Nostradamus Predicted The Queen’s Passing

16th Century refuted seer Nostradamus has, if you believe the scriptures, predicted a number of world events, including The Great Plague, The Great Fire of London and the 9/11 Attacks. This week, another of his prophecies has partially come true. 

Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future was first published in 2006. Author and literature graduate Mario Reading translates a number of 4-line quatrains from Old French, interpreting metaphors and many plays on words. 

Most relevant now is Quatrain 6/72, which Reading claimed would occur in 2022.  

Through the pretend fury of divine emotion 

The wife of the great one will be badly wronged 

Judges wish to condemn such a doctrine 

The victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people. 

Reading describes a ‘constitutional crisis on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, provoked by The Church of England.’ The crisis, not the death. Although feel free to theorise. Reading suggests The Church of England might be the next institution to topple. Well. I’d rather that than the NHS. 

But let’s take a look at the next quatrain in the book, 10/22.  

Because they disapproved of his divorce 

A man who later they considered unworthy 

The people will force out the King of the Islands 

A man will replace him who never expected to be king. 

22 relates to the year, (although these numbers – confusingly enough – don’t always marry up to the year in which the interpreted event happened). But we can assert that Nostradamus was bang on the money there. 

Charles is now King, due to be crowned, but Nostradamus and Reading suggest his tenure won’t last. 

‘The resentments held against him by a certain proportion of the British Population,’ claims Reading, ‘following his divorce from Diana, still persist. The pressure on him is so great, and his age so much against him, that Charles agrees to abdicate in favour of his son.’ 

Well, no sign of that yet. 

‘The question is, which son?’ 

Well, if Reading were still alive (he died in 2017), he’d know now which one. This could only be William: Harry has ditched the Royal Family as they were – shock – discriminatory towards his mixed-race wife. 

Perhaps William doesn’t expect to be King because of the increasing resistance to the idea of a monarchy, a lauding family of millionaires we’re supposed to idolise while the rest of us wallow in a mire of austerity. Perhaps he’s expecting abolition. 

So, Reading / Nostradamus may have got the year of Queen Elizabeth’s passing right, but there’s some question over King Charles’ tenure. Will his divorce and second marriage in fact lead to the disestablishment of The Church of England? Will he abdicate? And how long will the Royal Family last?