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That little girl has always been my harshest bully, but i can’t blame her. She learned it from the other kids. I have to love her even though she hates me.
Edit for clarity: “that little girl” refers to me as a child. My inner child hates me. I struggle with self love.
And if someday the uncertainty of this world becomes too overwhelming, I hope you remember that some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved, they’re meant to be lived.
There are good people everywhere.
I am so proud to Reblog this story on my timeline. A beautiful share and worthy of any Reblog it receives. All honor.
There is beauty and kindness in this world, Dale Legacy is one of kindness and selflessness, what a beautiful and rewarding gesture, I pray that all of "Dale's kids" have a fulfilling and blessed life.❤
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"Some facts about our beloved Queen who passed last Thursday.
Elizabeth II was born less than 23 years after the Wright brothers carried out the first ever powered flight. Four of Queen Victoria's children were still alive when she was born. The last one of them died in 1944 when Elizabeth was already 18.
She lived for more than a third of the entire age of the United States (1776) - a nation which is only 246 years old. And well over half the age of Canada (1867), and all but 25 years of the nation of Australia (1901).
She became Queen at the age of just 25, when Stalin and Truman were also in post, just 7 years after the end of WWII.
Her first Prime Minister was born in 1874. Yes, the 1800s!!!
Her last PM was born only two years before her Silver Jubilee in 1975 - so her first and last PMs were born over 100 years apart!
She was already 51 when she celebrated that first Jubilee in 1977.
Ruling in her own right (with no regent, like Louis XIV had for 13 years), she was the longest reigning monarch in World history, no matter what Wikipedia says. In my book, Regencies don't really count as "doing the job" - you don't really 'rule' when you're only 4 years old, like he was!
She lived through three kings herself before she even took the throne - George V, Edward VIII, and her father George VI
She saw the jet age arrive, the birth of electronic computing, and the space age - all before she was 35 years old.
She ruled for 70 years at the age of 96, more than 35 years after the age at which most people retire.
Her reign is over 7% of the entire history of Britain since William the Conqueror took the crown - 956 years ago - and that's considering that we've had 41 monarchs in that time. So, on a pro-rata basis, each reign would only be 23 years. So, she's done the equivalent of over three tours of duty.
So, yeah, she certainly *was* Great Britain and everything that we've seen and grown up with. She was with us through, literally, all we've ever known in living memory.
Her selfless service to this country was simply astonishing, when she could have 'retired' from the job decades ago and enjoyed some well-deserved rest.
She is now a huge part of British history herself, there is no 'was' about it anymore. She *is* and will remain an integral component of this country, having overseen an amazing Elizabethan Age.
I am glad to have lived in her reign, and witnessed it, in spite of the country's broken heart.
As she said herself "Grief is the price we pay for love."
Rest in Peace Ma'am with your beloved Philip.
Your duty has been done, multiple times over."
This is happening in the UK. This is absolutely vile. Abortions are not political its a personal choice. In a perfect world I would be anti Abortions, but we do not live in a perfect world we live in a world, were we are struggling to afford electricity and basic essentials, we live in a world were rape happens. How can we possible bring a child in a world were they will go hungry, cold, without essentials. How can we bring a child into the world were they will put into Foster care. How can we ask a woman to continue with a pregnancy when that pregnancy can be dangerous to their health, were it could lead to their death. How could we tell a rape victim that they must have their rapist child. Its all pro life until the child is born and then it's no longer there problem. If they were truly pro life they would be doing something about the children that are starving, the children that are being abused, neglected. If they were truly pro life they would be doing something for those that already here, breathing and trying to survive. If they were truly pro life they would understand the living breathing woman have more right than that of a fetus.
Scottish Crown Jewels, or more recently and more formally known as Honours Of Scotland are regalia that were worn by Scottish kings and queens at their coronations. Kept in Edinburgh Castle, they date from the 15th and 16th centuries, and are the oldest surviving set of crown jewels in the British Isles.
