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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edwin Rios

Queen’s death intensifies criticism of British empire’s violent atrocities

Members of the royal family gather on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as they watch a flypast in 2018.
Members of the royal family gather on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as they watch a flypast in 2018. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

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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