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(ANSA) – LONDON, 08 DECEMBER – A warm welcome, in Scotland and Wales, British nations traversed by secessionist or autonomous shudders, for Prince William and his wife Kate, protagonists this year of a Christmas tour of the country aboard the real train. . The initiative, conceived to encourage the Kingdom in times of pandemic and to pay tribute to those who work in emergencies or emergency services, closes today in the Welsh capital Cardiff, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were received by Oliver Dowden. Boris Johnson’s Tory central government Minister of Culture, who came especially from London for the occasion; but otherwise only by local authorities of modest rank and by a lesser organization.
A scene similar to the one reserved for the young princes yesterday in Scotland, where upon the arrival of the train with the signs of the dynasty at Edinburgh station they found a deputy mayor in charge of doing the formal honors, some commoners and a representation of rail transport workers. The coldness towards the two 38-year-old dukes – who seek consensus and greater public prominence while the 94-year-old Queen Elizabeth remains in de facto precautionary isolation at Windsor Castle – was justified by the need to respect the restrictions. to the distancing and social contacts still in force in the Kingdom.
But according to The Guardian it was evident in comparison to the friendlier tones of previous stops in England. Especially since the independence prime minister of the Scottish local government, Nicola Sturgeon, although he avoided direct controversy, did not hesitate in the last hours to underline how Kensington Palace, the official residence of Cambridge, had independently decided to continue with the trip “to Despite “fired from” travel restrictions “imposed for anti-Covid health precaution reasons among local measures taken in Scotland. (HANDLE).
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