King Charles is a bit of a Wanker

[Bama Chick 28596]

Yep.

History is written by the victorious.

And, through Diana dying tragically at a young age, Charles and Camilla have gotten to rewrite her story.

Along with their ghoulish allies in the British tabloid media.

Problem for them is that monarchs like Henry VIII and Victoria could have their opponents beheaded, exiled, and silenced.

Charles is finding out the internet is forever and shows like “The Crown” and the new HBO documentary “The Princess” is educating young folks on how Diana was abused by her husband and his family and The Firm and The Men in Gray.

If an almost 40 year old William was still single and got engaged to A 19 YEAR OLD GIRL who had had only met six times today??? People would lose their shit.

Diana’s death was convenient for Charles and paved the way for him to marry Camilla.

However, the flip side is the tragedy of her death at such a young age froze her in time as an icon and made her a victim and ultimately a martyr.

Had she lived, she wouldn’t be The People’s Princess and mythologized because even though she was abused and done dirty, Diana could be MESSY.

She was just starting to live her life as a free adult woman and she had terrible taste in men.

She would have been tabloid fodder and without the protection of the palace, every man she ever came in contact with would have been selling their stories.

So her death cleared the decks for Camilla but she will always haunt Charles.

[WhatTheBuck 28713]

John Oliver had a pretty good quip last night about how the Brits are still reeling from the shocking death of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes.

The whole episode is still up on YouTube for now. (I don’t know why the main story parts always stay up but the comedic opening parts are protected. Kind of seems like it should be the other way around.)

 

[bolverk 29405]

Don't know much about Great Britain law when it comes to free speech, but folks are apparently getting arrested for protesting the monarchy.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1122379162/uk-anti-royal-arrests

Couple of twit vids embedded in the story.

[Bama Chick 28596]

Charles is trapped.

For his age, he’s very “liberal” to the Tory establishment.

He made a statement about the abhorrent treatment of refugees from Rwanda and within a week three stories were published about his shady business dealings.

His environmentalism is treated with disdain.

William is the right wing tyrant in training.

It’s too bad Harry wasn’t born first.

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

On 9/10/2022 at 6:47 PM, Bama Chick said:

For example -

A tweet (now deleted) from the Royal Editor of The Daily Mail -



Reality -



And feast your eyes on the following headlines from The Daily Mail that have all run in two days since QEII passed.



They’re absolutely deranged.

This was pretty illuminating. 

 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Charles is trapped.

For his age, he’s very “liberal” to the Tory establishment.

He made a statement about the abhorrent treatment of refugees from Rwanda and within a week three stories were published about his shady business dealings.

His environmentalism is treated with disdain.

William is the right wing tyrant in training.

It’s too bad Harry wasn’t born first.
 

Beat me to it. 

[WhatTheBuck 28713]

This could go in the “Queen Elizabeth II has expired” thread but it fits here too and this one still has some life left in it. Just a perfect confluence of message and messenger.

 

[Neonmoon 38127]

These people are human garbage 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/royal-family-refuses-return-remains-ethiopian-prince-alemayehu-britain-rcna85721#

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Buckingham Palace has refused a repeated request to repatriate the remains of Prince Dejatch Alemayehu of Abyssinia — which includes modern-day Ethiopia — who was taken from his home at age 6 in 1868 and died just over a decade later in England.

 

His body is buried at Windsor Castle, one of King Charles III's official residences and the traditional site of British royal funerals and weddings.

Alemayehu was taken from Africa after British forces defeated his father and looted his imperial capital, in one of the most notorious military operations of Britain's colonial era. Ethiopia has been asking for the prince's remains and other treasures to be returned for the last 150 years.

Fasil Minas, a descendent of the Abyssinian royal family and a relative of Alemayehu, told the BBC: “We want his remains back as a family and as Ethiopians because that is not the country he was born in.”

But the palace said this week that this wasn't possible as it would disturb other human remains buried nearby.

"The Dean and Canons of Windsor are very sensitive to the need to honour the memory of Prince Alemayehu," Buckingham Palace said in a statement sent to NBC News on Tuesday.

