All this time African leaders were bewitched by Queen Elizabeth's smiles and charm to the extent none could lift a hand to talk reparation yet she was the easier monarch to discuss reparations with compared to racist King Charles who will never pay a dime.
Amidst conquests, looting aka thieving, and plundering Africa chaos was happening in England while Africans had no idea that colonialism was partially used by Europeans to divert probable political armagedons in their countries for decades - if not, centuries.
Many believe England has been a monarchy right from the get go under of the first ruler, King Æthelstan in 927 AD when several kingdoms in today's England merged under him. Thats the real reason it is called the United Kingdom (otherwise, United Kingdoms).
Many also believe that current and most recent Kings and Queens of England trace their blood lines to the first King.
Sorry...!!, wrong button.
And that is where we all get England. It wasn't ruled since 927 by the monarchy. It went through coups as well with the most notable led by Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell overthrew the monarchy in 1653 to rule as Lord Protecter until 1658 when ke kicked the bucket. When asked to assume the throne following the coup he chickened out. Oliver appointed Major Generals to head previous independent kingdoms who merged as England.
His son Richard who took ascended as Lord Protecter failed to rule and again the army under General Monk invited Charles I to become king as Charles II in 1603 marking the beginning of present royal family.
From 1649 to 1660 a period known as Interegnum (between the reigns), England was a Republic - like Kagutastan these days.
Yeap...!
Present royal family has absolutely no lineage or genetic lineage traceable to Æthelstan (Athelstan), the first King of England.
You can imagine how many unrelated Kings ruled England from its founding in 927 considering there wasn't a ruling family but there were Kings - and bloody takeovers. It was the reason Cromwell's son Richard inherited the Lord Protecter of the Republic aka, today's President.
Anyway, back to slavery, African leaders failed us. Time to recoup "lost wages" could have been successful under Quee Elizabeth and complicating matters is that England now has two (2) greedy monarchs - a King and a Queen being cohorts at the same time.
I never studied an iota of British history except being unknowingly led to read about it through Mwalimu William (Bill) Shakespeare because he was writing mostly about them in uncanny ways leading me to search, find, verify and confirm the real victims and perpetrators as well as their motives.
LOL...!
Anyway, story is, England's history from within and without colonies has not been smooth sailing
They have executed and murdered each other like African presidents. So before you blame African presidents for doing the Samuel Doe and the Gadhaffi among others, know where they learnt from Europe and mostly England
The French Revolution executed three at ago: King Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their son Louis XVII for - you can't imagine - treason.
"The only English monarchs who were executed per se were Lady Jane Grey (r. 1553, ex. 1554) and Charles I (r. 1625–1649, ex. 1649). Jane was executed for having "treacherously" assumed the title of queen; Charles for treason against England by having allegedly used his power to pursue his own interests rather than the good of the country.
Also, the Scottish monarch Queen Mary I (r. 1542–1567, ex. 1587) was executed for sanctioning a plot to assassinate her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England; Mary (and then her son James) were next in line for the English throne, so this was clearly treason as well.
Additionally, two (former) queens consort of Henry VIII were executed, Anne Boleyn (1536) and her first cousin Catherine Howard (1542), both having been convicted of adultery (which was seen as treason, as it could lead to the birth of a biologically non-royal heir.)
Other English monarchs were (at least likely) murdered in prison, but not strictly executed, including Edward II (1327), Richard II (1400), Henry VI (1471), and Edward V (1483). (The latter three on orders of their successors; Edward II probably on orders of his queen's alleged lover Roger Mortimer who had taken over the kingdom with her - Mortimer was soon thereafter executed by Edward's son, Edward III.)
Several other kings were assassinated, particularly Scottish kings, most recently James I (1437)."
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