Annie Lennox, whose grandparents worked for the royal family, had multiple interactions with Queen Elizabeth II over the years. She tells us about meeting the Queen, receiving an OBE and her conflicted feelings about the monarchy.
Did that impact your view of the monarchy?
I’m not anti-monarchy, but I have some criticism too. So you know, the fact that the royal family represents colonialism, they represent empire, and dreadful things of the slave trade era and all the conquests. It’s a very hard thing to reconcile, in this day and age, especially. Right up to today, the Queen represented the Commonwealth, and the attitudes from the Royal Family to the Commonwealth have changed over the years enormously.
I was invited for a reception for South Africans in the UK. I’m not South African but at that point I was campaigning very intensively on behalf of women and children who were living with HIV. And a lot of that work was centered in South Africa. At that point, I wore my T-shirt every time I ever showed up for anything, because basically, I felt I could represent the cause that I was advocating for by wearing the shirt.Some people might think so.
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