'The Queen's faith gave her humility and perspective as she knew she answered to a higher power' ✍️ CPsPepTalk for ipaperviews
You might remember how, on December 31, 1999, the Queen marked the Millennium with the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and other public figures, in the Millennium Dome, singing along to Auld Lang Syne. Her expression suggested she wasn’t very impressed by the New Labour Cool Britannia vibe.
She was also explicit about her own beliefs in a book published in 2016, to mark the Queen’s ninetieth birthday by the Bible Society. Called The Servant Queen and the King She Serves, it most unusually had a foreward written by the Queen herself. The acknowledgement of other faiths was also apparent in her more recent Christmas messages, recognising, as she did in 2004, that “every religion has something to say about tolerance and respecting others”.
It was as if she saw the Church of England as a kind of umbrella, under which others could shelter – hardly the view of Henry VIII when he founded that Church and rejected Roman Catholicism and the power of the pope. Elizabeth II was queen during an era of not so much widespread Christian devotion but spiritual curiosity. It was a curiosity that her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh expressed frequently, who questioned intensely clerics and other faith leaders that he encountered about their beliefs.
But in recent years he has been more vocal in his concerns about Christianity, particularly its adherents who have suffered terrible persecution in places such as Syria and Iraq. He has regularly met victims of the persecution and has been known to make discreet donations to help them.
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