Powerful forces are fighting for influence on Elizabeth II.
On the last day of October, the British Daily Mirror reported that Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain plans to hand over the reins to her eldest son, Prince Charles, in three years. The Queen intends to retire at the age of 95, the newspaper writes, making her eldest son regent.
It is also reported that the Queen and Prince Charles are holding confidential meetings, that Charles receives copies of all documents his mother works with. Elizabeth herself, the newspaper writes, intends to do everything to prevent disruptions in the work of the state apparatus in the event of her premature death or illness.
The Daily Mirror report is credible: it is sort of an announcement of the forthcoming book by Royal Correspondent Robert Jobson Charles at 70: Thoughts, Hopes And Dreams ("Charles at 70: Reflections, hopes and dreams").
The British establishment is today divided, and the royal family, as well as the royal entourage, cannot be aloof from the contradictions that are tearing apart the English establishment.
The famous saying that the Queen of England reigns but does not rule is incorrect. The British monarch has a lot of real power. However, his latent influence is even more significant, and not only in the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth, but even in the former British colony, the United States, which has become the only world superpower. Therefore, powerful and sometimes dark forces are fighting for influence on Elizabeth II, for the opportunity to approach her as close as possible.
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More recently, rumors have been proliferating that Elizabeth intends to declare the heir to the throne not Charles's son, but William's grandson. All recent years, British tabloids have argued that the queen is tired of the scandals in which Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles are dragging her, and intends to transfer the throne to her grandson. However, last year, Elizabeth II unexpectedly changed her mind and, according to the same tabloids, named Prince Charles as her heir. The Daily Mirror report, citing a book by the royal correspondent, translates these rumors into facts.
The reason for the change in the Queen's decision, according to some sources, is that Prince William has become too close to the financial tycoons of the City of London. Back in 2005, William completed an internship at London banks, and he spent most of his practice at the largest British bank HSBC Holdings Plc. In addition to HSBC, such major banks as Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Cazenove, NM Rothschild and others claimed the honor of getting the heir to the English throne. However, Prince William chose HSBC and did not sever contacts with this second largest bank in the world.
The minority shareholders of HSBC (with the right to participate in the selection of the board of directors) are the world's largest American investment funds BlackRock and Vanguard, which support the global policy of the US Federal Reserve, which has for some time come into conflict with the course of the British government and Buckingham Palace. This, most likely, was the reason that Prince William did not live up to his grandmother's hopes. However, the interests of the City of London, which William seems to have become a conductor, did not disappear, as did the fierce undercover struggle around the English throne, the victims of which could become characters from the inner circle of Elizabeth II.
In this case, we are talking about a series of strange incidents with persons from the inner circle of the queen. So, on September 19, 81-year-old Mary Morrison, maid of honor and maid of honor of Elizabeth II, fell down the stairs, according to the Daily Mail, and broke her ankle. As the Queen and her maid descended the stairs to the Ballroom of Balmoral Castle, where a cocktail party for the Castle Guards was being held, Mary Morrison lost her balance and fell, nearly knocking Elizabeth II off her feet, "flying inches from her," according to the source. editions.
The injured Queen's maid was taken to a hospital in the city of Aberdeen, where X-rays diagnosed her with a fracture. Despite the intense pain, the maid of honor returned to the queen, who was "shocked and worried," and accompanied Elizabeth, limping on crutches. Oddly enough, Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the incident, saying only that the Queen was shocked and worried. This is not the first incident involving the Honorable Mary Morrison, who has served the Queen for 60 years. In 2010, as she drove her car to Windsor Castle, steel bars of the safety barrier system lifted out of the asphalt and sank into the underside of the car, jamming the gearbox. As reported by the same Daily Mail, Miss Morrison went ahead, having received the permission of the duty officer,but the latter, for some unknown reason, pressed the button that controls the steel rods and raised them. The car went for recycling, and Mary Morrison escaped with a chest contusion. Buckingham Palace even in that case refused to comment on the incident involving Miss Morrison, keeping silent, as in the incident with her fall from the palace stairs. Whether the duty officer was punished, through whose fault Mary Morrison could have died, whether it was an attempted murder or just an accident, is unknown. It was not even reported whether an investigation of this strange incident was carried out. Whether the duty officer was punished, through whose fault Mary Morrison could have died, whether it was an attempted murder or just an accident, is unknown. It was not even reported whether an investigation of this strange incident was carried out. Whether the duty officer was punished, through whose fault Mary Morrison could have died, whether it was an attempted murder or just an accident, is unknown. It was not even reported whether an investigation of this strange incident was carried out.
If the case of 8 years ago with a certain stretch can still be attributed to a technical malfunction, then how to explain the sudden loss of balance by a wiry and hardy lady-in-waiting, who found the strength to return to the palace on crutches, despite the injury and severe pain? The staircase leading to the ballroom of Balmoral Castle has two flights. The first, leading from the palace lobbies, is quite long, but not too steep. If someone slips and falls, they will simply slide down a few steps without much harm to themselves. But to "fly" the stairs, as the source of the publication said, a strong push is needed. The entrance to the staircase from the ballroom is not visible, so one can imagine a situation when someone pushed the old lady-in-waiting, remaining unnoticed not only by the guards of the guard, but also by the queen, who was walking in front of Mary Morrison and did not see,what's going on behind her.
A certain interest among conspiracy theorists may be caused by the fact that the Honorable Mary Morrison lives in the now infamous town of Salisbury, which is her ancestral home. Miss Morrison's father, Major John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadile, at one time even was a deputy from Salisbury in the House of Commons, and the Queen's maid herself takes an active part in all significant public events in Salisbury.
Serving Queen Elizabeth II has become a deadly business in recent years. So, on April 9, 2015, the director of the Royal Art Collection Moira Jemill died under the wheels of a dump truck while she was riding her bicycle to work at St James's Palace. Black dump truck driver James Kwatia was acquitted by a jury. And the truck driver who ran over Peter Fischer, Elizabeth II's gynecologist, to death on August 16, 2018, when he, like Moira Jemill, was cycling to work at the royal palace, was not even detained by the police.
Returning to the dramatic fall of the maid of honor Elizabeth II from the stairs of Balmoral Castle, we note that if it was not accidental, then the queen herself, into whom Mary Morrison almost crashed, could have been the target of unknown intruders. Perhaps that is why Buckingham Palace keeps deathly silence about the incident. The Windsor dynasty knows how to guard their secrets, carefully hiding all the rubbish of the royal hut from prying eyes.
Maybe now, when the struggle for the royal throne seems to be no longer relevant, service at the royal court will become, if not less difficult, then less dangerous?