The Stone of Scone —also known as the Stone of Destiny, and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone—is an oblong block of red sandstone that has been used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland.
Scotland's Monarchy
House of Alpin (848–1034)
House of Dunkeld (1034–1286)
House of Sverre (1286–1290)
First Interregnum (1290–1292)
Monarchy of Scotland restored
House of Balliol (1292–1296)
Second Interregnum (1296–1306)
Monarchy of Scotland restored (second time)
House of Bruce (1306–1371)
House of Balliol (1332–1356)
House of Stewart/Stuart (1371–1651)
Third Interregnum (1651–1660)
Monarchy of Scotland restored (third time)
House of Stuart restored (1660–1707)
With the Scottish Restoration, the Stuarts became Kings of Scotland once more but Scotland's rights were not respected. During the reign of Charles II, the Scottish Parliament was dissolved and James was appointed Governor of Scotland. James II himself became James VII in 1685. His Catholicism was not tolerated, and he was driven out of England after three years. In his place came his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, the ruler of the Dutch Republic. The two were accepted as monarchs of Scotland after a period of deliberation by the Scottish Parliament and ruled together as William II and Mary II.
An attempt to establish a Scottish colonial empire through the Darien Scheme, in rivalry to that of England, failed, leaving the Scottish nobles who financed the venture for their profit bankrupt. This coincided with the accession of Queen Anne, daughter of James VII. Anne had multiple children but none of these survived her, leaving as her heir her half-brother, James, then living in exile in France. The English favored the Protestant Sophia of Hanover (a granddaughter of James VI) as heir. Many Scots preferred Prince James, who as a Stuart was a Scot by ancestry, and threatened to break the Union of Crowns between England and Scotland by choosing him for themselves. To preserve the union, the English elaborated a plan whereby the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England would merge into a single Kingdom, the Kingdom of Great Britain, ruled by a common monarch, and with a single Parliament. Both national parliaments agreed to this (the Scots albeit reluctantly, motivated primarily by the national finances), and some subterfuge as a total majority of signatories were needed to ratify the Scottish parliament's assent, bribes, and payments. Thereafter, although monarchs continued to rule over the nation of Scotland, they did so first as monarchs of Great Britain, and from 1801 of the United Kingdom.
King James VI was the last true king of scotland.
Catherine, Princess Of Wales
Mistreatment from the press
On 17 October 2005, she complained through her lawyer about harassment from the media, stating she had done nothing significant to warrant publicity and complained that photographers were permanently stationed outside her flat.
From 2005 to 2006, Middleton's phone was hacked 155 times
Media attention increased around the time of her 25th birthday in January 2007, where twenty photographers and five television crews photographed her leaving for work
In September 2012, the French edition of Closer and the Italian gossip magazine Chi, published photographs of Catherine sun-bathing topless while on holiday at the Château d'Autet
In December 2012, two Australian radio hosts, Michael Christian and Mel Greig, called King Edward VII's Hospital where Catherine was an in-patient for hyperemesis gravidarum. Pretending to be the Queen and the Prince of Wales, Greig and Christian spoke to a nurse on Catherine's ward, enquiring about her condition.
In February 2013, Chi published the first photos of Catherine's exposed baby bump, taken during her vacation on the private island of Mustique. The British press refused to publish the paparazzi shots
While Catherine was visiting the Blue Mountains in Sydney, a picture was taken of her bare bottom as her dress blew up. Many newspapers outside the UK published the picture.
In October 2014, Catherine and William sent a legal letter to a freelance photographer who had put their son George and his nanny "under surveillance", asking the individual to stop "harassing and following" them.
In May 2020, Kensington Palace said that the cover story of Tatler magazine titled 'Catherine the Great' contained "a swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentations". Despite the palace's statement that most of the material was not given to them before publication, the magazine's editor-in-chief announced that he would stand behind the story as the palace had been aware of it for months.
