Queen’s death intensifies criticism of British empire’s violent atrocities
World news | The Guardian
American commentators, academics and others are calling into reconsideration of monarchy’s lasting influences
The death of Queen Elizabeth II revived longstanding criticism in the US over the monarchy’s enrichment from the British empire’s violent colonization of African, Asian and Caribbean nations and their diasporas.
Since her death on Thursday, American commentators, academics, and a former US diplomat, among others, took to social media and elsewhere to call for fully wrestling with the British monarchy’s lasting influence in light of the monarch’s death.
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