Queen Elizabeth II failed utterly in her most important duties:
1) she did not produce a suitable heir (even William openly shacked up with his future wife)
2) she has lead her church to become a New Age multicultural gay yoga club
First, William isn’t her heir. He’s her son’s heir.
Second, she’s hardly a dictator. If anyone could have instilled the duty value into her own offspring, she would’ve been the one. There’s no more inescapable example of devotion to duty, honor, country than her life and reign. But her children did not absorb that when it came to their personal lives. They did do so when it came to serving in Britain’s military.
Charles put Camilla first. Married a very young girl who was deeply in love with him, while remaining in love with Camilla, and Diana was emotionally fragile and went nuts over it.
Andrew married Fergie, of all people, and was himself a playboy type.
Edward apparently has done the most expected thing, marrying and living quietly as far as what we hear, although many thought that wouldn’t happen because to them he seemed the “gay” type. But Edward is irrelevant.
Ann, whose personal life was messed up, even more irrelevant.
If you think the queen had dictator like clout, because as head of the royals she could’ve controlled their decisions and behaviors by threatening to cut off their allowances or exile them from the family, you don’t understand it doesn’t work that way. Once you’ve gone public with something like that, the entire royal mystique is ruined and people say to **** with the lot of you.
As for the church of England, she’s the head of it about like she’s the head of the government...oh wait, she’s really not.
She’s the SYMBOLIC head of it.
There was a thread recently how the queen is totally absent from the gay rights debate. She has never once recognized that there are such people whose status is based on their sexual orientation. And they predict she never will. That speaks for how she really feels, because she speaks of all sorts of other groups of her subjects all the time.
What amazes people about her is that no matter the chaos or conditions around her, family or society, she “carries on”.
And that’s how she has preserved the monarchy.
Which is her real duty, as she saw it, and did it.
1) she did not produce a suitable heir (even William openly shacked up with his future wife)
While imperfect, the Future Duke and Duchess were making the best of a bad situation. Had they just been a normal couple without the inherent problems of Royalty and modern celebrity culture on their relationship, they would have been married years ago.
2) she has lead her church to become a New Age multicultural gay yoga club
You can't put that on the Queen. While nominally apppointed by her, the bishops are actually nominated by a committee which sends a nominee to the Prime Minster, who then sends it to the Queen. She has no direct control of the process.