Lukewarm and scant tributes from the British royal family on the first anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II

Being the successor of Elizabeth II is the most difficult inheritance for a king. One year after her death, Charles III, her son and new sovereign, chose silence, a statement and photos to honor her and “a day of contemplation” at Balmoral Palace to remember her and, at the same time, commemorate her first regnal year. “A king dead, king made” for the House of Windsor.

The king did not address the public.But on Thursday he issued a statement remembering everything his mother “meant to many of us”, on the occasion of the first anniversary of her accession to the throne.

Carlos said he remembered with “great affection his long life, his devoted service and all he meant to many of us.”

The formal color photogrh of her mother, chosen by the king, was taken by Cecil Beaton and shows her at age 42 in 1968. She is smiling with all her splendor, her Order of Garter cloak and wearing the tiara of the Grand Duchess Vladimir, made of 15 interlocking diamond circles.

The Royal Family spent a week together at Balmoral Palace, in honor of the deceased sovereign.

Balmoral was where he died and spent his last days. There he went to die when bone cancer destroyed hereven if it is written on the death certificate who died of old age. They even forgave Prince Andrew, who came to his annual holiday at Balmoral, along with Fergie, his daughters and his grandchildren, and stayed in the cottage that the queen always used.

Charles III decided to make a gesture and stayed sleeping at Balmoral on the day of his mother’s death and this Friday to honor her, before leaving for his nearby Birckhall palace, inherited from the queen mother.

The King and Queen attended a private prayer service this morning as they paid personal tribute to Elizabeth II on the anniversary of her death.

Charles and Camilla, the new queen, arrived for the memorial service shortly before 10 at nearby Crathie Kirk, the stone chel that Queen Victoria used to visit. There she greeted the Gillies, who worked in the palace and accompanied the queen on her hunts.

Accompanied by a small number of Balmoral guests, they attended private memorial prayers at Crathie Kirk. It is the church where the Queen always prayed during her summer holidays at Balmoral, and also where Princess Anne married Timothy Laurence in 1992.

The royal couple were joined by the late Queen’s niece and nephew, Lady Sarah Chatto, Princess Margaret’s daughter, and the Earl of Snowdon. The earl was accompanied by his daughter Lady Margaret Armstrong-Jones, and Lady Sarah by her husband Daniel and her sons, Samuel and Arthur.

Iain Torrance, former Dean of the Chel Royal of Scotland, who knew Elizabeth II for decades and became a close and trusted spiritual advisor, gave the sermon at Crathie Kirk. The service lasted about 30 minutes.

The King thanked the nation for the “love and support” shown to him and his wife one year after the death of Queen Elizabeth.

“As we mark the first anniversary of His late Majesty’s death and my accession to the throne, we remember with great affection his long life, his devoted service and all he meant to so many of us. “I am also deeply grateful for the love and support you have shown my wife and me this year as we do everything we can to be of service to all of you,” she wrote in the statement.

William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, visited St Davids in Pembrokeshire for a private service at the cathedral, before speaking to local people who met Queen Elizabeth.

Harry, the Duke of Sussex, arrived in London on Thursday and was visibly emotional for the evening, paying tribute to his grandmother at the WellChild charity awards of which he is a patron. The prince made a short speech. He paused to clear his throat as he told the audience: “She’s looking at all of us tonight.”

He has not been invited to Balmoral, although he is spending the day in London, nor will he see his father, the king, or his brother William. The courtiers said that there was no room for a meeting of the king with his son on his agenda.

He link is broken after the publication of his biogrhy Spare, where he reveals his Royal life. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, did not travel to London. But she will meet Harry in Dusseldorf, Germany, where the Invictus competition, founded by him for war wounded, and supported by the German Ministry of Defense, begins on Saturday.

They are not at Balmoral. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who visited St Davids Welsh Cathedral for a brief private service, paid a personal tribute to the late Queen, saying: “We miss you”.

The message, written by William and Kate on Twitter/X, read: “Today we remember the extraordinary life and legacy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. All of us miss you. toilet.”

It was accompanied by a family photo of the monarch surrounded by her great-grandchildren, including Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, and her two youngest grandchildren.

The couple are also pictured on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth and Charles during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, with another image of the Queen, dressed in a vibrant blue coat and hat.

Rishi Sunak also paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II this morning.

“With a year’s perspective, the scale of His Majesty’s service only seems greater. Her devotion to the nations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth seems deeper. And our gratitude for such an extraordinary life of duty and dedication continues to grow,” she said.

He added that he treasured the memories of his meeting with the Queen and was impressed by her “wisdom, her incredible warmth and grace,” and also his “sharp wit.”

“People across the UK, whether or not they were lucky enough to know Her Majesty, will reflect today on what she meant to them and the example she set for us all,” he added.

Liz Truss, the former prime minister whom the queen installed very shortly before her death, also spoke about her last meeting with her. She described her as an “optimistic” and “fragile” but “mentally alert” monarch. she told him that “they would meet again soon.”

Queen Elizabeth II received Truss at her home in Aberdeenshire on September 6, 2022 to point her as Prime Minister.

Truss told GB News: “I was very, very keen to make sure we would meet again soon. It was very important to her. She was very determined to do her duty, until the end.”

Elizabeth II ruled for so long and so consistently that, as with Victoria, It was difficult to imagine a world without her. When on his death a year ago his eldest son became King, a period of firmly retrospective mourning began, with little enthusiasm for what would come next.

Charles III, who had already exceeded retirement age after spending more than half a century circling the line of succession to the throne, he could offer nothing of the youth, promise or glamor of his mother in 1952. Britain was another kingdom, Brexit in the middle, separated from Europe.

King Charles, at 74, seems determined to forge a reign that will stand out for combining a solid worldview with the will to modernize one of the last great imperial-scale monarchies on the planet. At the same time, the King has taken advantage of the first year of his reign to indicate that understands the limits of the constitutional order.

Those who imagined that Carlos might cross those limits with incendiary pronouncements have been dispointed. It is uncontroversial, even though the government decided it could not attend the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt.

Charles III wants a reduced monarchy. But the departure of Harry and Meghan and the withdrawal of Prince Andrew’s working family have reduced it so much that They do not have members for the hundreds of patronages Which they exert. They are going to have to change the method, not just the form.

More than a “Slim” monarchy, the king must reduce the number of palaces, his domestic staff, his valets, and especially, increase the transparency of the crown’s finances, which are opaque, in the midst of austerity.

He true cost of monarchy, particularly when it comes to security, remains opaque. The Crown Estate formula must be scrped and replaced with a fixed budget.

to the monarchy it lacks diversity. The departure of Harry and Meghan, the first mestiza of the Family, They exposed secrets and racism at the House of Windsor. Beyond the tabloid campaign against the Sussexes, young Britons support them. less than a third Of those who are between 18 and 24 years old today are monarchists in the kingdom.

This attitude also affects the link with its former colonies and the Commonwealth, the one most loved by the queen. It’s on the way to dispearing because the former colonies do not want the king as head of state.

Accusations of racism, link to slavery and need for repairs ruined the Prince of Wales’s tour of the Caribbean last year. A reconciliation of Charles III with that of his son Harry would show well-exercised paternitywhen he has received a lot of criticism for it after the death of Princess Diana, and being able to meet his grandchildren.

The king maintains a 60 percent proval rating and the majority of British people support the monarchy as an institution. But the House of Windsor is in crisis because the mystery is over that Queen Elizabeth knew how to maintain for more than 70 years. Every week its dysfunctions are read in magazines of celebrities.