Elisabetta, president of Comites London: “Carlo will enter the Italian heart”

The Queen was “indirectly a symbol, a point of reference” for the Italian community in England, especially for the elderly, who have lived for many years in this country that “welcomed them and allowed them to have a job and a family”. Thus the lawyer and notary Alessandro Gaglione, president of the Comites of London, comments with the Adnkronos on the death of Queen Elizabeth, underlining how King Charles will have – in his view – a “very hard test in front of him” or that of enter the hearts of the people and Italians who live in England as their mother did. Faced with the news of the disappearance of ‘The Queen’, the “variegated” and “huge” Italian community – officially made up of about 470 thousand Aire members only considering London and Manchester but in reality much more nourished – is reacting in a “partially different way” “, explains Gaglione, according to which the first generation Italian immigrants, those who may have been born here or have been here longer, therefore the majority,” have felt pathos towards the citizens of the United Kingdom “because” they identify with the Queen the Country that welcomed us and that made us feel at home “, while for obvious reasons this feeling is not so evident perhaps in the young people, who” arrived here a few months ago “and have” a different sensitivity “. The Queen, continues the president of the Comites, was a figure “loved transversely” and one of those personalities “entered the hearts” of people, even of someone who does not look favorably on the monarchy as an institution. This is why in the Italian community, even seeing the reactions on social networks, today “the sense of sadness, of mourning” prevails as for those leaders who “enjoy transversal respect”. Gaglione therefore highlights how King Charles has a “huge task ahead of him. , very difficult “which” is not so much what to be the King, since the monarchy is now very blurred, but somehow insinuate itself in people’s hearts. I don’t say cancel Elizabeth, which is impossible, but steal some space to the Queen “and maintain the same level of” affection “that existed between the monarch and the Italian community and Italy. “But I am confident that it will be well received by the Italian community, I see no obstacles”, the lawyer points out. Gaglione then remembers with particular affection two images of Elisabetta, the most recent first being “the chat with Paddington bear” on the occasion of the her Platinum Jubilee, which “has truly remained in people’s hearts”, the other is an iconic photo from the past in which she smiled fondly as she passed her prince consort in full dress. “A more personal memory – she concludes – dates back to a few years ago. I saw her pass by during a public event and for a second I had the opportunity to meet her eyes. In her eyes I saw the love for people and children who around her they were cheering her. “