12/09/2022
12/09/2022
THE heart of the late Elizabeth stopped on 9/8/2022. Sorrow engulfed the kingdom, and people flocked to Buckingham Palace, laying roses, while others were crying because of their excessive love for her. It is worth to mention that the late came to UK Throne and accompanied with more than one memory in the life of this queen, the longestreigning of the British monarchs, and the longest sitting on the throne, and all of them are memories of major constitutional changes, the most important of which was what it witnessed in the sixties and seventies of the last century when Great Britain granted independence to 20 of its colonies, thus becoming influential countries on the global map. It is credited for this queen, according to Lord Monbatten, her opposition to the British, French and Israeli attempts to occupy the Suez Canal in 1956.
That is, the reign of this queen practically witnessed the consolidation of various relations of Britain with the countries of the world, which was reflected internally by the monarchy gaining popular support, and externally with what her country began to enjoy among the world. Peoples, even those that were subject to its colonial administration (the Commonwealth countries) in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, and even the person of this queen gained a strong and wide popular acceptance among her subjects. And if it was famous in the past to describe Britain as a United Kingdom as the empire whose possessions the sun does not set, it can be described now, and in the shadow of this queen with a shadow that extended for more than seven decades, as the kingdom from which the sun of the virtues of her royal era has not yet disappeared, just as royal covenants were absent in other empires and countries that lacked equal virtues and stability, whether those that preceded their existence or those that coincided with them. In calculating the causes and results that gave the United Kingdom this character, we can of course refer to the distinction of the British constitutional system in its transformation since ancient times towards a democratic system that preserved the status and rights of the various groups of the people on the one hand, and preserved the royal family’s position and rights on the other hand, thus becoming more firmly established and empowered , but it is not possible to overlook the personal characteristics of a number of its kings, especially in the last century, which gave this system more human features, and erased deformities of the monarchy in older ages.
In this context, Queen Elizabeth II occupies an important position, not only because of the popularity she enjoys in her country, and in the many countries that she was keen to visit, unlike her previous kings, but also because of the positions that characterized her, such as her position on the adventure of occupying the Suez Canal As well as Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait in 1990, which resolutely confronted this aggression and delivered several speeches calling for peace, and its personal relations with many heads of state who preserved the Queen and her covenant the most sincere signs of friendship and respect. On this painful occasion, I offer my condolences to the royal family, the friendly British people, and the British Ambassador to Kuwait, Her Excellency Belinda Lewis.
Also we extend our congratulations to H.M. King Charles III on the occasion of ascending the throne, hoping all success in enhancing the world peace which is subject to hard storms of international interests, hoping also that our relations with UK shall be stronger as it was before on the basis of mutual respect and common interests that serve the two parties, the Kuwaiti and the British, and there is no escape for this or that party except with sincere treatment and sincere intentions, and for the United Kingdom to remain the destination of the oppressed and persecuted in their countries because of the breezes of freedom that the country of fog enjoys and respect for the human being as a human being under oppression and displacement and the provisions of unjust imprisonment is not because its owners committed a crime, but rather they expressed their free opinion and carried an enlightened thought that clashed in the light of the mentality of the dark ages in which they live. Every dissenting opinion is considered a crime, so the United Kingdom was the land of peace and a safe haven for them.
By Youssef Mubarak Al Mubaraki
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