VE Day Anniversary 80 Years and Royal Family

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I am probably worrying but somehow I am not sure how VE Day 2025 is going to be presented. Somewhat like trying to have Armistice Day Parades during WW2 it must have been difficult.
Past commemorations have included street parties and generally bigging up being British with wartime sprit songs. Also the involvement of Church Services, Cadet and Serving Forces attendance at memorials and the Royal Family members turning up somewhere.

But with the Demise of Queen Elizabeth(II) the Royal Family with Charles (III) aged 77 it suddenly looks shaky, Andrew has lost any credibility he may have had , Harry is non-grata (wronged in my opinion) , leaving William and a young ( always looking a spoilt brat - maybe he does have potential) George to really carry things through (Anne and Edward will reliably turn up and shake hands, and Camilla will be a good Buckingham Palace Garden Party Host) There are those who say we should have a US or similar system with a President (and if President Thatcher, or Blair, were not bad thoughts Farage or Badenoch would be distinctly dodgy choices and Starmer power would go to his head)

The Church's influence is mired in scandal (and a lack of clergy at the low level and the high ranks - breeding for heir, spare, army and church has long gone from the masses) . The greatest celebrations could end up being in the Indian communities of the country - one of the fallouts of WW2 was a gain in the independence away from the British Empire . Add in levels of a taxation burden perceived as being high on the working family in present times (its a bit lower than WW2 burden but not much when you crunch some figures) The end of WW2 went quickly from being a contemporary thing, to something only studied in Modern History courses to a school textbook staple of if its this week its Gas Masks remote from a shared reality. As someone pointed out the Ordinance Factories have gone to privatisation or housing estate and two nukes do not a deterrant make. Our families that may recall the 1920s to 1950s are going , or are disregarded as being of relevance to busy working millennials. Once again it feels Britain stands alone and we are not in charge of our own destiny, hollowed out by economic experiments from left and right. Maybe I am wrong and Basildon Man feels the new town petty affluence is still sufficient but to me the country needs a rebuild where the profits are shared and the labour fairly allocated.