Royal Family

The Queen is Dead. Good.

Let’s end the anachronism of monarchy once and for all

RIP, Elizabeth. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

On Thursday, three sons lost their beloved mother, while their children and their children’s children bid a final goodbye to their grandmother and great-grandmother. This is an undeniably sad event for the family, though, with the Queen being 96, perhaps not unexpected.

So believe me when I say, I take no joy in this family’s private loss. However, the royal family are not only private citizens but a public institution too. And for the loss of the Queen as a public figure, I rejoice.

Why? Purely for the hope that this might finally bring about the beginning of the end of the unfair, undemocratic establishment that keeps the UK stuck in the political dark ages.

All people are created equal but some are more equal than others

The Orwell (mis)quote is particularly appropriate here because being British is often an exercise in doublethink. We tend to have a strong sense of social justice and feel unfairness keenly, yet we’re perfectly happy to accept that the royal family are ‘born’ to rule over us.

You’re not better than me because you came out of a specific vagina