Kate was often called derogatory names, in hopes that she would get angry and retaliate, start crying, or make an ugly face. "For nearly five full years, Kate was chased, harangued, dogged and generally harassed by certain quarters of the media," Elser wrote in the New Zealand Herald.
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton
A lot of people attack Catherine, and one of their favourite insults to use, is to call her lazy. There are many people out there that truly belive that Catherine hadn't worked before marrying William. So for those that are in doubt, I'm happy happy prove you wrong.
Despite being offered a seat at the University of Edinburgh, she took a gap year, studying at the British Institute of Florence in Italy and travelling to Chile to participate in a Raleigh International programme.
She worked as a deckhand at the Port of Southampton in the summer preceding university.
She worked part-time as a waitress during her studies.
Catherine was an active member of The Lumsden Club, which held fundraisers and community projects each year.
In 2006, Catherine commenced part-time work for twelve months as an accessory buyer with the clothing chain Jigsaw
In 2007, she curated a photography exhibition to mark the book launch of "Time to Reflect", by Alistair Morrison, to raise funds for UNICEF.
In 2008, Middleton made several trips to Naomi's House Hospice, where she brought gifts and read to children.
she organised an '80s-themed roller disco fundraiser which raised £100,000, split between Oxford Children's Hospital, for the construction Tom's Ward to treat pediatric cancer, and Place2Be, an organisation which provides mental health counselling to school children.
Middleton also worked until January 2011 at the family business in catalogue design and production, marketing, and photography.
While working for the company, she launched the firm's junior brand for toddlers, and began working with the Starlight Children's Foundation, which helps terminally ill youth, providing party essentials for sick children.
Middleton also helped coordinate the Boodles Boxing Ball, which raised money for the charity.
And she did all of this Before she Married Prince William.
The world and its history on Slavery.
The History of Slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Moreover, its casualties have come from numerous diverse ethnicities and devout bunches.The social, economic, and lawful positions of subjugated individuals have contracted unfathomably in several frameworks of slavery in diverse times and places. Slavery was relatively rare in pre-civilisation hunter-gatherer populations, as it creates beneath conditions of social stratification. Slavery operated in the first civilizations (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, which dates back as distant as 3500 BCE). Servitude highlights in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BCE), which alludes to it as an built up institution. Slavery was far reaching within the antiquated world. It was found in nearly each antiquated civilization, counting the Roman Realm. It got to be less common all through Europe amid the Early Middle Ages, in spite of the fact that it kept on be practised in a few regions. Both Christians and Muslims captured and oppressed each other amid centuries of fighting within the Mediterranean. Islamic slavery encompassed primarily Western and Central Asia, Northern and Eastern Africa, India, and Europe from the 7th to the 20th century. Starting within the 16th century, European vendors got involved with the transatlantic slave exchange, obtaining oppressed Africans from West African kingdoms and transporting them to Europe's colonies within the Americas. The transoceanic slave exchange was in the long run abridged due to European and American governments passing legislation abolishing their nation's inclusion in it. In spite of the fact that slavery is not legal in anyplace within the world, human trafficking remains an worldwide issue. An evaluated 25-40 million individuals were subjugated as of 2013, the majority of these in Asia. Amid the 1983–2005 Moment Sudanese Gracious War, people were taken into slavery. Evidence emerged within the late 1990s of systematic child servitude and trafficking on cacao manors in West Africa. Slavery within the 21st century proceeds and produces $150 billion in annual profit. Populations in regions with armed conflict are particularly defenseless, and advanced transportation has made human trafficking simpler. In 2019, there were an assessed 40 million individuals around the world subject to some form of servitude - 25% were children. Sixty-one percent are utilized for constrained labor, generally within the private segment. Thirty-eight percent live in forced marriages. Other types of modern slavery are child soliders, sex trafficking, and sexual servitude.
