With the passing of the Queen, many think the end is near for the imperial institution she fought so hard for. What realities lie ahead for King Charles III?
expressed his hope that what the British people were witnessing, through the thick glass screens of their flickering black-and-white televisions, was “the beginning of a new Elizabethan age no less renowned than the first”. That second Elizabethan age is now over and its conclusion coincides with another of history’s terminus moments.will take place beyond our shores and, in many ways, those changes are already under way.
It was always fitting that a monarch for whom the Commonwealth came to mean so much became Queen while overseas, in a British colony. That colony, the Kenya of 1952, was then dominated by around 10,000 Europeans who controlled the government, the economy and the best land, particularly in the so-called “White Highlands” in the centre of the country.Photograph: Tim Rooke/Rex/Shutterstock
The “wind of change” that eventually brought about the end of British rule in Kenya was already blowing when Elizabeth II came to the throne. Within a decade of her coronation not just Kenya but also Sudan, Malaya, Ghana, Somaliland, Nigeria, Cyprus, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Sierra Leone, Kuwait and Uganda had all achieved independence.
Yet this shift of consciousness, that has long been bubbling under the surface, had not, until recently, been recognised nor understood within the walls of Buckingham Palace. Theundertaken by the Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge in March of this year starkly revealed the great gulf that exists between the monarchy and many of the people of that Commonwealth – particularly the young.
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