Le match de Ligue Europa entre Arsenal et le PSV Eindhoven, initialement prévu jeudi à 21 heures, est reporté à cause d’un manque de personnel de sécurité après la mort de la reine Élizabeth II.

L’UEFA a annoncé ce lundi le report du match de Ligue Europa entre Arsenal et le PSV Eindhoven, qui devait se jouer ce jeudi à 21 heures. L’instance européenne explique que les ressources policières ne sont pas suffisantes pour encadrer un tel match en raison des évènements qui entourent le décès de la reine Élizabeth II.

Cette annonce intervient au lendemain du report de Glasgow Rangers-Naples, une affiche de Ligue des champions décalée d’une journée pour les mêmes raisons. Cette fois-ci, l’UEFA n’a pas donné plus d’informations quant à la reprogrammation du match des Gunners.

This Thursday's #UEL match between Arsenal and PSV has been postponed. A new date for the fixture will be communicated in due course.

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 L’émotion est vive au Royaume-Uni et dans le monde vendredi au lendemain du décès de la reine Elizabeth II, qui s’est éteinte à l’âge de 96 ans, au château de Balmoral, en Ecosse. Les cloches des églises ont retenti à la mi-journée dans tout le Royaume-Uni en hommage à la souveraine. Puis des coups de canon ont été tirés.

Dès l’annonce du décès, la foule s’est réunie en masse devant Buckingham Palace à Londres, entonnant des chants d’hommages ou déposant des fleurs. Certains ont veillé une partie de la nuit et d’autres se sont massés devant les grilles dès le petit matin.

Premier dans l’ordre de succession, le fils aîné de la reine, Charles, accède au trône d’Angleterre et devient roi de seize Etats indépendants et chef du Commonwealth. Le nouveau souverain britannique, qui prend le nom de Charles III, est allé à la rencontre de la foule à son arrivée à Londres. Il a également rencontré la Première ministre. Il s’adressera pour la première fois aux Britanniques à la télévision à 19h (heure suisse). Il sera formellement intronisé samedi à 11h (heure suisse).

De Joe Biden à Emmanuel Macron en passant par Xi Jinping, les hommages se sont multipliés dans le monde. Le président de la Confédération Ignazio Cassis a présenté ses condoléances à la famille royale britannique. La reine restera dans les mémoires comme « une femme d’une grande force et d’un leadership constant », a-t-il tweeté.

Le Royaume-Uni va fonctionner au ralenti durant plusieurs jours. De nombreuses compétitions sportives, notamment les matches de football de première division, et spectacles seront suspendus et la tonalité sera plus sombre que d’habitude. La BBC par exemple n’a prévu que des chansons neutres ou tristes à la radio et pas d’émission satiriques.

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Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.

Her son King Charles III said the death of his beloved mother was a « moment of great sadness » for him and his family and that her loss would be « deeply felt » around the world.

Senior royals had gathered at her Scottish estate after concerns grew about her health earlier on Thursday.

The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.

King Charles said: « We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much-loved mother.

« I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world. »

He will lead the country in mourning as the new King and head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms. Camilla, his wife, becomes Queen Consort.

During the coming period, he said he and his family would be « comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the Queen was so widely held ».

In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: « The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

« The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow. »

All the Queen’s children travelled to Balmoral, near Aberdeen, after doctors placed the Queen under medical supervision.

Her grandson and now heir to the throne, Prince William, is also there, with his brother, Prince Harry, on his way.

Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was appointed by the Queen on Tuesday, said the monarch was the rock on which modern Britain was built, who had « provided us with the stability and strength that we needed ».

Speaking about the new King, she said: « We offer him our loyalty and devotion, just as his mother devoted so much, to so many, for so long.

« And with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country, exactly as Her Majesty would have wished, by saying the words ‘God save the King’. »

Queen Elizabeth II’s tenure as head of state spanned post-war austerity, the transition from empire to Commonwealth, the end of the Cold War and the UK’s entry into – and withdrawal from – the European Union.

