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It is prudent to assume thatQueen Elizabeth will not be sorry to see 2019 GB. In the past year, Her Majesty had to bear rather horrible eventsinvolving the royal family. Probably at the top of the list ofTraumatic events that collected Windsor's home This year wasPrince Andrew's Disastrous maintenance bbc, who raised more questions than answers about the participation of his son "favorite" of the queen with the convicted sex offenderJeffrey Epstein. But there was barely a month in 2019 in which Queen Elizabethwas not Treat with serious benefits from the closest and most expensive stockings.

The last time the queen had a year this bad was 1992, she surrendered.Annus horrilis"" It's also his 40th year on the throne. In a guildhall speech marking the anniversary of his membership, she told the friendly public, "1992 is not a year on which I will come back with undiluted pleasure."

At the time, Her Majesty referred to the same public implosion of two of his sons's weddings. In January of this year, Prince Andrew andSarah Ferguson announcementtheir separation after six years of marriage. Then Fergie, who was already outside with the family, would have been infurded the queen in August whenPhotographs of Duchess Sunbather Toothless with his "financial manager", "John Bryan, appeared on the first page of theDaily Mirror. The wandering duchess was quickly summoned to the palace, read the riot law and banned for good. (Prince Harry weddingMeghan murder was the first timePrince Philip had been in the same piece as Fergy since then.) A few months later in December, then-Prime MinisterJohn Major announces the Parliament thatPrince Charles andprincess diana had officially separated.

It is unlikely that the queen will directly address one of the disasters she had to face in 2019 in her televised Christmas address in Great Britain (Palace sources say that the queen is "finding that It is difficult to write this year's remarks). But here is a summary of the events that made 2019 a royal pain for Her Majesty, from the worst.

In January, Prince Philip made headlines when the armor is plated on the Land Rover road, he was drivingAvailable with a minivan Transporting two women and a nine-month baby on a public road near the Sandringham estate of Queen's Sandringham. While the Royal car turned to his side andA witness told the BBC that he seemed "obviously shaken", the prince emerged unscathed.Emma FairweatherOne of the women of the other car, maintained a broken wrist and the other passenger suffered cuts and bruises on his knee. The baby was unscathed. After the accident, Philip left the scene and then explained that it was because it had been advised to do it by a local police officer. He was not charged.

After Fairweather rendered TV tours complaining of Prince's actions,The mirror of Sunday reported that it received a hand-delivered apologize. "I would like you to know how much I'm really sorry, I'm for my part in Babingley's Cross-Roads accident," wrote the prince. "I'm through that crossing any number of times and I know very well the amount of traffic that uses this main road ... I can only imagine that I did not understand the car to come, and I am very contrite to consequences. "

But it was a cold comfort when just two days after the accident, Philip was spottedDriving without seat belt. Several media in Great Britain questioned whether the prince, who withdrew from public life in 2017, should always lead. Three weeks after the accident, it was decided that Philip definitely would give his driver's license. "The Queen had been concerned for some time about the insistence of the Duke to behave, but it is mostly real estate land," said a royal source. "She was upset by the accident and she knew it was time to do something. The duke was very disappointed, but he agreed that the time had come."

As a fan ofThe crownKnows, the queen meets regularly with the Prime Minister to talk about important events affecting the political landscape of the UK. While Her Majesty is a constitutional monarch that does not do not decide the law, because of an idiosyncrasia. From the British Constitution, it only she, as Queen, can suspend Parliament. In September, at the strongest crisis of Brexit, Prime MinisterBoris JohnsonAsked the queen doing exactly that because, he said, it was necessary for him to prepare for a new legislative agenda before the start of the new session. His Majesty gave his permission to suspend Parliament until the end of October (the longestSince the Second World War), but the highest civil court of Scotland decided that the advice and suspensionwere illegal.

