Our Queen is 95 and has been a dedicated public servant for all her life. She now seems to be struggling to perform her role, a problem that is only likely to get worse over the next few years. An old monarch is a modern problem as no-one lived that long in the past and monarchs in days gone buy were liable to be dethroned by an upstart once they got old. Of course there are a few notable exceptions, but that was the general scheme.
Whatever you think of the Monarchy, and I am somewhat ambivalent, it doesn’t seem sensible to me to have a head of state that is so old and infirm that they can no longer perform their duties. It is said that she will never abdicate, but I don’t buy all the “called by God to the role” stuff. She is in a job she can no longer perform effectively and I think she should retire.
On the other hand, she may realise that the enthronement of King Charles is likely to be the beginning of the end of the Monarchy and so is hanging on for as long as she can. Unfortunately her descendants have created a royal soap opera that would be unbelievable if it was fiction which has fatally damaged the institution. It is possible that they are just symptoms of an institution in terminal decline who are caught up in the whole sorry spectacle. It doesn’t really matter – they should just get on with the succession and let the end game commence.