What if a referendum abolished the British monarchy? The prophecy of ‘Exit Queen. Check to the queen

It all begins when a new prime minister takes over Downing Street, turning a generation’s resentment into a landslide election victory. He presented himself to public opinion with a significant calling card: “The Monarchy is the last legacy of feudalism. The time has come for it to be weighed by the people. This was one of the reassuring announcements of the winner of the elections during the electoral campaign”. A purpose that translates into a real political plan. The new prime minister, thanks to the popular investiture, in fact presents himself at Buckingham Palace with a bill, a date, ten letters that could change British history forever: a referendum on the monarchy.

From here a tug of war begins between the two powers of the state: monarchical tradition and prime minister compete in a match with uncertain results. Elizabeth II listens in silence to her prime minister. Often the monarch has reigned precisely with silence, letting political crises, wars and cultural revolutions pass, observing the changes of the era, always firm in her positions and clinging to her power. But now the country appears split in two and everything could collapse. In the pubs of the North they toast the Republic. In the southern counties the Crown is defended as a sacred inheritance. Political advisers, spin doctors and institutional gatekeepers move their pawns as the UK prepares to choose. A choice that can redraw the map of power and make the history not only of Great Britain but of the entire world. This is because if the people are granted the right to vote the Crown can also fall. ‘Exit Queen. Check of the Queen’ is a powerful and very current political novel, suspended between reality and prophecy. A reflection on the identity of a nation lashed by the wind of populism and the economic crisis. Because – the two authors basically say – when history accelerates, even institutions that seemed eternal can end up in check.