Queen Elizabeth: She is said to have rejected the Nobel Peace Prize

Why didn’t Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) win the Nobel Peace Prize during her lifetime? Especially in 2018, there were numerous rumors that the British monarch should be nominated for the award for her decades of service to the Commonwealth. As “has now learned from a member of the court, the Queen was actually informed about this proposal.

Normally it is not customary to inform people about this before the nomination. However, an exception is said to have been made for the queen. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has asked Buckingham Palace several times for advice on how to nominate the Queen. But there was no interest in that. “They were politely told, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” the British newspaper reports.

In the years before Queen Elizabeth’s death, there were repeated reports of an impending nomination. In 2018, the then Labor MP Frank Field (1942-2024) explained why he, as “one of many ministers”, considered the Queen to be the rightful recipient of the award. “If the determined diplomacy with which the Queen has kept the Commonwealth – which is a model for how a multitude of nations around the world can police themselves – alive and running for over 60 years, she is not for one “It’s hard to imagine what else anyone can do,” the politician said at the time. Historian Ashley Jackson (53) emphasized to the paper that the Queen helped the Commonwealth “with her soft power” to become a diverse society of “independent nation states”.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded each year to the living person who, according to the United Nations, “has contributed most to the fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Previous winners include former US Presidents Barack Obama (63) and Jimmy Carter (100), Mother Teresa (1910-1997), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1969) and Nelson Mandela (1918-2013). .