I keep saying No country is innocent of evil deeds and how all countries in history has blood on their hands. This is my blog and what I decide to post is my choice, but I would never post lies or misinformation. Knowledge is the greatest power we as human beings could ever have. I belive in facts, I belive in the truth, even if the truth doesn't always shine a good light to my own country. So with everyone attacking the British at the moment and acting like the brits were the only empire in history I would like to share some history facts on my page. Britian was not one of the first colonial empires, but it was the largest and I won't dispute that. Britian is no innocent and had a very bloody and atrocious history, I am not trying to excuse that. All I'm trying to do I share knowledge and hope that the generations that are living and breathing on this earth today will realise that all countries have horrific and vile pasts, are responsible of thousands and millions of deaths, regardless of there tactics. All countries have also done extremely amazing things that have benefited us today. To continue to focus on the bad we are leading ourself to a trap of repeating history. History always repeats itself. Can we stop being divided by our ethnicity, religion, culture, gender and society. Accept that all of iur ancestors were apart of something bad at one point in history.
These below are some of the empires that I have been taught about, and there some of the most historically important one.
The Portuguese empire was one of the longest-lived empires in European history, lasting almost six centuries from the conquest of Ceuta in North Africa, in 1415, to the transfer of sovereignty over Macau to China in 1999. The empire began in the 15th century, and from the early 16th century it stretched across the globe, with bases in North and South America, Africa, and various regions of Asia and Oceania. The Portuguese Empire colonised over 50 Countries. The Portuguese empire started in 1415 and ended in 1999.
The Spanish Empire was one of the longes-lived empires, in European history along side the Portuguese empire. The Spanish Empire was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its predecessor states between 1492 and 1976. One of the largest empires in history, it was, in conjunction with the Portuguese, the first to usher the European Age of Discovery and achieve a global scale, controlling vast portions of the Americas, territories in Western Europe, Africa, and various islands in Oceania and Asia. It was one of the most powerful empires of the early modern period, becoming the first known empire as "the empire on which the sun never sets", and reached its maximum extent in the 18th century. The Spanish Empire started in 1492 and ended in 1976. The Spanish Empire once had up to 35 colonies throughout the world, some of which it still governs today. To this day Spain still holds territories abroad, in places like Ceuta and melilla in North Africa.
The French colonial empire, comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First French Colonial Empire", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost or sold, and the "Second French Colonial Empire", which began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830. At its apex between the two world wars, the second French colonial empire was the second-largest colonial empire in the world behind the British Empire. The first french empire started in 1804 and ended in 1814 and at its height in 1812, the French Empire had 130 departments and a population of 44 million people, it ruled over 90 million subjects, maintained an extensive military presence in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland, and counted Austria and Prussia as nominal allies. The Second French empire started in 1852 and ended in 1870. There are 63 former French colonies. France still has 13 other terrorites across the globe to this day.
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous land empire in history.Originating in present-day Mongolia in East Asia, the Mongol Empire at its height stretched from the Sea of Japan to parts of Eastern Europe, extending northward into parts of the Arctic eastward and southward into parts of the Indian subcontinent, attempted invasions of Southeast Asia and conquered the Iranian Plateau; and westward as far as the Levant and the Carpathian Mountains. The Mongol Empire started in 1206 and ended in 1368. Historians regard the Mongol devastation as one of the deadliest episodes in history. Due to the lack of contemporary records, estimates of the violence associated with the Mongol conquests vary considerably. Not including the mortality from the Plague in Europe, West Asia, or China it is possible that between 20 and 57 million people were killed between 1206 and 1405 during the various campaigns of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, and Timur. The havoc included battles, sieges, early biological warfare,[43] and massacres.
The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, was an empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt (modern-day Bilecik Province) by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I.After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe and, with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror.Over a time span of six hundred years, from about 1300 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire expanded into the largest political entity in Europe and western Asia and then imploded and disappeared into the back pages of history.The empire was at the center of interactions between Eastern and Western civilization for six centuries. The Ottoman Empire contained all or parts of Turkey, Russia, The Ukraine, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Romania, Jordan, and many more.
