Let me try explain in short. The hatred is mainly in result of her being a bystander to Diana’s horrible marriage and contributor to Diana’s horrible life.
19 yr old Diana marries 30 yr old Charles. Arranged ish marriage.
Charles did not want to marry Diana. He was with his at the time gf, Camilla.
They got married anyways. The queen refused to let him marry Camilla.
Charles cheats on Diana throughout the marriage with the side chick Camilla (who has a whole ass husband and kids) and Diana cheats too. She’s miserable.
Charles mentally tortures Di to the point of an ED and anxiety and depression, etc.
Everyone in the castle know she’s miserable, but they have absolutely no sympathy for her. They’re cold. They tell her to stick it through.
Diana becomes more “rebellious” and starts doing things that are not what the royal family were a symbol of- hugging HIV patients, being a hands on mother, etc. The queen was “allegedly” against this humanitarian stuff that impacted tons of people.
Diana and Charles are EXTREMELY unhappy. They want to divorce. More so Charles. With the help of the queen, they end up divorced.
They divorce. Diana is paranoid. The result of her anxiety. She thinks that she’s being recorded, etc.
She does her famous interviews that you can find on YouTube. “Diana’s last interviews”, she talks about how she’d never be accepted properly in their family because of the stuff she’s done, but at least she’s the queen of peoples hearts, etc.
Diana dies.
The queen is essentially made by the people to publicly step out and look at all the flowers and stuff that the people set out for Diana on the way to Westminster Abbey, breaking royal protocol by bowing her head to Diana’s coffin. In my opinion, it was a rare human moment that we got to see from one of the royal family.
People suspect that Di was killed by someone in the royal family (Queen or Charles) or them as a whole. That’s another reason for the hate.
But for the most part, they hate the queen for what people see as “aiding” in Diana’s misery.
But how Diana truly felt about the queen is a different story. Some say she was terrified, others say she loved her. We don’t know.
Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me! Also I have reached a new level of hatred for the (former) Queen of England that I thought wasn't possible
Always funny to me how little addressing the Xingese plotline received for the whole “whichever of the 50 heirs can bring the secret of immortality to the Xingese emperor gets to be the next emperor.” As if the now-immortal emperor is just gonna nicey-wicey abdicate the throne for you. Like no you clown mountain, you made the dying old man immortal, you fool, you dunce. He’s gonna be the forever emperor forever now. Get the immortality for YOURSELF and kill the old man like any self respecting patricidal monarchist regime would.
This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).
Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”
This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.
edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.