched legal appeal against the Ministry of the Interior for the decision to deny him and his family automatic police protection every time they return to the UK. The Duke argued that he should be treated no differently to other VIPs, who receive specialist police protection.

He’s not just the king’s son: he’s an Afghanistan veteran, there was an attempt on his life, his mother was molested to the point of death and they tried to enter the Montecito house more than 20 times. He has a strong guard, led by Barack Obama’s bodyguard, who pays in California.

After a hearing in December, Judge Lane rejected the Duke’s application for a judicial review of the safety failure, criticizing his “formalist and inappropriate interpretation” of the process by which such decisions had been made.

In his ruling against Harry, the judge appeared to criticize the duke’s claim that Ravec (the Royal Executive Committee and VIPs) had not considered the impact of a “successful attack” on him.

Non-custodial

Judge Lane said: “The impact, both at home and abroad, of a successful attack on a particular individual is the foundation of Ravec’s existence.”

“It would be strange if the experienced president of Ravec, when making a decision on the plaintiff, did not take into account the consequences of a successful attack,” the king continued.

The duke’s “criticisms” also failed to “engage the nature of Ravec’s decision-making”, the judge said.

The Home Office had argued that the duke was no longer a member of the group of people whose “security position” was regularly monitored by Ravec. But he was “reinstated to the cohort in appropriate circumstances”.

A central question in the case was whether the Home Office was entitled to make a decision that Harry’s security arrangements would be considered on a case-by-case basis. Addressing this issue, Judge Lane wrote: “Ravec not only had the right, but also the obligation, to address matters on a case-by-case basis.”

“Ravec was clearly under no obligation to adopt an explicit comparative exercise of the type advocated by the appellant and to draw from it only the conclusion that the appellant wished to see,” the judge continued.

Harry’s lawyer had previously told the High Court that an attack on him would damage the nation’s reputation and that he would be treated “unfairly” by the Home Office.

The Duke argued that failing to carry out a risk analysis and fully consider the impact of a “successful attack” on him meant the approach to his protection was “illegal and unfair”. However, on this issue, the Duke ignored “the positions and experience of all those” involved in the decision-making process, the court ruled.

The court was told that the royal protection committee took into account the death of the duke’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in making its decision.

The Ravec is composed, among other members, of the king’s private secretary, a Harry’s personal opponent and fundamental at the top of Sandringham, who stripped him of his military rank without the prince being informed. They took him out of custody to initially force him to return to Britain and not speak or make documentaries about the royal family. The Sussexes went discreetly to live in California, left unprotected in Canada and without any custody, when the Covid outbreak began.

The Duke of Sussex will appeal the decision.