. Queen Elizabeth II is 90: Ruling by self-control – Tagesspiegel

scoffers say, the tough Windsors are therefore as old, because their liver is almost done as far back as durable in quality gin. Queen Mum has celebrated her 101st birthday. And when the daughter, Queen Elizabeth II., Now 90 years old and dissolve this occasion in Hyde Park 41 gun salute from the tubes historic World War cannons and London stage the long reverberation of the monarchy, then Queen Elizabeth II. The oldest reigning Queen of the world.

“the Queen”, she is alone. It does indeed merely a grammatical item which is determined as the woman herself, already it is clear who is meant. England is a class society and the Queen is again a class of its own. Her 90 years will now there like a block of superlatives. The anniversaries are long diamonds, is 68 years married to Prince Philip and 64 years with the throne.

There live only a few in the country that have experienced it without them. You know them as owner of numerous Corgis, mistress of fabulously low-paid employees, mother of the heir Charles, Head of 16 Commonwealth countries, tireless graduate of trips abroad in 117 countries they know them as Hutträgerin and lady sending their handbags signals , Each sticky stamp with her image, the anleckt a subject backwards, the monarchy holds together. 90th appear special stamps. There are countless Queen’s pubs and colleges and Roads, every coin, every bill carries her image in the country.

Never sank the Queen to the level of their commemorative cups

No British comedy comes without jokes on from Queen, but she’s the Queen. Amid the mass of memorabilia porcelain private occasions, in the middle of the calendar, dish towels and angulation dolls she has never sunk to the level of their China-made commemorative mugs. May the monarchy between wit and dignity commute, her personal Ernst in office is sacred, never gives the feeling that it has a role and perhaps wanted something else from life. Finally, comes from the pre-ironic age, seriously prepared for this strange, strange life with a single, unique task for which it is actually not an example and strictly speaking, is there any use in the modern present. Last year, she has – recently superlative – Queen Victoria overtaken: In the 1,000 years of history of the Kingdom has the longest reign

Only: What can they actually prevail.? What exactly is their dominion? Is it not powerless qua Constitution? When Elizabeth is morning brought on 21 April 1926 against three by Caesarean section in their future Kingdom, since it is still far from the throne. For the fourth birthday she gets a collection building blocks, made of wood of all Empire countries. But then dispensed Edward VIII. For the love of the extravagant American Wallis Simpson on the throne. The monarchy fluctuates, her father George VI. jumps. At age eleven, white “Lilibeth” Elizabeth that her flowers the throne.