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It is at times like these that we look to our own leaders to express how we feel and to respond accordingly. Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has risen to the occasion enough for many to forget — for now at least — about lockdown parties that led to calls for his resignation.
Other members of her family have stepped up in her absence, as is the form these days.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said in a tweet over the weekend that they “stand with the President and all of Ukraine’s people as they bravely fight for that future.”
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted back, saying he and wife Olena were grateful to the couple that “at this crucial time, when Ukraine is courageously opposing Russia’s invasion, they stand by our country and support our brave citizens.”
From California, on the day Russia launched its invasion, Prince Harry and Meghan expressed their solidarity with the people of Ukraine “against this breach of international and humanitarian law” and urged “the global community and its leaders to do the same.”
On Tuesday, Prince Charles went further, speaking of “democracy” and “an open society” coming under attack in Ukraine “in the most unconscionable way.” He went on: “We are in solidarity with all those who are resisting brutal aggression.”
If the UK were ever to try to rebuild bridges with Putin, these comments will hang over Charles. That’s why, as a rule, royals don’t cast judgment on foreign heads of state. They’re in it for life, unlike transient politicians. Putin, however, has crossed the line on this one for Charles, as he has for most of the Western world.
But it was perhaps his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, who best expressed the nation’s shock without words, during the couple’s visit to a Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London on Wednesday.
The pair went to the Cathedral of the Holy Family — which has become a rallying point for the British Ukrainian community — where they met the Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, Vadym…
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Source : cnn
