London trip fuels campaign?
known the monarch for decades, said the Queen had a clear demarcation between her public duties and private life and her summer breaks at Balmoral in Scotland were a moment for ‘‘her enjoyment’’.
Her tribute to her motherinlaw was aired on Sunday (local time) on the BBC, shortly before the national minute’s silence at 8pm.
Speaking about her wedding day on April 9, 2005, the Queen Consort said: ‘‘I remember coming from here, Clarence House, (to) go to Windsor the day I got married when I probably wasn’t firing on all cylinders, quite nervous and, for some unknown reason, I put on a pair of shoes and one had an inch heel and one had a twoinch heel.
‘‘So, I mean talk about hopalong and there’s nothing I could do. I was halfway down in the car before I realised and you know, she — she could see and laughed about it and said, ‘look, I’m terribly sorry’ and she did, you know, she had a good sense of humour.’’
The late monarch was never happier than when visiting her thoroughbreds at the royal stud or watching them race and Camilla commented on her ‘‘passion for racing’’.
The Queen Consort said: ‘‘She was able to escape to Sandringham. She had the stud next door. She could go every day, see her foals, work out you know, the next meetings for the year. I think she always kept that as you know, her, her private bit.
‘‘You wouldn’t dare question her or argue with her on how horse are bred or how it ran because you’d get a very steely blueeyed look back again.’’ — Reuters/BPA
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was accused by opposition figures yesterday of turning his trip to London for the Queen’s funeral into an election campaign event.
Bolsonaro flew to London just two weeks before the October 2 firstround vote, in which he trails in opinion polls to his leftist rival, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In an address to his supporters from the balcony of the Brazilian embassy, Bolsonaro touched briefly on the Queen’s legacy, before accusing the Opposition of trying to implant communism in South America’s largest country.
‘‘We’re a country that doesn’t want drug liberalisation, that doesn’t want to talk about legalising abortion and that doesn’t accept ‘gender ideology’,’’ the farright former army captain said.
Reuters reported last week that Bolsonaro’s campaign hoped to use his trip to project the image of a respectable statesman with international support.
He will go to New York later this week to make an address at the annual United Nations General Assembly. — Reuters