The High Court ruled the actual motif of the suspension. Johnson could avoid the control of his Brexit plans. TheThe British media accused him of lying to the queen, that he rejected vehemently. But Johnson did not stop there. In mid-October, he convinced the queen to deliver theTraditional post-election "Queen's speech" (which is always written by the Prime Minister's writers) in the House of Lords before a vote is launched. Historically, this is done to establish a new legislative agenda for the government that has won the majority. Many constitutional experts and political commentators in the United States. Johnson, who recently won the general elections, to use the Queen to launch the Conservative Party Manifesto and, in fact, be a political shill.The sun reported that all this led to Johnson's relationship with the queen to hit "stone background. "

From the moment it was announced that Meghan Markle would be the first guest fiancée at Christmas in Sandringham, the insiders speculated that the Royal soon royal was aNew "favorite" of the queen. But the events of 2019 seem to tell another story. First, Meghan and Harry set the baby's dateARCHIE MOUNTBATTEN WINDSOR Baptism without consulting the Queen, causing a planning conflict that kept his Majesty attending the service. Then came the news that the new parents haddeclined the invitation of the queen To spend some of their summer vacation in Balmoral because they were too busy preparing their next royal tour. Meghan, however, found the time ofFly to New York for the weekend To see his friendSerena Williams Play in the United States open.

But all this was nothing compared to the public relations nightmare that ensued as a result of Harry and Meghans of OctoberInterview with ITVTom Bradby, during which the couple turned a documentary on theirRoyal Tour of Africa to the dissemination of grievances on restrictions and pressures of royal life. According to my sources, the queen was "quite surprise" by the frank remarks of the couple. "It was quite injuring," said the initiate. "His Majesty has made every effort to make the Duchess feel welcome as possible; for Meghan to insinuate that the family has not supported it."

There was alsoAnnouncement of Harry's crash earlier in October, the press on what he considers Meghan's negative coverage, who coincided with the announcement of the couple they pursuedMail Sunday.It also does not sit with the queen. "The general feeling at the palace was that it was a very aggressive and badly timed action," added the insider, referring to the fact that the news broke near the end of the otherwise successful African tour.

Finally, in November, it was announced that the sussexes took a break of six weeks "well indispensable" andSpend the Christmas holidays away from the royal family This year. "The Queen was sustained because Harry and Meghan are clear, but she did everything for them for them," said my source. "It was nevertheless disappointing."

It was Rumain for months and no one wanted to believe that it was true, but in 2019 we learned that there is actually aRoyal playingPrince Williamand Prince HarryAnd it seems to be expanding. As I reported earlier this year, the insiders say that the Queen had become so concerned about the frightening relationship of the brothers once closer, she asked Prince Charles to do all that is necessary to put an end to the Sad split between his sons. A royal initiate told me, "It saddles His Majesty to see William and Harry like that." Sources say that the thrill between the two princes started when William suggested that Harry moves too quickly on his way to the altar with Meghan. But everything seemed to the royal marriage between the two men that the world had come to know as "the boys of Diana".

"The Queen hoped that after marriage, things would calm down and hard feelings would have disappeared," said my source. "But things aggravated. It's very upsetting to Her Majesty. She loves both her grandson in an equal way and knows how good a good relationship with her brothers and sisters is to help stay the course. Prince William's destiny is to become king of this country. If things continue as they are, it is unlikely that Harry is there for his brother in the way the queen has always hoped that he would always be. "

Obviously, the worst crisis that the queen had to face this year, Prince Andrew's decision to give an interview of the time at the BBC to discuss his relationship with the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, during which he denied the allegations that were made against him byVirginia Roberts giuffre.

The spectacular fall of the grace of the Queen's favorite "favorite" has rocked Windsor's house to his core. While the Queen offered Andrew a support show by attending the Church with him the day after the interview, a public stroke forced him to consider how the growing fury on the disastrous interview of the prince could have a Impact on the future of the monarchy. The result was the declaration of the bombAndrew "retreat" public tasks And his office was removed from the Palace of Buckingham.

"It was very strong for Her Majesty," said a palace mining. "The Duke has a lot to answer since this interview with the car wreck, but it is always his son. The situation has made a year already difficult absolutely terribly - and the worst part is this scandal does not disappear of time soon. "

Diane Clehane is a journalist and author of New YorkImagine Diana andDiana: the secrets of his style.