Queen Elizabeth has sent a delicately coded message to Britain’s factious political class over Brexit, urging lawmakers to seek common ground and grasp the big picture to resolve the crisis.
While the Queen, 92, did not mention Brexit explicitly in an annual speech to her local Women’s Institute in Norfolk on Thursday, the monarch said every generation faced “fresh challenges and opportunities.”
With the clock ticking down to March 29, the date set in law for Britain to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom is in the deepest political crisis in half a century as it grapples with how, or even whether, to exit the European project it joined in 1973.
Meanwhile Buckingham Palace declined to comment though the British media was clear about the significance of her remarks.