Her reign spanned 15 prime ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in 1874, and including Ms Truss, born 101 years later in 1975.

She held weekly audiences with her prime minister throughout her reign.

At Buckingham Palace in London, crowds awaiting updates on the Queen’s condition began crying as they heard of her death. The Union flag on top of the palace was lowered to half-mast at 18:30 BST and an official notice announcing the death was posted outside.

On the Queen’s death, Prince William and his wife, Catherine, became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall..

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As the Sex Pistols said back in 1977, the year of the silver jubilee, never mind the bollocks. It really doesn’t matter what it’s for – just seize the moment: an extra bank holiday for this miserable country, which has the fewest national holidays in Europe and the second fewest in the world. England and Wales have just eight, Northern Ireland 10, Scotland 11; by contrast Europe averages 12.8, and Japan has 17.

Enjoy a release from England’s grindstone working culture, whipped on by cabinet luminaries Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Kwasi Kwarteng and Dominic Raab, who in 2012 damned British workers as “the worst idlers in the world” in their obnoxious book Britannia Unchained.

So knees up, and let everyone roister in their own way, as I shall with family and friends. But expect relatively few streets bedecked with bunting and flags: only 14% of people are planning royal celebrations. Camera crews hunt for examples of extreme royalism bursting out all over, yet 54% of those asked told pollsters they were not interested at all. The reality may, of course, prove different: celebrations are infectious, and I suspect plenty of us good republicans will be watching these pageants, troopings, concerts and spectaculars with a drink or two.

As we celebrate this one long life, there is no doubting public admiration and affection for the Queen herself. She remains a fixed emblem of pomp, even as national dignity is trashed by the present prime minister. She has steered her wayward family “firm” skilfully through 70 years of change and tumult. Like it or not, reigns are milestones in all our lives. This will be one of her last hurrahs, and I defy anyone not to measure out their personal and our national history in some hazy notion of an Elizabethan age.

Republic, the anti-monarchist pressure group, has been sending poster vans around the country emblazoned with Make Elizabeth the Last. And that’s the point: not revolution but an end to the monarchy when the Queen dies. That is the time to think deeply about what monarchy does to us and to the British constitution – before the Vivat rex! rings out to seal the country’s monarchical fate, allowing no time for reflection.

Whatever our vision of the future, there is no doubting public admiration and affection for the Queen herself

Ahead, we look destined for three old or ageing kings: Charles, William and George, all likely to accede in their 60s or 70s in this long-lived line. Is there never to be a pause for thought? Boris Johnson has shown how easily a rogue prime minister abuses an unwritten constitution, with an unelected and symbolic head of state obedient only to that prime minister. Elected presidents, as in Ireland’s distinguished choices, have a formal role as guarantors of constitutions. A Labour party constantly challenged to prove its patriotism will never turn republican until the public gets there first. We need a constitutional convention to reform our political system’s deformities, above all electoral, but also its warping by the monarchy.

Today, enjoy the pomp and spectacle, but remember the infantilising influence on Britain’s political psyche of babies born to rule. “Modernise” it as much as her heir may try, the whole fandango of inheritance helps keep this country unequal and socially immobile, weighed down by the power of birth privilege.

Any republicans in festive mood will find it hard to dodge what Johnny Rotten called the bollocks. Just when you think no more unctuous religio-royalism can flow from the mouths of serious broadcasters high on royal miasma, another stream of brainless adoration pours out. Much as I admire the BBC, and will defend it to the last against culture war bombardments from Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries, I fear this jubilee coverage smacks of a panicked loss of the BBC’s sense of itself. All that we ask for is a modicum of detached reporting about this choreographed promotion: monarchy is not outside politics.

