“Britain must unite to support and offer loyalty and devotion to King Charles III . God Save The King ". Thus the British Prime Minister Liz Truss , announcing to the British the death of Elizabeth II and the ascent to the throne of the new sovereign, the eldest son of the sovereign, Charles, Prince of Wales.
74 years old, Carlo is the first of the four children of Elizabeth and Philip of Mountbatten (the others are Anna, Andrea and Edoardo) and, according to the Windsor family line, the first in the succession.
But in the UK , many doubt that he has the charisma to hold up a scepter like the British one.
To weigh, in the judgments of the detractors, his mild character and, above all, the disastrous marriage with Lady Diana Spencer , who gave him two children - William , second in the line of succession, and Harry - before the mutual betrayals, divorce and of her tragic death in Paris, in 1996, together with her new partner, Dodi Al Fayed.
Years in which public opinion has repeatedly sided with the "sad princess", somehow forced to live a fake fairy tale, to love a man who could not be loved . A man who, in reality, had always been in love with another one, that Camilla Parker , who - not even 10 years after Diana's death in 2005 - took her to the altar in second marriage.
To him - who was also covered by shadows of inappropriate acquaintances (think, for example, of the Saudi Arabia case or the rumors about his relations with Qatar ) and who in recent years has not hidden his sympathies for the environmental battle against global warming - the legacy of the “queen of records”, the longest-lived in history after the Sun King, beloved by her subjects, will have to be picked up.
After him, however, the throne will go to William . Elizabeth's favorite nephew. The eldest son of Carlo, but - above all - the eldest son of the late Lady Diana, as well as the "perfect" husband of the equally beloved Kate Middleton and the three princes George, Charlotte and Louis .
For someone (more than someone) the true future of the Windsor house.
(Unioneonline / lf)