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Eight days in the Caribbean go a long way.

So much so that, against all odds, the bitterest drink was not that of Kate Middleton,

who had to drink natural 'Viagra' from the testicles of a mollusk,

but that of her husband, Prince William, who preferred the milk of coconut so as not to choke on an 'anti-colonial' feeling that overshadowed practically the entire trip.

The incidents, all of them peaceful, point, however, to a bigger problem, and that is to know

what will happen to the Commonwealth

, the last testimonial vestige of the British empire, once Queen Elizabeth no longer sits on the throne.


The problem, on this occasion, is not with Prince Charles, imminent successor to the Crown, nor with William himself, but with the suitability of

a foreign king in territories that became independent more than half a century ago.

The eldest son of Princess Diana, who wants to prepare his own reign based on an increasingly necessary modernization, hastened to assure that if the Bahamas, Jamaica or Belize, the territories visited, or

chose to become republics

, they would be "proudly respected and supported" in their decision.


"The prince believes that the stage where the royals have to be silent is over. That does not mean that he will speak every day, but he does believe that if the monarchy has something to say, then it should," he says. a monarchist source in the

Daily Mail

.

The rejection in these territories, however, has been a reality check

that

practically no one in the royal house knew how to foresee,

and that has exposed a communication department that

did not know how to anticipate a crisis that could worsen in future commitments.


The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge upon their arrival in Jamaica.

The backdrop of the demonstrations against the presence of the English monarchy does not seem to have much to do, in this case, with republicanism or the form of government, since, de facto, the queen has no power over these territories. ,

but rather with the memory of a colonial and slave past.

William himself had to confront the issue by

acknowledging the "horrifying" reality of the slave trade

.

His mistake, at the time, was to reduce his reaction to "sadness" without offering an apology that some Jamaicans were expecting.


"I agree with my father that the

horrific atrocity of slavery

will always be a stain on our history," the prince said during this tour honoring Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.

However, as happened to his father last year in Barbados, his words did not serve to allay a

feeling of disaffection

that led the Jamaican Prime Minister,

Andrew Holness

, to announce that he would fight to celebrate next year

a referendum to try to achieve independence from the crown.


The problem for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is that the communication strategy that worked for the queen in the 1960s and 1990s, when, for example, she drove around in a convertible Land Rover, has not worked for them now. especially because identifying with those times awakens memories of a

past associated with racism

.

And, when they tried to innovate,

things weren't much better either, as in Kingston, for example,

where they were made ugly by speaking to the mostly black local population through barbed wire, raising the

ghosts of old white privilege

.

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