The Belgian Empire , known as the Belgian colonial empire, consisted of overseas colonies and protectorates controlled by Belgium. During its colonisation era, Belgium controlled several colonies and concessions, principally the Belgian Congo (modern DRC) from 1908 to 1960, and Ruanda-Urundi (modern Rwanda and Burundi) from 1922 to 1962. It also had a small concessions in Guatemala (1843–1854) and in China (1902–1931) and was a co-administrator of the Tangier International Zone in Morocco. Roughly 98% of Belgium's overseas territory was just one colony (about 76 times larger than Belgium itself) – known as the Belgian Congo. The colony was founded in 1908 following the transfer of sovereignty from the Congo Free State, which was the personal property of Belgium's king, Leopold II. Under the rule of the Congo Free State, which began in 1885, the Congolese people were subjected to widespread atrocities. Killings, famines, and diseases caused the deaths of as many as 10 million people. The local people were forced to trade ivory, rubber and minerals.
The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1913 the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23 per cent of the world population at the time,and by 1920 it covered 35.5 million km2 (13.7 million sq mi), 24 per cent of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its constitutional, legal, linguistic, and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", as the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories. The first British Empire started in 1707 and ended in 1783, the second British Empire started in 1783 to 1815. The British Empire was the largest of its kind in history, and once covered about one quarter of all the land on Earth. There are 90 former colonies of the British Empire today. There are a total of 14 Overseas Territories that have retained a constitutional link with the UK.
Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson, an elder of the Yarawu people, and an Aboriginal delegation met the Queen in 1999
During the ABC documentary, The Queen and Us, Mr Dodson - who is now a federal Labor senator - said: 'We got in there and we were totally disarmed.
'It's a funny thing, to feel a bit emotional about it, because she was so welcoming.
'And she thanked us for coming. And, she ... I think for the first time in our lives, we were treated properly.'
'She treated us as human beings.'
Got a lump in my throat, because in one way how lovely was that and how great is our queen but on the other hand how heartbreaking that someone being kind and welcoming to this lovely man and his people was so emotional and shocking, to him.
I've spent these last few days going from sadness to angry over Her Royal Highness The Queen Elizabeth death and the certain reactions and vile comments made about her. But I also see these comments for what they are, uneducated and they come from a place of hurt. I am aware of what the British Empire stands for to many people out there. And while there is many parts of my history (I'm scottish, not English but still considered british) I'm proud of, there is also a lot that sickens and shames me. And I think that to those people who have been hurt by the British Empire it is easy to blame the queen she is the only one that lived to this time to blame, and I'm not going to pretend that the monarchy didn't benefit from the colonisation, but the Queen was not a colonisers. So I would like to remind and or educate some to the accomplishments of My Queen, Britain's Queen, THE Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth The Second.
Queen Elizabeth inherited the Crown in 1952, and by that time the Monarchy had very little power and authority. But she used what power and sway she had to do incredibly good things.
When in 1939 the Second World War broke out, Princess Elizabeth was only 13 years old. And when Buckingham Palace was Bombed, Her Father and Mother refused to leave their people and in doing so they choose to remain, but sent their two daughter away to safety. In 1944 Princess Elizabeth wanted to enlist and Help her people and country, when she came of age, of course her father was against that, as a father who didn't want his daughter in danger but also as the King who couldn't have his Heir in danger. Our Princess did not allow that to stop her and In 1945, when she was 18, Elizabeth was given permission to join the military effort. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Territory Service (ATS), and trained as an auto mechanic. And while that was not a combat role is was still an important and vital role, it also came with risks and danger, as at least 335 members of the ATS, were killed during the war.
