Bereavement “ international », notes The Parisian in the face of the extent of the emotion which is manifested well beyond the borders of the United Kingdom, after the disappearance of Queen Elizabeth II. Because this sovereign who has just passed away at the age of 96 and who will have reigned for 70 years, “ was also queen of a people far beyond British borders, reports this newspaper. And we saw the Canadian Prime Minister mourn this “person he admired most in the world », rugby players dedicate a haka in Auckland or anonymous lay flowers in front of embassies in all capitals. Planetary mourning, therefore, but also mourning is historical. There won’t be another “, sighs this daily.
” The emotion is unanimous, confirmed Le Figaro. From the anonymous to the powerful, from the leaders of Communist China to the Emperor of Japan, expressions of sympathy poured in from everywhere; one could almost speak of love. The Kenyan president hailed a “huge icon of selfless service”. Tears flowed, sports competitions were suspended, the bells of every cathedral in the UK rang. Rock children terrible – some of them ennobled – have expressed their feeling of being orphaned. The old lady who died aged 96 in the shadows of Balmoral Castle was probably the most mysterious and admired personality on the planet “, still states Le Figaroin a tribute by Une to this sovereign “ that the whole world applauds “.
The (dis)United Kingdom
And this morning, in London, Charles, eldest son of the deceased queen, will be proclaimed king of a country, certainly united in mourning, but a kingdom having in fact little more united than the name. Charles III? He’s a king” of transition “, estimates the daily Release, on the front page of which the new king appears, gray hair and open arms. The opening, precisely. ” Will it usher in an era of returning to earth for the British? “, asks himself Freed. Because today, the United Kingdom is ” weaker than ever, economically weakened, socially on the embers. The unity of the kingdom is more fragile than ever. Commonwealth membership continues to crack “, highlighted Release.
Le Figaro hardly write anything else. The accession of King Charles III occurs within a kingdom “fragilized “, points out this newspaper, discerning in the arrival of Liz Truss at the head of the British government” an illustration of the many cracks that crack the land “.
This daily reviews the essential aspects of the crisis that is shaking the kingdom. Political crisis, first, with an exhausted parliamentary system. There “ mother of parliaments », « quick to give lessons in matters of democracy to the rest of the world, has for several years offered a spectacle reminiscent of the political instability of Italy or that of the Fourth Republic in France “, remark Le Figaro ; economic and social crisis, then, with “ record poverty in Europe” and the pound sterling “at its lowest level against the dollar since 1985 » ; health crisis, again, which makes access to medicine, even to emergencies, ” Harder and harder » ; identity crisis latent, finally, with Scotland, Northern Ireland and even Wales tormented by irredentism. ” Inside his kingdom, Charles will have to prove that he can be the cement that embodied his mother. », warns Le Figaro. Which daily, obviously, has some doubt, noting that a new 73-year-old king ” is not necessarily the most obvious sign of renewal “.
From rififi to the football federation
According to anonymous testimonies published by the magazine SoFootemployees of the French Football Federation claim to have received sexual messages from the president of the FFF Noël Le Graët, this periodical claiming that several women have thus resigned from the body in recent years because they felt “ sexually harassed, but also morally within this federation. SoFoot also assures that sexism would be “ raised to the rank of art » at the FFF where a seminar on « the issue of sexist humor was organized in 2016.