From infrastructure to policing, energy and girls’ education, British aid has helped Nepal’s development endeavors. The UK is one of the largest development partners of Nepal. Nepal-UK relations span for more than 200 years. Tens of thousands of Gurkhas fought for the Crown in theaters of war around the world, many of them winning VCs and other bravery awards. “She was so sympathetic and spoke with her subjects and visitors with love, warmth and empathy,” said a former QG, who has been promoted as a Gurkha Major and did not want to give his name. Two Queen’s Gurkha (QG) Captains always stood behind the Queen and her ADC during the investiture ceremonies. Making the institution relevant will be the greatest test of the British monarchy, which has been changing to a great extent along with the changing times. “Not only people from the UK and Commonwealth, I have the feeling that people from across the world loved and respected her,” said Lachhya Gurung, a former Gurkha and former Deputy Mayor of London Borough of Barnet. The Queen’s great achievement was to honor the commitment she made to an imperial nation and its empire as a princess even as it became a multiethnic state and a Commonwealth,” wrote Tom McTague in The Atlantic magazine.Įven in the late nineties, she would enjoy cutting ribbons, meeting people from all walks of life and chatting with them. “Queen Elizabeth was a constitutional monarch, not a political leader with real powers, and one who was required to serve an ever-changing set of realms, peoples, institutions, and ideas that were no longer as obviously compatible as they had been when she ascended to the throne.
She resumed her public duties days after her husband, Prince Philip, died last year. It was quite heartening,’’ he added.Īnalysts say Queen Elizabeth’s main legacy has been her devotion to the nation and people and her sense of duty. “Even those who could not stand in the line for so long came to show their solidarity towards us. But, Ravi Jung Lamichhane, a London-based businessman and philanthropist who queued for up to 13 hours on Sunday to pay his respect to the late Queen, said he saw people of all ages, colors, from all corners of the UK and abroad queuing up to pay their respect to the late monarch. Photo: Reutersįor King Charles III, keeping the country with much more racial and cultural diversity unified would be one of the major challenges. After a succession of crises–Brexit, Covid-19, partygate, four prime ministers in six years–now one of the last symbols of stability is gone with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II,” commented The Guardian newspaper. “Britain is living through times of great change. The ratio of young to old is 1.4 and falling. The population since has grown to 67 million, and aged. According to The Economist, in 1953, of 50.6 million people in Britain, only eight million were 60 or older–a ratio of 2.7 to one.
But, lately, its former colony, India, has superseded it by pushing the UK to the sixth position. When Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne in 1952, Britain was the third largest economy in the world. Like the rest of the world, Britain has changed a lot over the last 70 years. We all were,” said US President Joe Biden after arriving in London during the weekend. “To all the people of England, all the people of the United Kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had her for 70 years. Though the British got a new monarch without much hassle, the void left behind by the death of the 96-year-old monarch, who reigned for 70 years, will be difficult to fill in, if not impossible. The death of the longest reigning monarch in British history was bound to create a big void in the national psyche.
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