Despite the fact that the public has always tried to remain calm in the face of the dramas, Queen Elizabeth II harbors a deep disappointment in her heart. Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward are the monarch’s four offspring. Three of them were so disappointing to the Queen that she was on the verge of giving up. What is the root of the problem?
Three of Queen Elizabeth’s children have disappointed her.
According to a new biography of the royal family, Queen Elizabeth was “extremely” upset when three of her children’s marriages ended in divorce.
In his book “Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II,” Robert Hardman said, “As always on the outside, Regina has found rumors of divorce very disturbing.” “Another former Household member recalls that there was a flicker of melancholy now and then.”
Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, the monarch’s two 95-year-old sons, and her daughter, Princess Anne, are divorced. As a result, Prince Edward is the Queen’s sole child who has never experienced a divorce.
According to People, a former royal staff member confessed to writer Robert Hardman that the Queen was far more “grieved” than she had ever seen.
“‘Ma’am, this (n.r. divorce) appears to be happening everywhere,’ I said. “This is basically standard procedure,” the former employee stated, adding, “But she just said, ‘Three out of four!'” No one should undervalue the suffering he endured.”
Even when the marriages of Charles, Andrew, and Anne fell apart in 1992, her former press secretary, Charles Anson, stated in the book that Queen Elizabeth remained calm.
“I don’t recall ever going up to her and telling her, “No!” ‘Where do we go from here?’ Hardman was informed by Anson. “It was just brought to our attention at the time. Working with someone who isn’t down is incredibly reassuring in such instances.
Despite the events, Queen Elizabeth maintained her composure.
Hardman noted that the employees were impressed by the Queen’s ability to deal with the very public drama that surrounded Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s marriage.
“Her mother’s tactic in these instances – to carry on as if nothing had happened,” Hardman said, “earned her the moniker ‘imperial ostrich’ among the royal servants.” “As always, the Queen’s response was to follow her father’s lead, absorbed in her days at sea, and to handle adversity as if it were the ocean.”
He continued, ” “Although the queen has been accused of behaving slowly on occasion, she has never been accused of panic. Her default response to a crisis is to remain calm.”
“The storms will come and go, with some being worse than others,” former British Prime Minister John Major told Hardman. “She will, however, always bow her head and go over them. “This, too, shall pass,” the queen has always believed.”
Following his infidelity scandal with Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he married in 2005, Prince Charles, 73, and the late Diana divorced in 1996 after 15 years of marriage. When Charles becomes king, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will be known as the “Consort Queen.”
Princess Anne, who is 71 years old, was married to Mark Phillips from 1973 to 1992. In 1992, she remarried Timothy Laurence.
From 1986 to 1996, Prince Andrew was married to Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Since then, he’s been charged with sexual assault. Since 1999, Prince Edward, the Queen’s son, has been married to Sophie, Countess of Wessex.