[…]The meaning of the Commonwealth today is a matter of dispute, but for a long time the Commonwealth was a symbol of the “soft power” of Great Britain. Elizabeth herself personified this stage of using intangible, gentle, but powerful power. It was a calm symbol of continuity and reassurance during the animosity at home. Britain may have dismantled its empire more easily than other European powers, but at home there have been waves of unrest, from bitter industrial struggles in the 1970s and 1980s to an undeclared civil war in Northern Ireland that lasted two decades and killed thousands.

Britain became a hotbed of social experimentation in the 1960s, and has perhaps never ceased to be at the forefront of innovation since then. This sparked a burst of cultural activity that was perhaps most acutely felt in the outpouring of popular music from the 1960s to the 1980s. Changes in other areas of life were less harmonious.

The role of the queen as a unifier and a symbol of the ancient values ​​of service, duty and restraint acquired special importance. These values ​​are today anathema by the American-imported Woke revolution, an attitude aimed at overcoming the mythical oppression of various minorities, replacing this supposedly dark night of today with mitokans and rogue rules that will supposedly lead the world to a bright path. a new era of progressive freedom.[…]

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