"We will meet again!"

The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II addressed the emergency to the peoples of the countries of the Commonwealth

“We must be comforted by the fact that, although we still have to survive, the best days will return: we will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again,“ We ​​Will Meet Again, ”Elizabeth II remembered the words from the legendary British song of the beginning of the Second World War, with which we escorted to the front.

Such a reminder in the lips of Her Majesty means a lot.

“I hope,” said Elizabeth II, “in the future everyone will be able to be proud of how the current difficulties have met. And those who come for us will say that the current generation of the British was strong, like all the previous ones. That self-discipline, calm good-natured determination and sympathy for neighbor are still part of the national character of Britain. ”

Back in mid -March, the queen wished to turn to the nation - to support, help endure and win. “The queen is always preparing speeches herself,” the former press secretary of the Buckingham Palace Dicky Arbiter told the Air Force, “making notes and picking up keywords.” There is no protocol for emergency performances, since there is no such form itself.

There were only four such appeals in almost seven decades of her ministry as the head of state. The current appeal is a tribute to the shocks that, as she herself formulated, “brought woe to some, financial difficulties to many and huge changes in everyday life to all of us.”

The Queen of Great Britain sincerely thanked the employees of the National Health Service and everyone who works today in advanced positions. And separately everyone who stayed at home, despite the beautiful weather. The spring day on this Sunday was absolutely wonderful in London - a cloudless sky, a warm wind and for the first time this year +18 degrees.

Most British newspapers carried the headlines from the Queen’s speech on the first lane, and the multi -tying conservative “Daily Telegraph” appreciated her performance:

“In 523 words, the queen gave us comfort, hope and determination, in which we need more now than ever . ”

In the pandan, the American “The Los Angeles Times” answered her: “Why can't Trump be at least a little like a queen?”

Even on the eve of the broadcast (the recording was made in a couple of days in compliance with all precautions - together with the spouse, Korolev is in self -isolation, and their eldest son, Prince Charles, who turned 71 years old, had just suffered coronavirus), the large parts of the performances were published by the Buckingham Palace. In the networks, the text is pretty "plowed." People grumbled that they would suit them only if the queen shares her income, that she should dismiss the failed government. “The nation is strong, as always,” someone on the Web complained bitterly, “and the nurses and doctors instead of special protection put on their head plastic bags for garbage!”

Grumbled and waited. The speech was watched by almost 24 million British. (For comparison, Christmas appeals of the head of state gain 5-8 million views).

The British love and appreciate their queen. According to YouGov, 73 percent of citizens (among the post -war generation - even 81 percent) positively estimate its activities, and negatively - only 10. Republican ideas are unpopular in Britain, according to various surveys, only 13-18 percent of the British share them. Perhaps this is, first of all, thanks to the personality of Her Majesty.

She is the last monarch in the world, which was formed during the Second World War: she learned on a mechanical driver and at the end of the war, albeit not on the battlefield, drove sanitary trucks.

Today, the royal family has many roles: constitutional, ceremonial, charitable. Elizabeth II - a cartridge of about 600 charitable organizations, attracts funds to various noble affairs and observes their activities.

But this queen has another important feature, which, unlike titles and wealth, is not inherited.

It can be earned only by faithful service to the people, fulfilling the duty firmly and tirelessly. And then the symbol of the nation can help people become more noble and stronger in the most difficult minute, as Elizabeth II again succeeded on Sunday.

Her Majesty remembered the nation in turn to the nation, as in 1940, in the midst of massive Nazi London's Nazi bombing, she and her sister for the first time (she was 14 years old, sister - 10) recorded the radio program “Children's Hour” to reassure children who were evacuated to rural areas for security purposes. (With the precisely such departure of children from under London bombing, the magical English story of Clive Lewis “Leo, Sorceress and a wardrobe” begins, which turned over over the years into the wonderful famous fairy-tale epic “Chronicles of Narnia”). “Today again many are experiencing a painful sense of separation from loved ones. But even now, as then, we deep down we know that we are doing the right thing, ”said the queen.

This was not a politician who always thinks about the elections, and not a mother-education, who soothes frightened children.

This was the speech of a statesman - a man who survived the war, a change of eras, the collapse and disappearance of the empire, 14 prime ministers and 13 presidents of the United States, who survived, remaining at the post. Therefore, such a word is expensive.

PS

On Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported that over the last day in the UK, another 621 cases of death associated with coronavirus were registered.

47,806 people recorded a positive result of the test for the virus.