Elizabeth II of England has been a doubly royal character. First, because she has been regal, by official document and performance. Second, because she has managed to remain as she really was, consistent, despite living in times when public figures have been supplanted by her image by living for her. Her coronation was the first televised coronation in history, but she did not live for television or the media. She was fortunate to be able to afford it because she embodied an institution, the Crown, endowed with a stability rooted in history in a country that loves its history and traditions.

Perhaps that is why it has so fascinated the media, which has always paid attention to it, and also the audiovisual world, which has dedicated memorable works to it. She was so real that it was necessary to resort to fiction to try to understand her. And yet, none of these fictions managed to divert her from her way of being and understanding her work.

Perhaps that is why, because it is so stable in times of dissolution, it has been so popular in a wide variety of fields. Indeed, political dissolution was one of the tasks she had to tackle frequently. She has been the queen of the liquidation of the British empire, and she has been able to do it with such integrity that the kingdom has remained alive and stable throughout the process, while managing to maintain a association of former colonies, the Commonwealth, thanks to the intangible attraction exerted by the British style that she embodied to a large extent. Her integrity has had the merit of transmitting a message of stability to a country that has gone from being wary of referendums to holding two during her reign for approve opposite things, such as joining and leaving the European Union.

She has been a woman of moderation in times of excess. Her considerable fortune staff was never for her an occasion for extravagance or boasting, in a world where the excesses of the rich and famous competed in stridency. If around her there has been no lack of scandals, she has not been the occasion of any.

He has also been an eminently familiar figure in an era of growing individualism that puts families at test . His is certainly a very special one, but no less human for that. And he has had to deal with no small difficulties to keep it stable and united, changing and at the same time faithful to his mission statement. This is another of the elements that have contributed to her popularity by joining to her political mission statement the character of symbolic representation of the British families. The difficult family history of her successor, the current King Charles of England, does not augur an easy time for the continuity of the institution precisely because of the difference between his trajectory and that of his mother.

Elizabeth II has also shown herself to be faithful in the midst of the exaltation of fickleness. That, perhaps, has been one of her greatest successes. That loyalty to herself and to what her people represent, together with her long continuity over time, have made her an institution that went beyond British borders and turned her into a symbol of an era. Often, of the best of an era.

She has also been a queen with a transcendent sense in the midst of an atmosphere of secularization and disenchantment. And she has been so natural that no one has wanted or dared to challenge her attitude and beliefs. Even mockery seemed to magnify her, thus reflecting one of the most characteristic attributes of divinity. Perhaps that is why she has also been resistant to rebuffs and misfortunes. She has managed to rise above them with lordliness, something much more desirable and grandiose than empowerment.

Like all human beings, she has made mistakes and, like the best of us, she has learned from them. This has made her extraordinarily useful in her political official document : she has been able to coexist with very different prime ministers and governments, in easy and less easy times, and she has known how to be in her arbitral and symbolic role, patient and firm, thus rendering a service that politicians and citizens have been grateful for.

He has also shown himself to be aware of his limitations. There were things she could not do, matters that she could not manage, and she bowed to the reality of the facts. This gave her a certain aroma of humility that made her attractive.

For all these reasons, I think that Elizabeth II of England has been for her time a figure of great solidity, a point of reference letter, a rock. The fact that this happened in times when society was losing firmness and becoming more and more liquid, has accentuated the contrast that has made her stand out.