A special Commemoration Service for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, will be held on Sunday, 25 September 2022, at 4 pm at the St George’s Anglican Church, Church Street, St George’s.
The public is invited to attend.
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Enough this royal affair…..
“TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS EXPECTED.” A more appropriate way of expressing this notion might be that: “By whom much has been taken (colonialism/enslavement), much should be given back (new world order/reparation). More to the point though, it might be said that as an individual, Elizabeth of the House of Windsor (the queen) might have been a lovely person. However, it is, indeed, appropriate to ask the question as to what she has actually done as head of one of the world’s longest established institution to merit the kind of sentiments and sensationalism expressed by so many of her so-called (hoodwinked and mesmerized) subjects. Going around shaking people’s hands (provided that they bow before you, and are wearing a pair gloves) might have been considered “hard work” for someone who has lived a life of privilege earned through the guile of her forebears. Also, making sure that every cup and saucer has been properly placed (according to tradition) on the occasion of a banquet for the ” world’s who’s who” might be considered another one of those difficult tasks that she was required to perform. Moreover, as the matriarch of the “royal family” (renowned for their breath-taking pomp and ceremony), she definitely has played a key role in attracting millions of visitors to Britain with the billions of pounds sterling they leave behind. But before your humble servant would join the expected “big crowd [to pay his respect] to our beloved queen,” there is one question that needs to be answered, viz. EXACTLY HOW HAS ELISABETH OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR AND HER COHORTS REALLY HELPED TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE? Probably Governor General Dame Cecile La Grenade (who might have already returned home after attending the “royal” funeral) and other awardees of the queen’s honours might accept the challenge of providing answers to this burning question. But until at least one positive answer could be provided, this writer certainly would not be in any rush to join the love fest.
The Queen has been the patron of hundreds of charities throughout her life, playing a major role in aiding fundraising for said charities and giving them protection. She was a key player in the Commonwealth opposing Apartheid in South Africa, with one of the rare times she ever uttered a political opinion being when she directed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to impose sanctions on the apartheid regime. She played a crucial role in fostering good relations between Britain, the realms and the countries of the commonwealth, and in aiding peaceful transitions to independence. Independence and anti-colonial leaders throughout the world, including here in the Caribbean, always found her extremely helpful and supportive, with many developing close friendships with her majesty, such as Nelson Mandela. She has been a defender of democracy, when for example in 2013 in Tuvalu she empowered her Governor-General to dismiss the island’s dictatorial prime minister and ensure constitutional government. In the United Kingdom in the 1960s she also supposedly quashed a planned military coup d’etat against prime minister Harold Wilson, when the planners of the coup asked her for support as commander in chief. Prime Ministers throughout the commonwealth have spoken about how much of an extremely knowledgeable person she was, and that she gave them very helpful and sound advice when asked. Daily she would work through the “Red Boxes”; large boxes of government documents, from both the UK and realms, requiring her scrutiny and approval, a job which took several hours each day, including on weekends and during her vacations. Her Majesty the Queen achieved extraordinary things during her reign.
Hi doc,
I take it that you didn’t appear in the Queen’s Honours list then?
She made the world a far better place for me.
I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be living in a Black country in the 21st century and the leading lights in that society que up to pay homage to a parasitical institution monarchy of thieves, who endorsed murder, issued the charter to commence the African Slave trade, gazed idly at genocidal starvation in Bengal and Biafra and upholds its legacy of white supremacy.
Buckingham Palace is a crime scene!
In my beloved Black Caribbean island nation educated, intelligent people in this Black shed tears when the ‘queen’ of that institution of parasites dies.
So profound is the power of monarchial white supremacy that we the hosts of the parasites are manipulated into feeling loss and grief when the monarch is dead instead of rejoicing that the institution of terror has lost its leader.
As one of my friends said recently, mourning the dead is a sign of respect for the passing of another being in the human family however, reminding ourselves of the horror of Elizabeth Windsor’s white supremacist institution which threatens to last forever, is a moral duty.
How full of hatred you are, and how lacking in historical knowledge. Her Majesty the Queen was no parasite, no murderer and no white supremacist. She never endorsed or supported any of the slanderous claims you make against her.
Her Majesty had a proven track record as a fighter for the rights of black Africans. One of the few times in her life she took a political position was when she in the 1980s pressured Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher into imposing sanctions on the Apartheid regime in South Africa. She threw her support wholeheartedly behind the black members of the commonwealth, including Grenada, in opposing the apartheid regime. Her and Nelson Mandela were close personal friends, with her famously referring to him simply as Nelson, and him to her as “My Elizabeth”. Her Majesty rejected and denounced the attempts by the separatist white minority government in Rhodesia, today’s Zimbabwe, from making her their queen in 1965.
To blame the queen and the monarchy of today for the Royal African Company (which did not commence the African slave trade, though were a major benefactor) established in 1660 by the now extinct House of Stuart, and who’s last royal involved was William III, whom died in 1701 and who isn’t even an ancestor of the current royal family, is insanity. You and I both, far back in our family trees, are almost guaranteed to have some connection to an African chief in Ghana or the Ivory Coast whom willingly and proudly sold our ancestors into slavery. Should I blame you for that? Or you me?
Her Majesty was anything but a white supremacist. She was a fighter for the right of black people throughout the commonwealth, including against her own British government. She enthusiastically supported the independence of colonies, including our islands here in the Caribbean, sending family members as representatives and congratulations if she could not be personally present. She embraced the first black member of her family, the Duchess of Sussex, as if she were her own. The duchess has herself spoken of this; of how warm and welcoming the queen was of her into the family.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a great woman.
Go in be a big crowd there, paying their respects to our beloved queen.