The Queen places huge value in the potency of symbols. So, on a day when the world’s attention was focused on Andrew she deployed her most powerful weapon – her presence.
, which medical authorities have put down to suicide.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Andrew are driven from Crathie Kirk Church following the service on August 11, 2019. Picture: Duncan McGlynn/Getty ImagesThe Queen is a woman who places huge value in the potency of symbols. So, on a day when the world’s attention was focused on Andrew she deployed her most powerful weapon – her presence.
But Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor is not simply a mum – she is the Queen. Her very presence carries weight and meaning and by bringing her son to the Sunday service she was putting her maternal devotion before any reservations a monarch might have about the rightness of the gesture. Prince Andrew on November 20, 2019 said he was cancelling his public engagements, due to the public scandal. Picture: Leon Neal, AFP.Yet her handling of the Andrew situation and her decision to take her notorious son to church will surely face considerable scrutiny in the future.
This particular royal foray calls into question the Queen’s judgment and whether she, of all people, let pesky personal emotions overrule her usual political shrewdness. Bottom line: This was a huge miscalculation – of how long this mess would drag on for and how fervent public feeling was.
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