The Queen's Secret (2)

In the previous episode, we talked on the formation of Britain and its political regime. This time we will dwell upon the coming to power of Elizabeth II, the 93-year-old queen of the country.

Between the two World Wars, in the waning days of the British colonialist power, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in London on April 21, 1926. In those days, nobody imagined that the newborn girl would one day become the Queen of the country. Her father Albert was the second son of George V. In 1936, George V died and his elder son Edward became the king as Edward VIII. The new king fell in love with and wanted to marry with a divorced American woman called Wallis Simpson. However, according to the British Church, the second marriage was possible only when the former spouse had died. But Simpson's husband was alive and she was not allowed to marry again.

This was not the first time that the marriage of the English king was making a problem. In the 16thcentury, Henry VIII faced problem when he wanted to divorce his wife and marry with another woman; since in those days, the English obeyed the Roman Catholic church which deemed divorce as forbidden. Thus, the king separated the English church from the papal authority and called himself as the head of religion in England; hence he decreed the permission for divorce. His chief minister was executed due to his opposition to the action.

The licentiousness of Edward VIII coupled with the reports of the British intelligence staff on the immorality of Wallis Simpson caused scandal for the residents of Buckingham Palace. Edward VIII would oppose the policies of the British government, too. The prime minister's threatening on resignation of the cabinet and reluctance of the parties to form a government forced Edward to resign on December10, 1936. Thus, his brother Albert ascended the throne as George VI. Now Elizabeth was the heir apparent of Britain. Three years after the breakout of WWII, Europe and some other countries were plunged in war.

Buckingham Palace is the residence of the British royal family. With an area of 77 thousand square meters, it has 775 rooms, 760 windows, 1514 doors and 800 personnel. Behind the doors, a woman lives who has been the longest reigning monarch and everything in Britain leads to her. Britain or United Kingdom is the name given to a land which comprises England and the usurped lands of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Elizabeth II is considered the queen of the Commonwealth countries (aka the lands which had long been colonized on gunpoint during the last centuries). Some of these colonies got their independence and possessed separate government and parliament; while the head state is considered the chief political person in their system and exercises its influence on them through the appointment of a governor general. The governor general is indeed the representative of the Queen in the country and enjoys a position superior to that of the prime minister of the country. These are called the Commonwealth countries. Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Canada and Granada are among these countries. All of these countries are under London's influence especially while voting in the UN.

MI6 is one of the most horrific intelligence apparatuses in the world. The British media pretend that this apparatus is working under the government and the Queen has no influence on them while in reality it is the tool in the hand of the Queen and has staged many coups in different countries. Perhaps Iran was the first country where the British Queen thought of wielding her trans-border power. In 1953, Britain in complicity with the US, toppled the legal government of Mohammad Mosaddeq and reinstated the Shah. After the coup, the British Queen entered the scene in 1961 in favor of the coup leaders and the illegal despotic regime of Shah. She came to Iran to show that she was ready to preserve the Iranian monarchy at any cost.

Egypt was the second destination of the Queen's intervention abroad. Gamal Abdel Nasser annulled monarchy and nationalized the Suez Canal after taking power. Both of the governments of Iran and Egypt were opposed to the illegal Zionist regime of Israel. Iran severed political ties with Israel and Abdel Nasser intended to bring Israel to its knees. Was the Queen supporting the royal system in Egypt? In response, it should be said that shortly after the nationalization of the Suez Canal, the British Royal Army fought alongside France and Israel against Egypt with the permission of Elizabeth II. The onslaught of the colonialist countries against the Egyptian nation caused grave scandal for the Queen. The designation of Harold Macmillan to premiership by the Queen, without referring to the votes of the conservative majority party, stirred ample criticism against the Queen. In 1963, with the resignation of Macmillan, the Queen appointed Alec Douglas-Home as the next prime minister. Thus, the Queen showed that the appointment and dismissal of ministers is actually in the hand of the Queen and she doesn’t consider it necessary to abide by the majority vote.