Quattro minuti di discorso, solo cinque discorsi in 68 anni di Regno, tutti concentrati negli ultimi 30: dal 1991 ad oggi. La Regina d’Inghilterra parla agli Inglesi, i suoi 125milioni di sudditi, ma in realtà parla al mondo. Ma cosa deve succedere affinchè Sua Maestà senta il bisogno di parlare ai sudditi? Senza dubbio un gran casino: perchè l’unico giorno in cui The Queen parla regolarmente al popolo è a Natale.
Era il 1991 quando The Queen si rivolgeva ai suoi sudditi per spiegare la Guerra del Golfo e lo spiegamento dei militari Inglesi in un paese lontano e abbastanza sconosciuto come il Qwait. Primo ministro di allora era Margaret Thatcher.
Il 1997 é l’anno del tunnel dell’Almà. Muore Diana Spencer, per tutti Lady D. Il Paese, ma anche il mondo, è e scioccato. Serve la mano della sovrana. Ed é il secondo discorso do sempre.
Nel 2002 un altra scomparsa porta Sua Maestà a parlare ai sudditi: il doveroso omaggio alla Regina Madre, morta a 101 anni.
Nel 2012 si celebrano i 60 del regno di Elisabetta. É il Giubileo della Corona. L’Inghilterra ha qualcosa da festeggiare.
E nel 2020 il dramma del Coronavirus. Sono solo 4 minuti di registrazione.
“Vi parlo in un tempo che so essere di crescente difficoltà: un tempo di sconvolgimento nella vita del nostro Paese che ha portato dolore ad alcuni, problemi economici a molti ed enormi cambiamenti nella vita quotidiana di tutti noi”.
“Io spero che coloro che verranno dopo di noi possano dire dei Britannici di questa generazione che sono stati forti”. “E che gli attributi d’autodisciplina, calma, determinazione amabile e fratellanza siano caratterizzino ancora questo Paese”.
“Voglio ringraziare chi resta a casa” rivolgendo anche un grazie a chi lavora nel servizio sanitario nazionale (Nhs) ed elogiando l’applauso collettivo rivolto loro dai britannici. La regina ha ricordato il tempo della II Guerra Mondiale, parlando oggi di una sfida “diversa”.
“Prevarremo e la vittoria apparterrà a ciascuno di noi. Dobbiamo confortarci pensando, mentre abbiano ancora di che sopportare, che giorni migliori torneranno: che saremo di nuovo con i nostri amici, saremo di nuovo con le nostre famiglie e ci incontreremo ancora”.
Note curiose: mentre la Regina parlava il Primo Ministro Boris Johnson, quello dell’immunità di gregge, veniva ricoverato in ospedale perchè i suoi sintomi da Coronavirus non accennano a passare.
Per chi invece fosse appassionato dai discorsi della Regina può essere piacevole leggere “The Queen’s Speech” di Ingrid Seward.
Ecco il testo del Discorso originale diffuso da Buckingham Palace.
I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time. A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.
I want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all. I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.
I also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones. Together we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it.
I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. And those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any. That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country. The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.
The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.
Across the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people coming together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or converting businesses to help the relief effort.
And though self-isolating may at times be hard, many people of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation.
It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister. We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety. Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.
While we have faced challenges before, this one is different. This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.
I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time. A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.
I want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all. I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.
I also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones. Together we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it.
I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any. That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country. The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.
The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.
Across the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people coming together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or converting businesses to help the relief effort.
And though self-isolating may at times be hard, many people of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation.
It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister. We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety. Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.
While we have faced challenges before, this one is different. This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.
We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.
But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.
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