From Downing Street to Buckingham Palace

Weekly, British Prime Minister make business trip to buckingham palace. There, the queen was waiting for him. Although he wears the crown, it is the Downing Street tenants who hold political power. And as a sign of tradition, the head of government is obliged to notify His Majesty. “Everyone considered it one of the highlights of the week,” said historian Robert Lacey.

Since February 6, 1952, Isabel II will be the king of England and 15 other countries, fourteen prime ministers have been sent with him every week during these 70 years. Nail private audience Where secrecy there always is very tight.

“From Buckingham Palace, never, what the queen says to the prime minister or the prime minister to the queen is leaked,” said the filmmaker of the prestigious British political documentary, Michael Cockerell. However, biographer of the British royal family, expert Buckingham politicians and insiders they have can’t sleep some data about relationship between Elizabeth and her prime minister.

Churchill, his father’s friend

When Elizabeth ascended the throne after death his father’s, king george vi, Winston Churchill already occupied Prime Minister. He is 78 years old.

for her a friend of dad. It was said about him that always admired her queen’s security and seriousness and that, from her first audience, she explained that I feel more than respect for him. I think, in a sense, everyone has fallen in love with the queen a bit, but Churchill showed it openlysaid historian Robert Lacey.

“Everyone had a little crush on the queen, but Churchill showed it openly“

“Of course, he adores the queen, he loves her,” admitted Nicholas Soames, Churchill’s grandson. “She stirred up in her all her romantic ideas of kingdom and monarchy, and the new Elizabethan age, as she called it.”

Since the beginning of the reign, the new ruler made it clear strong commitment and sense of responsibility that, from then on, would mark his behavior in front of his people. A quality that captivated Churchill from the start.

Song with Harold Wilson

It decade of the sixties predicted wind instability in England. in 1964after decades of conservative rule, Britain changed political direction.

“I believe that Wilson was the first to treat him equally.“

It Labor Harold Wilson won the election and became Elizabeth’s fifth prime minister. “I think Wilson was the first to treat him like an equal“, says historian Lacey. The tumultuous 60 years and persistent strikes in the steel and coal sectors weakened Wilson’s labor government but this oxford professor and prime minister know how to explain it to the ruler how they work labor parties and trade unions.

“Over the years Harold Wilson’s trial, with the Queen’s blessing, began to last longer and longer and he— stay for a drink“, says Cockerell. Never before has brandy and gin been present at this weekly gathering, say Katharina Wolff and Larissa Klinker, directors of this documentary about the 70 years of Elizabeth II’s reign.

Difference with “Iron Woman”

What head of stateEvery year, Elizabeth II presides over the opening of the British Parliament. In 1979, together with the queen, another woman of the same age and realized her power star in ceremony. It worked from Margaret Thatcherthat first woman who will occupy prime minister’s office of His majesty.

Theirs divergence causing that, “for a long time, the audience with the queen was Reasonable tense‘, Cockerell insisted. ‘One of these two women likes confrontation, Mrs ThatcherY another, queen, I would do anything to avoid a fight,” said Robert Lacey.

But despite the differences and “modus operandi”, “the queen is deeply disappointed with the way the Conservative Party removed Mrs Thatcher”, said British royal family biographer Hugo Vickers.

Johnson, Brexit and the Queen

many things have changed in the last three decades in England when in 2019Boris Johnson reach Downing Street. It penultimate of the 15 prime ministers Isabel was born when the ruler had ruled for twelve years. “I think the queen likes people with character,” said Camilla Tominey, deputy editor Daily Telegraph.

It The Johnson Government recommends many aspects that contradict Elizabeth’s principles as nationalism, confrontation and division. But he never spoke. Also about Brexitthe most complex historical facts facing Britain in recent times.

“She has shown that she is a wise and experienced woman“

“Very it’s hard to know what the queen is thinking On each political problems“, Tominey vouched for. “He have understood the importance silence, not to express their opinionadds Lacey Those who know her well say she never misses out.

During all this reignsuccess and failure, sorrow and joy had accompanied Isabel. She’s had some sweet moments and some “annus horribilis” and “ha proven that She is a wise and experienced woman.the type of person to rely on in times of crisis,” said Tominey.

“My whole life, long or short, will be dedicated to your service.“

Selflessly, Isabel has fulfilled 70 years of rule. 14 prime ministers and finally number 15 Liz Truss is up a single queen who has fulfilled the word that one day, when he was only 20 years old, he gave to his people: “I declare before you that my whole life, whether long or short, will be dedicated to your service”. And his life is long.

Liz Truss, last prime minister

The last public photo of Queen Elizabeth II was one starring, to be exact, with Liz Truss on Tuesday, September 6th at balmoral residence. There the king officially appointed conservative politics as prime minister, the third woman to occupy 10 Downing Street. This is the first time a British Prime Minister has been appointed at Balmoral Castle as Elizabeth II’s health conditions have prevented her from traveling to Buckingham Palace.

^{*This article was originally published on February 1 and has been updated on September 8 to include the meeting between Elizabeth II and Liz Truss.}