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When Britain’s Queen Elizabeth addresses her nation on Christmas Day it will mark the end of one of the most difficult years of her long reign.
Over the past 12 months, her husband got a police warning for his involvement in a car crash, her grandsons Princes William and Harry publicly fell out and her second son Prince Andrew got ever more entangled in the furor over his links to disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is as bad as it gets for her,” royal biographer Penny Junor told Reuters.
Back in 1992, the queen described an “annus horribilis”, wrecked by the collapse of three of her children’s marriages - including Prince Charles’ to Princess Diana - and the fire that severely damaged her Windsor Castle home.
“She obviously won’t use that phrase again,” said Junor, “but I would suspect in some ways this (year) has been even worse.”
In January, Elizabeth’s 98-year-old husband Prince Philip was involved in a car accident near the family’s Sandringham estate in eastern England. He had to give up his driving license after police gave him a warning for driving without wearing a seat belt.
Grandson Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan faced increasingly hostile stories in the press, culminating in them taking legal action against a number of tabloids. Harry also said he and elder brother Prince William had fallen out, without giving details.
The queen herself was embroiled in political wrangling over Britain’s exit from the European Union, with her suspension of parliament in September at the behest of Prime Minister Boris Johnson ruled unlawful by the country’s top court.
But by far the greatest negativity was generated by the furor over Andrew’s links to Epstein, and accusations the prince had had sex with a 17-year-old girl.
An interview Andrew gave to the BBC in November denying that accusation and any other wrongdoing was cast by the British media as a disaster, leading to him stepping down from public duties. Still, the year may not have been a total catastrophe.
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