Given that she can never speak of these matters in public, save in the one Christmas message described in the article, I wonder how you (or anyone else) can know that?
but refuses to stand up for Christian morals in any serious way.
Again, how do you know, given that the only means constitutionally available to her to do so is in private advice to her ministers?
“Given that she can never speak of these matters in public, save in the one Christmas message described in the article, I wonder how you (or anyone else) can know that?”
You’re making the mistake of thinking “she can never speak of these matters in public”. The Guardian might put it that way but that’s because they do whatever they can as a communist newspaper to paint the monarchy as an obsolete tool of the capitalist establishment. No one can stop the queen from talking about whatever she wants to talk about. Who is going to stop her?
The only real rule about religion which exists in regard to the English royal family members is that they cannot become Catholic and still become the monarch. Some legal scholars say once a monarch they can be Muslim, they can be Hindu (and still rule the Anglican Church!), but they can’t become Catholic.
The U.K. has gay marriage (a great moral evil), abortion on demand (a great evil), gay adoption (a great evil), rampant contraception (a great moral evil - as Protestants universally believed until the 1930s) and a number of others. Queen Elizabeth has never condemned or fought against any of these evils. She has, instead, tacitly endorsed them all. That means she doesn’t have much of deep faith. I’m not saying she has no faith at all, but a faith that does exactly nothing against moral evils that destroy millions of souls is worthless.
“Again, how do you know, given that the only means constitutionally available to her to do so is in private advice to her ministers?”
Again, she has never once opposed a great moral evil in the U.K. Never. She is not prohibited from doing so. Even if she were prohibited from doing so, why would that matter? What can they do to her? Can they send her to Hell? Can they destroy her soul? What a worthless faith she has if it is so easily cowed.
Queen Elizabeth II chose her crown over the gospel - just like her ancestors time and time again.