(09-08-2022, 02:01 PM)WingerDinger Wrote:

(09-08-2022, 01:59 PM)MarleyJag Wrote: She was hated? That's news to me. I think she was personally very popular although there are some who believe the monarchy may be outdated a bit. But I think the majority were fond of her as Queen.

I'm not posting anything from Twitter because it's pretty vile and disgusting.. But it's there, and there's a lot of hate..

There are a few people out there who blame their problems on colonization and view QEII (wrongly, IMO) as a colonizer, so that's where it comes from.  But none of these people would say that to the face of the royals.  For instance, Barbados left the commonwealth recently, and there was some rhetoric about how bad colonization was, but when Prince Charles came to "hand off sovereignty" to their new head of state, the ceremony was polite.

Because most people understand, colonization by the British was more about Parliament and about corporations than it was about the monarch.

Now, contrast that with how the Belgian monarchy colonized the Congo.  They had a much more direct hand and there has been much more long lasting hate as a result.  Read what the first post-independence head of state there had to say about the Belgian king he was replacing.  That's hate.  Few people hated Elizabeth or her father or his father to that level.

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