A funny story, after the war in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth was 19 and her sister Princess Margaret was 14, they snuck into the streets of london and celebrated with their people, by dancing (Princess Margaret did the hokey pokey and took part in the chant of "we want the king" at the Palace railing. They both also took part and danced the conga through the ritz hotel . And shockingly none of the brits realised that it was their princesses among them)
In 1952 the British Empire was in rapid decline, with former colonies breaking away declaring themselves independent states, starting with India in 1947. And while the the process of the Commonwealth began in the late 19th century, it was really Queen Elizabeth that guided the country through a rapid acceleration of the process.
When in 1952 Queen Elizabeth was crowned, the Commonwealth has only eight member states, but today, there is 54 member states. Which means Queen Elizabeth seen to a process in which practically the entire British Empire transformed into a voluntary association of sovereign nations. Her own authority became largely ceremonial, and the British "empire" is down to just a few islands scattered around the globe, which I believe should have their choice of whether to stay or leave.
The Kingdom of England dates back thousand of years, and Elizabeth was one in a line of monarchs that dates back to 1066, when william the conqueror invaded the island. (That was Elizabeth line, not to be confused with the English and the Scottish Monarchy that truthed be told is really confusing to explain but basically the kingdom of England was created in the 10th century by the west saxon Kings when they extended their powers to Southern Britain. And the Scottish Monarchy was started by the first king of Scots Kenneth I MacAlpin ( Cınàed mac Ailpìn), who in 843 founded the Kingdom of Scotland. And then we had what was known as the union of the crown in 1603 when King John VI of Scotland was also crowned King of England due to Queen Elizabeth I of England dying without Heirs or husband so it was given the Scottish King John VI who was her Cousin and he basically became the last true king of Scotland. The unione of crowns also happened before england and scotland became the United Kingdom of britian and was still very much two separate and independent countries. Hope I explained it well but I thought it was important to explain exactly how old the monarchy is and not just The Queen Elizabeth II line in the monarchy.)
When King George VI, Elizabeth father took the throne, there was worry and uncertainty that the monarchy would survive. So while king George VI provided stability to His people, it really was our Queen Elizabeth II that saved the monarchy.
Her Majesty, stabilised the monarchy and modernised it, she was aware that her people wanted to see her so she appeared on television regularly, and spoke directly to the people, her people. She wasn't scared to embrace technology and infact in 2013 it was the Queen herself that sent the first royal tweet, she was also the first ever monarchy to record her Christmas message on film. And her Highness was a Christian, and while her belief caused her to hurt her loved ones (Princess Margaret and not allowing her to marry her love due to him being a divorcee, that she later came to regret deeply) she evolved and adjusted her approach to divorce, accepting that it was common and evening allowing and approving it to happen in her own family, her three out of four children are divorced. And allowing her grandson to marry a divorcee (harry and meghan). And in 2013 The Queen gave he approval of same sex marriage by signing the legislation Bill to allow same sex marriage. And When the Crown Act 2013 was passed it was known to be hugely due to her Majesty cooperation and influence. The Crown Act 2013 was important and symbolical as it, as it ended centuries of English history of the eldest son of a monarch being heir to the throne even if he had an older sister. So you know a great step on gender equality.
She was also the first ever monarch to address the Congress, it was in 1991 and by the THREE standing ovations it was a success.
The relationship between the Republic of Ireland and The British is a hard one to speak about. The conflict between the Irish and the brits was bloody and bitter. The English dominated the Irish for centuries and was the cause of the rift between the southern and northern island causing death, blood and war. Southern Ireland broke away and because the Republic of Ireland. (And if any Irish are reading this I would like say im sorry for scotlands part in it. As a scot I love Ireland, its country, its people, its language and scenery basically everything about it, and I hate to be one of those people, but my grandfather on my mother's side is a direct desendents of Irish parents who immigrated to Scotland, and my grandmother of my mother side grandparents immigrated to Scotland from Ireland,tho my father's side is completely scotland for hundreds of generations, so I'm not claiming to be Irish, I'm just proud of that fact)
The relation between the Republic of Ireland and britian, their previous imperial master, were marked by violence and death for decades and it resulted in a war between both sides of Ireland cause so much pain that is still felt to this day.