Graham Smith of Republic has been monitoring coverage. “The BBC website has more than 200 stories about the jubilee, and only one mentions republican opposition,” he says. Republicans are a small but significant minority, with 27% now in favour of abolishing the monarchy. Smith describes “a slow puncture” of support for the crown, which now stands at 60% – quite a drop from 70-75% a decade ago. The young expect it to be gone within 25 years.

Beyond the statistics are the personal recollections. I watched the Queen’s coronation in Pall Mall in 1953, yearning for a toy golden coach. In 1977, I panicked at losing my small daughter in the dark at a village jubilee bonfire. At Charles and Diana’s wedding fireworks, we got scarily crushed in the Hyde Park crowds. On Friday I’ll be with family at the ancient, once-every-20-years Pole Fair in Corby, Northamptonshire.

National celebrations make for shared memories. But don’t let the culture warriors turn monarchy into a test of patriotism. Passionate patriotism comes from a thousand different reasons to love the place where you belong. Britain’s proudest achievements – from Shakespeare to the NHS, the BBC to the Beatles, Edward Jenner’s vaccinations to the steam engine, the television and Tim Berners-Lee’s world wide web – have nothing to do with heredity. National history will always be fluidly reinterpreted through changing prisms. Each revision is invariably castigated as “woke”, but that history is dead if it is set in concrete memorials, as the culture warriors wish it to be.

Everyone will make their own jubilee kaleidoscope of the Elizabethan era, according to age, temperament and politics, because this Queen stretches back to her wartime uniform and We’ll Meet Again. There she is, through every national rising up and sliding down, that permanent background image to all the best and worst memories of what Britain has done to itself in 70 years.

By Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

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Avant son jubilé, la reine a fêté son anniversaire en toute tranquillité dans son refuge de Sandringham. Sans éviter toutefois les controverses familiales.

Ahead of The Queen’s 96th Birthday tomorrow, @windsorhorse have released a new photograph of Her Majesty.

Taken last month in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Queen is pictured with two of her fell ponies, Bybeck Katie and Bybeck Nightingale.

Happy Birthday Your Majesty! pic.twitter.com/8m46e3SvpX

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 20, 2022

Le contraste entre les deux parties de la une du tabloïd Daily Mail de ce jeudi 21 avril est saisissant. En haut, la photo officielle de la reine en compagnie de deux de ses poneys favoris, publiée à l’occasion de son 96^e anniversaire. En bas, la photo de son petit-fils Harry barrée de la mention assassine : « le prince de l’illusion ».

La double manchette fait suite aux nouvelles critiques acerbes adressées par le duc de Sussex à son père, à son frère et aux hauts fonctionnaires du palais dans son interview diffusée la veille à la télévision américaine. « J’espère que Grannie est bien entourée… je suis le seul avec qui elle peut vraiment parler », a déclaré l’intéressé à propos de sa relation avec la souveraine. Résumant l’opprobre général, le buckinghamologue Robert Lacey estime que « Harry souffre d’un burn-out à l’image de quiconque est obligé de faire jusqu’à la fin de sa vie des commentataires provocateurs à tire-larigot en vue de garantir des cachets télévisés rémunérateurs ».

Un autre événement est venu gâcher la célébration de l’anniversaire royal, le veto mis par Charles et William à la reprise par le prince Andrew de ses fonctions de représentation. Après la récente conclusion d’un accord financier avec son accusatrice dans une affaire de pédocriminalité – qu’Elizabeth II avait réglé de sa propre poche –, son fils favori l’a accompagnée lors du service religieux du 29 mars à la mémoire de son défunt époux, le prince Philip. Dans le collimateur de l’héritier au trône, de son fils aîné et des médias unanimes, Andrew restera le paria du clan Windsor.

Ahead of The Queen’s 96th Birthday tomorrow, @windsorhorse have released a new photograph of Her Majesty.

Taken last month in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Queen is pictured with two of her fell ponies, Bybeck Katie and Bybeck Nightingale.

Happy Birthday Your Majesty! pic.twitter.com/8m46e3SvpX

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 20, 2022

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