Arthur Greene
A traditional leader hailing from the UK (but who has roots in Germany) this weekend celebrates 70 years as queen — a celebration the natives are calling her Platinum Jubilee.
Queen Elizabeth II has ruled her tribe since 1952 and four days of celebrations kicked off on Thursday with a military display in front of Buckingham Palace.
Dressed in the vibrant colours of traditional royal costume, the great British Chieftaness and other members of her family, the Windsors, waved at their legions of adoring subjects as military aircraft performed a flypast.
The British Royal Family has for centuries taken pride in its military force, and the pomp with which it celebrates it is one of the reasons people across the world are fascinated with these extravagant rulers.
In no other place in the world would one find a royal guard wearing a 45 cm hat made of black bearskin. Although there are few guards around now, the ferocious warriors of the British Empire were once feared the world over.
In fact, later on Thursday there will be a ceremony in which beacons will be lit across the globe, from Jamaica to New Zealand and indeed South Africa, to celebrate this fearsome empire’s former military conquests.
To outsiders, this ritual may appear primitive and even bloodthirsty but one has to understand that strength is a key British value, alongside tolerance and respect for the rule of law.
Their generosity can be seen in the fact that they invented sporting spectacles that everyone in the world partakes in, but that they are not always very good at.
These people take pride in hoarding junk, the subject of many popular TV shows. The jubilee is an opportunity to accumulate more teaspoons and saucers with the queen’s face on and add it to the pile from all the other preceding jubilees.
They are stoic people, accustomed to drinking warm beer – which they will be toasting their queen with.
The Jubilee celebrations will continue across the weekend and on Friday, Her Majesty will attend the Service of Thanksgiving in St Paul’s Cathedral.
But on Saturday she will let her hair down. She will be greeted at the Epsom Derby Race with a traditional guard of honour. There, she’ll watch the ancient sport of horse racing, an exciting but barbaric sport in which horses are whipped by their riders to gallop at thrilling speeds.
In the evening, a concert will be held in front of the royal palace, where displays of primordial forms of music will be joined by performances by modern pop bands, such as Duran Duran”.
The celebrations will be dampened slightly by the news that the Queen’s favourite son, Prince Andrew, will not be able to attend the event as he has tested positive for Covid-19.
We wish the monarch and her subjects well in their long and worthy quest to become a civilised nation.