Which made Queen Elizabeth II's state visit to Ireland in 2011 an incredible achievement. She was the first monarch to make an official visit to the island since its independence.
her somber appearance at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was a sensation in Ireland. She placed a wreath at the monument to those who died fighting the U.K. for Irish freedom and bowed her head respectfully. Many Irish took this as a subtle signal that the Queen acknowledged her own country's misdeeds.
According to The Guardian, the trip and the gesture made Queen Elizabeth II incredibly popular in a country that typically despised the monarchy as a former oppressor. The trip was an incredible achievement, especially considering that the queen had no true political power and somehow reset relations between the two countries simply by showing respect.
One of Queen Elizabeth's greatest achievements was a cumulative one: the sheer amount of effort she put into supporting various charities. She arguably did more for charity than any other monarch in history.
Queen Elizabeth was credited with being one of the greatest supporters of charity work in the world. According to Borgen Magazine, she supported more than 600 charities in Britain (the royal family as a whole officially supports nearly 3,000 charities around the world). The queen was responsible at least in part for raising an eye-popping £1.4 billion (close to $2 billion). The queen made it a special focus of her life to help reduce poverty.
While many don't like how expensive it is to uphold the monarchy and how the people have to pay for them, the Queen herself after a traditional waiver was lifted in the 1990s, moved quickly to pay taxes on royal income that had been exempt for years, according to Town and Country Magazine. And British Heritage notes that by getting rid of expensive things like the royal yacht, she was able to reduce the cost of the royal family by several million pounds annually.
one of the great and severy overlooked and just plain ignored achievements of the queen was the quiet work she did over the years to support racial equality and advancement in the world.
Queen Elizabeth's work began in her early years. In 1961, she danced with the president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, a Black man. This outraged many racists both in her own kingdom and the larger Commonwealth, but the queen was resolute in her support of equality. And she worked behind the scenes to get the Commonwealth to condemn South Africa's apartheid system, only to be stymied by her own prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who opposed the statement for reasons both personal and political.
And Margaret Thatcher was a grade A bitch who no one liked and when she died all of britian had street party's and bon fires, the song "ding dong the witch is dead" was number one, so that tells you all you need to know about her.
the queen also supported the Black Lives Matter movement.
Queen Elizabeth has been credited with using her influence to pressure the South African government over its institutionalized racist segregation. Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, for instance, has described her as a "behind-the-scenes force" in helping to bring an end to South African apartheid. She worked behind the scene in the case of South Africa to offer encouragement to Nelson Mandela.
"When Queen Elizabeth gave Royal Assent to The Race Relations Act 1968, an Act of the Parliament making it illegal to refuse housing, employment, or public services to a person on the grounds of colour, race, ethnic or national origins in Great Britain; Queen Elizabeth wrote into the Commonwealth Charter that racial equality is a cornerstone of membership. A cornerstone she respected by backing African Leaders in the expulsion and sanctioning of Apartheid South Africa, that almost toppled the British Government, as HMTQ was in direct conflict with Margaret Thatcher, who wanted South Africa’s natural resources.
From 1953 to 1968 Queen Elizabeth dismantled the Imperial Court of the United Kingdom, ending its practices of refusing to employ people of colour in household positions. The Duke of Edinburgh was instrumental to these changes, famously penning a letter describing his disgust at the way the Maori people were being treated by New Zealand. A disgust he made very clear on his many visits to both Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, where he made many enemies by championing the lives of indigenous peoples. Something still celebrated today in the Pacific Islands, for instance on the visit to the Pacific islands by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were given a traditional greeting of being carried on thrones as a mark of respect. The Duke and Duchess, despite appearing uncomfortable, respected these local traditions so as not to be insensitive and dismissive of a different culture.
