Queen of England

Queen Elizabeth II visited my school in Harare. The headmaster wanted us to sing the British anthem. So I protested.

I find it abhorrent that the royal family is, for all intents and purposes, a thriving $28bn commercial empire. I have read that Queen Elizabeth II purportedly supported the Black Lives Matter movement. However, I drew a line in the sand when it came to fawning over the queen of England or British royals, in general. She hadn’t attempted to atone for the centuries-long repression that facilitated her considerable wealth and white privilege. I regarded the latter as an especially condescending and redundant exercise. To be clear, I treasured the multicultural society that I lived in.