In advance of her brother’s coronation yesterday, Princess Anne gave a rare interview to CBS Australia. The princess described how “touching” and “impressive” it was to see thousands of people lining the roads to pay their last respects to their mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as a hearse transported her body from Balmoral to Edinburgh. Princess Anne noted the rural communities who, in their attention to detail, had cleaned their tractors and plaited their horses’ manes.
When her interviewer asked whether she was concerned about “relevance,” or the future of the monarchy, she gave a firm “No.” According to Anne, “the monarchy provides, with the constitution, a degree of long-term stability that is actually quite hard to come by any other way.” It would appear the British public agrees. Polling conducted after the queen’s death shows majority support for constitutional monarchy, with less than a quarter against.
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