The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II was held Monday, a solemn time for some, but just another Monday for me and the millions of others who inherited generational trauma bestowed by the Crown.
Yes, that’s right. I couldn’t care less about that supposedly monumental occasion, which engrossed the world and assembled leaders from every nook and cranny on Earth.
It seems that royalists have caught a glimpse of that morbidity reverberating on social media since the queen’s passing on Sept. 8 and they’ve definitely taken offense to this opposition.
However, this is a wonderful opportunity for a ragtag group of anti-monarchists to storm Buckingham Palace and England’s vaults and museums to retrieve our stolen properties.
It’s about time the Kohinoor diamond, an astonishing 186-carat diamond most likely discovered in South India, found its rightful place.
The diamond has been whittled to 105.6 carats with claims of India having gifted it to the imperialists. Now, it sits pretty on the queen’s crown.
I’ll be livid if this gem graces the new Queen Consort Camila Bowles’ head now.
If you’re going to parade a stolen gem, it’d probably be wiser that someone as distinguishable as Diana, Princess of Wales, were to adorn it but I guess killing the true queen of people’s heart is an eliminated threat.
So what, I’m a Princess Diana conspiracist. Sue me.
Anyways, she wouldn’t have worn it after recognizing the pain symbolized by this diamond.
The beautiful irony is Queen Elizabeth II will always be incomparable to the beloved Princess Diana, a woman who was despised by the Crown but cherished by its adversaries.
Diana was emblematic of everything the Crown is not – kind, considerate, and genuine.
And sure, Elizabeth might have been a great idol to many, but she’s a bigger enemy to most.
By the 1800s, the Crown played an overtly successful game of Risk.
According to historian Stuart Laycock, the British Empire plagued more than 90% of the world’s nations with their imperialistic views driven by its unsubstantiated superiority complex.
For royalists who want to decry that history, it’s shameful that their treasured royal’s mourning period has been enforced with absurd rules and closures.
Surgeries and doctor appointments were postponed and funerals were canceled, according to a Sept. 14 article by The Washington Post.
Even in death, the queen has managed to reiterate the conceitedness of the British Empire.
Regardless of the Monarchy’s unnerving colonialism, the queen was someone’s sister, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and cousin. That deserves some sort of sensitivity.
If only that adored family member wasn’t from a lineage determined to destroy the identity of my ancestors among millions of others.
Though I can’t speak for other countries, I can assert that the royal family displaced India with systemic issues drowning each passing generation.
They stripped elements of our culture they deemed primitive, left millions in famine and subjected us to their norms based on their belief of self-righteousness.
The British Empire devalued anything that hindered its progress, yet coveted and stole India’s jewels, spices and textiles to line its pretentious pockets.
Utsa Patnaik, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi published a study in 2019 with the Columbia Press Review noting that the British Empire took nearly $45 trillion from India between 1765-1938.
Today, India struggles with high levels of economic insecurity, houselessness and famine, yet the queen finished her reign with the Kohinoor diamond proudly embellishing her crown while shamelessly mocking us.
It’s difficult to be remorseful for a queen that was representative of the last vestige of true colonialist power.
So while monarchists continue to grieve, there’s validity in feeling relief for an end to an era of suppression and harm.
It’s time we recuperate: so who’s ready to clean out a British Museum?
