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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anybody answer some of the legit questions on this thread.

I'm interested in what the queen actually had the authority to do differently, substantively.

Could she have ordered the jewels and other artifacts to go back to the country where they came from?
What could she have done to end the colonization?

Other than the platform that she had to speak out against certain things (which is legit), how could she have directly affected change?[/quote]

The jewels do not belong to her.  Neither do most of what they have.  Queen had no real power.  George I was the last to lead troops in battle.  George III being a bit nuts lost a lot of the power.  Victoria lost the rest as she was too young and then closed herself off to the world after her husband died.  After that no real power.  By tradition and what they consider their constitution which is not written, she could take no political position without the ok of the government.   She could not give a speech and say should we give this stuff back without the ok of the government.  She had no platform.  Let’s say she wanted to go to India and say sorry.  She could not without the ok of the government.

Colonization?   There has been none new since wwI.  The country with her as queen granted independence to all that wanted it.  What are you talking about when you say colonization?

What was she?   A symbol.  We have a written constitution displayed.  Our military and gov workers swear to defend.   They don’t have that.   They have the king.  The king or queen is the glue that holds their system together.   [/quote]

None new? Is that your word salad way of spinning it to seem like it’s been all good since WWI?

I’m 43 years old and the first in my family, after many generations, to be born as not a colonized subject. Sins of the father are not magically erased when your still promoting the legacy as something worthy and living off the spoils.

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