History is prone to amazing rhymes.
The death of Queen Elizabeth II is very reminiscent of the death of Elizabeth I, which happened more than four centuries ago, in 1603.
The age of Elizabeth Tudor was also extremely long by the standards of that era - she died at the age of 70, having spent 45 years on the throne.
Given the current successes in hygiene and organotherapy - after all, not the 16th century - it is quite comparable with 96 years of life and 70 years on the throne of Elizabeth Windsor.
But the point is not only in the similar longevity of the two queens, but also in the fact that their long age both then and now tormented impatient heirs.
Then James VI Stuart, the future English King James I, languished: “For 15 years he has been forced to doze in Edinburgh in inaction and wait, wait, wait until the scepter falls out of the cold old hands of an old woman.
Grumbling, dissatisfied, he sits in his Scottish castles, often goes hunting, but all his affairs come down to one thing - to the endless, fruitless and malicious expectation of some news from London.
“And yet the hour is coming: finally, in a cruel single combat, death overcomes the unyielding.
Under the window with a saddled horse in the lead, the messenger of the impatient heir is waiting for a conventional sign.
A certain court lady promised, as soon as the life of the queen was cut short, to throw him a ring from the window.
Long hours pass, the messenger looks up in vain.
The old queen is still keeping death at bay.
Finally, on March 24, a window rang, a woman's hand hurriedly protruded, a ring fell from above.
The messenger immediately mounts a horse and gallops for two and a half days without a break to Edinburgh - this race has remained memorable for centuries.
The belated Jacob Stewart becomes king, the Tudor dynasty ends.
Today, the messengers are no longer galloping, driving horses, but impatient heirs also expected news from the Scottish castle of Balmoral.
Whether the lady of the court threw a ring out of the window, we don't know.
But the dynasty will be new anyway.
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha will be replaced by Oldenburg - by father / grandfather, Duke Philip, who died last year.
How did the Tudors change to the Stuarts?
One can, of course, object: what do we care about the intricacies of succession to the throne and genealogy, when the affairs of the kingdom will be run either by Elizabeth Truss (formerly an ardent republican), or in general, as Napoleon put it, "the English oligarchy."
Neither Karl nor Wilhelm bent her.
Partly so.
But the death of Queen Elizabeth, who reigned for 70 years, will put both the heir to the throne and the very institution of the British monarchy in a difficult position.
The United Kingdom itself became increasingly divided during the reign of Elizabeth II.
Scotland, which entered into a union with England as a result of the death of Elizabeth I, at the end of the reign of Elizabeth II, is increasingly moving away from this four-century union.
When everything goes awry, some in the woods, some for firewood, and the premieres of Her Majesty at the end of her reign showed a rare freak show, the British could say about the queen: “This name is our stronghold!”
Since it is not the name of evil clowns to hold together a disintegrating state.
Furthermore.
The very current ambitions of London, behaving as if the sun never sets on the long-defunct British Empire, owe in no small part to the fact that the Queen has been on the throne since 1952, when the British Empire was still quite itself.
Elizabeth II extended her virtual imperial existence with her seemingly endless reign.
But now it is not clear whether the principle of La reine est mort, vive le roi will work and the braces (which were so laughed at in relation to Russia) will continue to hold the island monarchy together with the new king.
Either the contrast between the grandmother and the son will turn out to be so strong, the dissonance so striking, that only chips will soon be left from the braces.
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In the case of the contrast between L.I.
Brezhnev, not as long-term as Queen Elizabeth, but also giving a certain illusion of the steadfastness of the foundations, and light-winged M.S.
Gorbachev, we know what process went as a result.
On British soil, a similar contrast can lead to similar results.
The late queen did her best to hold back the decay with her very personality, but nothing earthly is everlasting.
Of course, the new monarch can say: “With me everything will be like with my grandmother,” but it’s easy to say, but in reality, as with my grandmother, it will never happen again.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.