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>>xd+(OP)
I realise she has just died and it's unbecoming to do anything but laud the person, but this is just moral obsequiousness.

She claims fealty by right of blood, reigned as the crown of an extraordinarily cruel empire, and frequently interceded in the democratic government of Britain to protect her private interests.

>>Emma_G+wd
Elizabeth II was the most decolonial monarch in history. Almost all our colonies gained their independence during her reign, and insofar as the empire was "extraordinary cruel", almost all of that cruelty occurred before her reign.

By all means let's have a reasoned discussion about the legacy of the empire, but this is not the place.