The Commonwealth is Queen Elizabeth’s most cherished organisation due to its ability to navigate the political landscape, ensuring the flow of the most precious resource, knowledge. This ability of course is a reflection of Queen Elizabeth’s ability to ride over petty politics and enormous egos of politicians. Her leadership in fighting discrimination and racism in real terms through the Commonwealth Charter set her apart from other world leaders in the West, who would take another 20-30 years to catch up and in the case of the United States it took until 2022 to decide lynching is a Federal crime! "
(The last two paragraphs in quote marks, is not my own word but one I got from Duke Pantalaimon’s Blog, the links not working but it's a lovely blog and full of interesting articles.)
And to finish my post I would like to share a story I've just learned about the queen.
There is a man called michael fagan, and if anyone is reading this you should definitely google him. He broke in to Buckingham Palace twice. The first time, he wandered about eating cheese and crackers, got bored and left. But the second time happend, same year 1982, he simmed up a drain pipe and broke into the queen bedroom, where she was laying in her bed. He was going to cut his wrists In front of her, but she thankfully managed to get security.
There has been three known assassination attempts made on the queen. Once in a train, involving putting a log on the tracks, once on horse when a man fired six shot at her and she managed to keep her seat on the horse while police sorted the man and once at a public appearance overseas, where thankfully then was to far away.
Princess Ann also had a kidnapping attempt which led to 5 people being shot. She managed to keep her calm and have a reasonable conversation with the man and calmly telling him she wasn't going with him, she speaks out that on a interview, if you YouTube it.
Her Majesty the Queen, has served britian with devotion, faith and strength and we thank her for that. Not everyone has to like her, but a bit on human decency wouldn't go amis.
Thank you, your Highness, for all that you did, for all that you were and all that you stood for. God bless you, you promised to serve us until you died and you did. I will be forever thankful for you devotion to our country. Be at rest with your dear Philip, we will carry on.
The whole meghan and kate thing really does my head in. You have a bunch of sugars insulting degrading, abusing kate, taking enjoyment from her pain, insulting her family, her children, her looks and just about everything else about her. You have a bunch of horrible people excusing their nastiness by saying if kate hadn't said this or done that they wouldn't be doing this, and yet there is zero proof of kate and William doing or saying anything negative to or about harry and meghan, just tabloids and gossip rags (rags that if they print anything negative about meghan and harry are obviously lies and yet if it's negative about william and kate it must be the truth). And yet they have the audacity to call themselves feminist. They attack literal children, mock the death of a husband, father and grandfather and look forward to the death of a mother and grandmother. They shit all over Britain history (and listen as a proud Scottish women I'm allowed to bad mouth the monarchy, I'm allowed to have doubts and fears and be annoyed with the money they spend. As a scottish women I am allowed to have an opinion on American politics but I should also mind my lane and not call for their president to be killed or attack their family's,or destroy their democracy, I'm allowed to disagree with their amendments but also respect that it is AMERICANS amendments and its something that Americans deeply belive in and as a scottish person I can have a personal view but that's all it is and I will never try and attack their basic rights, whereas those american sugars attack MY monarchy MY tradionals MY history, and try and abolish and attack our queen and we as Britain's are supposed to be okay with that?) And if we have anything negative to say about meghan and harry we are racists? And btw that take the power out of that word in my opinion. If you accuse everyone of rasicms because you don't agree with what their saying then your taking the power out of the word, no one going to take it serious anymore, and people are just going to roll their eyes and say ay right, when that word should have power, it should hold force and have consequences because yes of course rasicm is wrong, but if your going to use your race as a weapon then people are going to get fed up with it because at the end of the day a person can be a horrible person regardless of their skin colour, and they should be called out for their bad behaviour and conduct. No one on this earth should get away with doing bad things simply because of their skin tone, white or black.
