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👑 Is it too late to save the Commonwealth?, asks @mounth

The Cambridges’ slightly awkward reception in the Caribbean illustrates how much perception of the Monarchy has changed

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The optics of the royal tour of the Caribbean have not been great, writes @mounth

📷The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge looked more than a little awkward as they “shook their waists like nobody’s business” and played the drums in Belize and Jamaica

The royals’ visit coincided with a swelling wave of republicanism in the Caribbean.

🇧🇿 First, farmers in Belize, protesting about land rights, stopped the couple’s first appointment

🇯🇲Then, when the Cambridges got to Jamaica, Prime Minister Andrew Holness made it plain that the country’s true ambitions are “as an independent, developed, prosperous country”

Prince William did his best to fend off anti-colonialist attacks in his Jamaica speech, expressing his “profound sorrow” for slavery which “should never have happened”.

❓But was it too little too late?

👑Is the monarchy rapidly becoming an anachronism in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the Commonwealth?

And will the Commonwealth itself soon be a thing of the past – not just when the Queen sadly goes but even before that?

🗣️ “Once the Queen is gone, I suspect the Commonwealth will be finished. This Caribbean tour seemed patronising and outdated. Kate and William dancing and drum-beating was excruciating" says royal biographer Anna Pasternak

It is possible to maintain that umbilical link between the monarchy and the Commonwealth, writes @mounth

➡️But few would argue against a need for the monarch and their advisers to establish a modern and delicate balancing act – to maintain the Commonwealth as a club of equals

Read the full article from @mounth ⤵️
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