Confined alone in Windsor Castle, with her husband Philip still in hospital and waiting to hear Meghan Markle’s vitriolic comments on TV, Queen Elizabeth has been receiving only bad news for some time. The latest comes from the Ministry of Defense: budget cuts will force the Royal Air Force to deprive it of the aircraft it had for its travels. When she, or her son Charles with his wife Camilla, or the Dukes of Cambridge William and Kate, have to make a long journey, they will be forced either to use scheduled flights or to borrow the Union Flag, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plane. just polished at a cost of £ 900,000.
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On March 18, the government will announce the cuts it will have to make to the Ministry of Defense, which will result in a reduction in the number of personnel in each department and the renunciation of many transport and combat aircraft, in addition to the cutting of the operations of numerous ships in the fleet. Could all this be forsaken by leaving the Queen and her family the privilege of continuing to own a private air fleet, the Queen’s Fleet? Certainly not. The Daily Mail revealed that the decision has already been made. The four BAE-146 jets that still remained at the Royal Family’s disposal will be sold for cash, or more likely scrapped, as their design dates back to the 1970s and cost £ 6,700 per flight hour against Johnson’s Voyager’s 2,000.
One of the four BAE-146 jets that still remained at the disposal of the Royal Family
Elizabeth will thus remain in her kingdom for the first time without having access to a private plane, another sign of the long but inexorable decline of the British monarchy. It is very likely that if the number of soldiers for the defense is reduced, the ranks of the Household Cavalry parade at Buckingham Palace will also be reduced, and perhaps even the changing of the guard will turn into a pathetic parody of itself. The queen will turn 95 in April and it is unlikely that she will still make long air travel, but the government’s decision will have a hard impact on Charles and William, instead forced to travel much more than before due to the unwillingness of numerous relatives to attend. to official commitments: the Queen and Philip due to age, Prince Andrew for the events related to the acquaintances with Jeffrey Epstein, Harry and Meghan for the escape to America. At the disposal of the heir to the throne and his son will remain only a noisy AW-109 helicopter, good at best for some transfers near London.
