Elizabeth II, the black chronicle of her II Annus Horribilis

• 'Royals' Elizabeth II turns 95: the loneliness of a queen who begins her retirement

Knowing what really happens to Queen Elizabeth is quite a challenge.

the longest-living monarch in history is thinking, doing or how is doing, but, to the usual lack of transparency at Buckingham Palace, we must now add concern for her state of health and for the future of the city. institution. Politics aside and, despite her 95 years of age, surely the last two years have been

The death of the love of her life, the pandemic, the

and the association of her favorite son with one of the most notorious scandals of the last decade are, perhaps, too much even for a woman accustomed to the maximum scrutiny both in her work and in Your private life.

And it has always been like that, surely without intending it, the queen was one of the pioneering

in the world of television.

, for example, the documentary that came out of the visit was

in the UK alone. It was June 1969 and the man had not yet stepped on the Moon and legend, perhaps more than reality, says that the British were so hooked on what they saw that the whole country went to the bathroom during the publicity and there were problems in the supply of water.

In any case, by then she was used to the whole world following each and every one of her movements, as she was one of the first regents to have to live with the media world. And yet, he did what he wanted

, who was getting five, Isabel did not care that her relationship with a young man whose family had had

in the family and in much of society .

The

, whom she married in 1947 at Westminster Abbey, was especially complicated during the first years of the marriage as he, who is attributed more than one extramarital

, was not entirely clear .

A few days before the wedding, Philippe went to spend a few days in Cornwall with the novelist

with whom he was supposed to have an "emotionally intimate" but not sexual relationship.

Although he supposedly, as always in these cases, wanted to stay with her, the writer recommended that he

A file photograph with her husband Felipe de Edimburgo, whom she fell in love with when she was just thirteen years old.

She was not the only one, however, with whom it is speculated that she had something more than a beautiful friendship

, owner of a cabaret, childhood friend and mother of one of his godchildren, and Pat Kirkwood, a musical star with legs that were "the eighth wonder of the world", according to the chroniclers of the time, are others names that appeared over the years. The information blackout in this regard, and the rumors that have always circulated, suggest that perhaps they were not the only ones.

Even so, knowing how important it was for the institution that they make the marriage work, Felipe and Isabel always remained together, a commitment that they were not able to transmit to their children.

In Buckingham,

will always be remembered as the year of the failure of love in the Windsor family, as it was when

or separate from their partners.

Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and their four children, in a 2007 image.

With whom she had the best relationship, and has, Queen Elizabeth is with Sarah Ferguson who, in some way, is

. The British socialite went so far as to say that for her the monarch has been "more of a mother" than her "own mother" and this shows in the fact that

. Of course, it also has to do with the fact that

, since he has been allowed more gaffes than anyone else and he even continues to defend him tooth and nail despite his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, former friend of the Duke of York and one of the most controversial men of recent times for his systematic abuse of minors.

The queen also had to endure that year that the

reminded everyone of the infidelities that she herself had had to endure. Although at first the inks were only charged against Princess Anne for her

it was finally also shown that her ex-husband, Captain

as a result of an affair with a New Zealand art teacher . The scandal hurt so much in the royal house that to this day it remains one of the banned issues and father and daughter still do not cross a single word.

However, the separation that has brought the most problems to the institution and to the monarch itself has been the divorce between Prince Charles and Lady Di. For the first time since she came to the throne, Queen Elizabeth had to deal with a

that could even overshadow her. Already during the years in which the couple remained together, the royal family was criticized among other things for not giving them enough support with their

. In addition, the notorious

, as the case of

was called, put public opinion even more on his side despite the fact that she too had been unfaithful.

The death of Lady Di in a traffic accident while being

also marked a before and after.

The queen, who had previously been forgiven for being late to tragic events in which she had to be present, was harshly criticized for her

in a funeral seen by 2.5 billion people on television, but also for

and not appear publicly to offer his condolences until five days after his death.

The queen and her husband at the presentation of Archie, the son of Meghan and Harry.

The reunion with the public, in this sense, would not occur until five years later, when, with the

and mother in 2002, she again broke with that

. The problem for the queen is that her favorite relatives have always brought her more headaches, and if her husband gave her infidelities and her son Andrés a divorce and her connection to the

, her grandson Harry, the favorite, brought her the

by marrying Meghan Markle and disappearing from the royal family.

A scandal, the most notorious since Diana's interview on the BBC, which has not even allowed her to live in a media peace relative to the death of the Duke of Edinburgh at the beginning of the year.

That is why it is not surprising that now, with

Buckingham Palace has decided to close doors, rows and windows to protect, even at this moment, the privacy of a person to whom They gave him a crown and took away his privacy.

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