Uhm… the wikipedia page is extremely vague, none of the google results come from a reliable source… so the only conclusion I got to is that Operation Gladio existed and people were pissed when they found out, but it’s unclear how many people were involved and what exactly they did other than waiting for a communist take over that didn’t happen. So the meme stating that’s the reason for Italy being right wing seems a fairly wild extrapolation.

I can’t find all that much about activities of Gladio in Italy, do you have sources?

Scale it considering that a president is appointed for 4 years, a monarch for life. Overall, I don’t find it weird that people need time to mourn when their political system gets a good shake…

But Queen Elizabeth was not “former” queen. What would happen if a President would die (of natural causes) on the job?