The death of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch at age 96 was met with an outpouring of tributes from people around the world mourning her passing.
“We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and Africa's history,” the statement said. “During her 70-year reign as Queen, she never once acknowledged the atrocities that her family inflicted on native people that Britain invaded across the world.
For longtime royal watchers, some of the criticism of the queen and monarchy is justified — and some is unfair.“We can’t and shouldn’t deny the actions of history,” Myko Clelland, an expert on British royalty and director of content for MyHeritage.com, told Yahoo News.
“Queen Elizabeth lived through tumultuous times,” he said. “She did not intervene as the Empire became the Commonwealth, and nations decided to take control of their own affairs. Centuries before, we may have seen different actions.”In 1986, amid a groundswell of global opposition to apartheid in South Africa, she wasat British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she refused to go along with sanctions.
The following year, the queen made headlines when she shook hands with Martin McGuinness, a former commander of the Irish Republican Army who had become deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. The IRA, a paramilitary group that waged a terrorist campaign to drive British forces from Northern Ireland,“We can only judge her on her own choices,” Clelland added.
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