Who knows how many times, in the last six months, Kate Middleton he imagined his return to the public. And who knows if the love and support she received last Saturday lived up to her expectations or if she could have imagined better. The world was eagerly awaiting the return to public activities of the Princess of Wales and what happened on Saturday during the parade Trooping the Colour it was unrepeatable. Kensington Palace immediately wanted to make it clear that the participation of the wife of the Prince William at the public event on the occasion of the birthday of King Charles III it is not an official return to commitments. But it's a first step.
And it is above all because the Crown he needs her. Beyond the welcome given to Catherine Middleton, who has been undergoing preventive chemotherapy for three months to try to avoid the risk of abdominal tumor recurrence, there is a deeper analysis that must be done on the role of the wife of the future king of England. And it is useful to do it starting from the balcony of Buckingham Palace from which the royal family looked out at the end of the parade. All his eyes were focused on the right portion of that balcony, where the Prince of Wales was together with his entire family. The future king, in the red dress uniform from Colonel of the Irish Guardsthe future queen, in total white and their three children, perfectly matching their mother's look.
For those few minutes, the world forgot about Kate Middleton's chemotherapy and admired the young family who, in the not too distant future, will be at the head of the world's oldest monarchy. Middleton the bourgeois, the careerist, the social climber: Over the years, William's wife has had to suffer the worst allegations about him. It wasn't easy for her to gain acceptance: from a member of the provincial English middle class to a member of the royal family in the highest rank. Yet, today the Princess of Wales embodies the values and characteristics of the ancient Windsor family more than any other member of her family, even if she is not by blood. With Prince William the fit is perfect: he has institutionalized she, she has humanized him and the result was there for everyone to see on that balcony. He, granite, born to command, to guide the nation. She, maternal but adamant, determined to keep the family strong.
If the English monarchy has managed to overcome the turmoil of the last five years, including the death of Queen Elizabeth II, unshakable column of a dusty institution, which seemed destined to be cannibalized by modernity, is also, but above all, thanks to Kate Middleton. Her entry into the royal family gave the world a new tale to follow, gave the subjects a new marble certainty, which is no longer the impenetrability of the monarchy but its humanity. And it is not wrong to say that, today, much of the weight of the monarchy rests on the shoulders of the Princes of Wales, in particular the Princess.
And this is precisely what the subjects of the Kingdom demonstrated, with all the strength they were capable of, who cried, cheered and applauded as it passed last Saturday. God save the Kingbut also a little the princess of Wales.