#anti british monarchy

[icedsodapop]

Finding out Kate Middleton has cancer is bringing out conflicting feelings. On the one hand, getting cancer is tough and I hope she recovers soon. On the other hand, why should I feel sorry for this White royal woman who helped to throw her Black sis-in-law under a bus and helps to maintain a status quo built on colonialism and inequality?

[richard-the-iii-defender]

"King" Charles the III better a be the new King Charles I, beheading included.

When will people realise that monarchy is naturally classist and anti democracy?

Stop simping for royals!

[hussyknee]

I have had to make peace with the fact that Red, White and Royal Blue is fundamentally American Brand Hopium and therefore white liberal shit (I think that's like a prerequisite for being one of my hyperfixations. They all live in the space between trashy glamour and an irritated moral consicence, never giving me a moment's peace). But one thing Casey Mcquiston did right (apart from letting the Jewish girl and MoC dunk on T-Swift*) was making Henry walk away from the Crown in the coda. The amount of fanfiction that centers on making him and Alex have a Westminster wedding and being granted dukedoms is fucking me up. Like, it's not just one or two, it's nearly every single fic written well enough to be readable.

In the USAmerican liberal mind, having a brown man of colonized origins ascend to Royal White Gay status is somehow progressive, rather than making him also complicit in an institution that is the literal symbol of white supremacy, colonial genocide, pillaged wealth and systemic inequality. Mcquiston, for all their faults, at least recognised that the wealth of empire is a blood-soaked thing, and to partake of it makes you complicit in its sins. Literally that's one of the first things that sets Henry apart from his family, and gets Alex's attention. The fandom otoh, hasn't gotten the memo. Or maybe not having to live the reality of colonial violence and trauma gives them the privilege of escaping the moral implications of British royalty. I know that the US's Overton window is fucked beyond all hope, but what passes for the leftist solidarity among white queers is a tragedy. No wonder every Black person or PoC over there is fucked up in some way.

As you can see with Meghan Markle, bringing BIPOC into violently oppressive, white supremacist institutions isn't a win for their communities, it's feeding them alive into maw of the beast for liberal tokenism. The virulent racism is a fucking foundational feature, not a bug. I'm not faulting her for marrying the man she loved, and they don't deserve any of the horrible shit the RF has been putting them through, but in a purely political context, her joining the RF was a betrayal of her fellow colonized. And the fact that they refuse to relinquish their titles, even after everything, tells us that they're still not in solidarity with everyone else this parasitic, anti-democratic relic institution has fucked over. But apparently that's peak fantasy for USAmerican and white queers.

This is why I don't fuck with fandom outside of AO3 anymore. It's always the same. Whites and the West just don't have any actual leftist values, or if they do, they're purely cosmetic. It's nothing to do with your generational cohort bullshit, y'all are just as fucking racist and white privileged as your parents.

*substracting every single point for having Alex crush on Justin Trudeau immediately beforehand though. Trudeau's blackface scandal and allegations of misogynistic and racist harrassment way predated 2019, when the book would have been in edits. Also minus fucking points for making Alex idolise Obama, and Scalia's BFF Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I wonder whether white libs know that this white woman refused to retire during the Obama administration, making the current Handmaiden's Tale state of affairs directly her fault. Also the fact that Thurgood Marshall and also the heroes of the Chicano Civil Rights movement were right the fuck there. And stop fucking blaming your education system because the rest of us learned about US history on our own, because y'all's global cultural hegemony penalizes us for not knowing this shit.

[jonsnowisthesexiestbastard]

I’m sorry but it blow my mind that there are people in England right now that can’t afford 3 meals a day and then they have to see that old dude’s expensive coronation in the TV.

[littlemisstfc]

Charles and Camilla, keep reaching for the title of King and Queen because you’ll both never be one each. 💞

[ayeforscotland]

1. Piñata at lunch break

[wandererslullabi]

Maybe you’re trolling but I’ll bite. Let’s say Charles III does live to his father’s 99 years, as you suggest. He’s 74 now, so that’s about 25 years until a new coronation for another monarch. The average length of a British monarch’s reign is 26 years.

According to the UK Office for National Statistics: “the modal (most common) age at death was 86.7 years for males and 89.3 years for females in 2018 to 2020.”

Based on the she/her in her profile, the original tweeter is a woman. So she’s expected to live until 89. 89 minus 25 = 64.

The tweeter would have to be over age 64 or have an unexpected major health event to be very likely to die before Charles. Most people under 60 will either see another coronation in their lifetime or the monarchy will die before they do.

The heir, Prince William, is 40. He’d be 65 if he lives to see Charles’ 99th birthday. If he lived to 99 too, his reign would be 34 years long. 25 for Charles, 34 for William = 59. The average under 27 year old in the UK will live to see the coronation of the monarch after William, which is three total coronations…if the monarchy is not abolished before then.

[celticcatgirl2]

“Where is that “King Charles” with all the mean stuff his kingdom did I bet he’s a really strong villain for me to fight!!!”

[mwagneto]

[icedsodapop]

It's stuff like this that really backs up my initial distaste towards Prince William's recent advocacy to ending homelessness. Becos the philanthropy of the rich and the powerful is often used to obfuscate the fact that they themselves are part of the problem they claim to be solving.

[theiconicmeghanmarkle]

You are not my King! This is not your land! You committed genocide against out people. Senator Lidia Thorpe to Charles

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

hey so remember those new protest laws that make peaceful protest illegal? yeah? wanna see them in action?

[alt text:]

Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest

Republic’s Graham Smith held at protest on King Charles III’s procession route in central London

Daniel Boffey Chief reporter, Sat 6 May 2023 08.31 BST

The head of the UK’s leading republican movement has been arrested at an anti-monarchist protest on King Charles III’s procession route.

Graham Smith had been collecting drinks and placards for demonstrators at Trafalgar Square when he was detained by police on the Strand in central London.

It is understood Smith was detained after bringing a megaphone to the demonstration. The Met police had tweeted earlier this week that they would have a “low tolerance” of those seeking to “undermine” the day.

Harry Stratton, a director at Republic, who arrived as Smith and the others were detained, said: “They were collecting the placards and bringing them over when the police stopped them.

“The guys asked why and they were told: we will tell you that once we have searched the vehicle. That’s when they arrested the six organisers. We asked on what grounds they had been arrested but they wouldn’t say. It is a surprise as we had had a number of meetings with the police. They had been making all the right noises”.

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dont you love it when your government decides to not even bother hiding the fact the fascist tendencies theyre leaning more and more into?

[richard-the-iii-defender]

I'm so anti-monarchist that I'm going to start another civil war in England, if I go missing you know who did it.

[morrigan-le-faye]

Imagine waiting that long to become King and then almost immediately getting cancer

[richard-the-iii-defender]

Behold! All of the countries victimised by the British Empires colonisation and oppression!

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

- Queen Elizabeth II

The flags of the modern day Commonwealth carried during the coronation of King Charles III.

[littlemisstfc]

KARMA, BITCH. >:D