"However, they have been advised that it is very unlikely that it would be possible to exhume the remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity," the statement said.

The won’t return the remains of a stolen child because it might disturb the other dead people 

[G650 14107]

Most Americans take on the royals is always laughably hilarious

[WhatTheBuck 28713]

54 minutes ago, G650 said:

Most Americans take on the royals is always laughably hilarious

As opposed to the not laughably hilarious? The serious kind of hilarious?

I’m not even sure what take “most” Americans have on the royals. Whether they care or whether they think the whole concept is stupid and outdated. To which were you referring? Surely not to those who think it’s pretty reprehensible of them to hold on to the remains of an African Prince, not to mention other treasures they’ve plundered from foreign lands

[hobbes2702 12847]

They’re cunts. Not sure if that’s laughable or not but it’s certainly true

[956 Worldwide 34444]

The Abyssinian Campaign is one of the more interesting ones in British history. The fact is that the British wanted nothing to do with Ethiopia, and I’d even hesitate to call it “colonial.” The Christian Emperor (and father of this prince) found himself at war with surrounding Muslim groups and nascent nations.  He decided that the best course was to ask foreign great powers to intervene. 
 

The British ignored his letter appealing to Christian solidarity to help him come fight Muslims, there was no appetite for the fight and they were uninterested in upsetting the Egyptians and Ottomans. In a rage, the Ethiopian empower threw some British citizen missionaries (there with permission) into chains and had them horsewhipped. Then for good measure he did the same to the British Consul (severely breaching diplomatic convention) and THEN did the same to another envoy dispatched to resolve the issue.  And THEN he had any European diplomat or envoy ant his court house imprisoned. And he continued to insist he wouldn’t let anyone out of prison until the British came to—ironically—fight a colonialist war on his behalf. 
 

Queen Victoria dispatched Napier and the Bombay Army (13K British and Indian troops with mules and elephants) after the Ethiopians dug their heels in.  They built their own port and road, then dragged guns and marched men over 200 miles to the mountain fortress where they wiped out the Ethiopian army, the Emperor shot himself, and they left with the loot and the hostages that were the whole reason for the expedition.  Ethiopia was never colonized, and only Italy ever really tried in the 20th century. 
 

Regardless of what ought to be done with this Prince or the other stuff, the actual campaign was very much Victorian era FAFO for a guy that should have simply let the British Army stay out of Ethiopia rather than demand it show up. Monkey’s paw and shit. 

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[mchookem 16224]

so many questions...did they bring the prince back to 'save' him after his father shot himself? was he enslaved? where was the rest of his family (mother, etc)? why did he die so young? 

[956 Worldwide 34444]

2 hours ago, mchookem said:

so many questions...did they bring the prince back to 'save' him after his father shot himself? was he enslaved? where was the rest of his family (mother, etc)? why did he die so young? 

That’s the most amazing part. The emperor who offed himself had directed his wife to turn the kid over to the British because he was afraid that the other contenders for the throne would kill him. So she did. 
 

He was not enslaved, the British had never had it at a large scale in the home islands. It’s abolition was established common law, a plantation owner brought a slave back to to England then tried to sell him in the colonies and a court told him “there are no slaves in England.” This was deep in the 19th century and the Royal Navy had already basically ended the overseas slave trade worldwide. That’s why they couldn’t intervene on behalf of the Confederacy, despite having economic interests and an inkling to do so— the Brits  were hell bent on wiping slavery out. 
 

They took him back to England and Queen Victoria took a liking to him, had him enrolled in the best schools, like Rugby, and wanted to make a military officer out of him. He died of one of those pre-industrial diseases like lung inflammation or something, although he apparently had not been super happy in England.  Queen Victoria had him buried at Windsor and dedicated a plaque to him. 
 

For sure, this story if full of all sorts “the past is a different country” type of problematic stuff. But it’s not the worst side of the British Empire, by a long shot— if you squint hard enough, you can see people trying to do the right thing. For sure, you can’t chalk it up to rapacious colonialism. 

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