Beloved by her people, Queen Elizabeth II (RIP) was the longest reigning monarch of Great Britain. With her death, her eldest son, Prince Charles will be crowned King Charles III
Well! Will you look at that—I just condensed 80 turbulent years of history, inclusive of WW II into two sentences.
And so, to be even more specific, with the decline of the English empire, The UK is still doing well.
According to Wikipedia:
“The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy.[note 2][24][25] The capital and largest city is London, a global city and financial centre with a metropolitan area population of over 14 million. Other major cities include Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool and Leeds.[26]Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have their own devolved governments, each with varying powers.[27][28]
The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 formed the Kingdom of Great Britain. Its union in 1801with the Kingdom of Irelandcreated the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Most of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which formally adopted that name in 1927.”
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Just a glance over a time line concerning world history shows us how nations are formed and reformed as wars for domination vs independence are fought, here and there, everywhere, again and again, around the globe. And along with our own national reforms do we hope to see leadership within the USA serving to preserve laws set in place in hopes of opening the closed minds within our populous so as to soften more hearts to embracing folks whose inner needs naturally mirror our own.
Long live our inclusive enrichment of every immigrant, who—like all four of my grandparents—worked hard to provide a life free of vicious ‘progroms’ in hopes of settling their families within nation that modeled the creation of a better life for both of my parents who followed in their parents’ footsteps as do today’s ‘Dreamers’, born elsewhere but raised on USA soil (as was true of my mother and my father). My hat is off in respectful reverence of my family’s sojourn to The USA as well as respecting ‘The Dreamers’ who prove to be amongst the most industrious student/workers throughout our nation, roday.
Every vote cast for those who believe in the preservation of democratic principles is crucial, today, if we are determined to move forward rather than backward by over-turning long standing laws that reflect respect for every person’s life in these United States of America rather than reverting to laws upheld one hundred years ago when white supremacy’s inequalities had reigned supreme. As those who focus backward fall backward in time, I applaud those of us who lead by organizing marches that focus forward as was true of Reverend Martin Luther King.
Long live democratic principles that better your life, mine and that of our inclusive progeny, day in and day out.
🙋🏻♀️Annie
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