The Queen’s Passing, The Royal Family & The Commonwealth Question
TO.P: One Lady Who Also Never Retired But Recently Left Us Nonetheless Is The Queen. What Have You Made of The Coverage Over The Last Couple of Weeks – Especially As You’ve Been To The Palace Having Received An MBE For Services To The Cooking Industry?
AH: “It Was So Emotional. If Anything I Just Border On The Generation Where There’s The Utmost Respect For The Queen. Where You Would Stand Up When The National Anthem Was On Telly. It Was Just Like Saying Grace Before You Ate.”
“I Watched All of It. I Was Transfixed. It Was A Sense of Pride. I Love The Way It Was Just Dedicated To Her. It Was Necessary. It Was Wonderful.”
“At One Stage When It Was On My Daughter Had To Cycle Somewhere And She Said The Roads Were Virtually Empty And Also Very Quiet.”
TO.P: What About The Very Blatant & Brutal Bullying Campaign Against Harry & Meghan By Some Quarters of The Press? We Are Sad That They Were So Upset That They Up And Left. That’s Why We Have Buckingham Palace In Darkness As Our Masthead. They Had To Do What Was Right For Them And Their Own Family. It Is Tragic That They Were Driven To That.
AH: I Think Every Family Has Issues. Hopefully Time Is A Great Healer. Princess Di Was Hounded By The Press. She Would Have Understood Them. We All Got Letters When The Phone-hacking Happened.
[We Press Him To Confirm Whether He Is Amongst The Long List of Celebrities Who’s Phones Were Hacked By Certain Tabloids, As We Know That During The Phone-Hacking Litigation Victims Were Contacted By The Metropolitan Police To Inform Them of The Evidence They Had Uncovered. Some People Settled And Others Went To Trial. Ainsley Declines To Be Drawn On The Subject As He Prefers “Not To Look Backwards But To Instead Look Forwards” With Particular Focus on The New Series.]
AH: People Get Through Things. Everyone of The Queen’s Children Has Had Issues.
(Above: The Imperial Royal Crown. Now Passes From The Queen To The King. And A Painting of A Busy Colonial Port From Ainsley’s Episode of The BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are)
TO.P: There Is Also The Issue of The Empire Plundering The Lands of Others. And You Know Much About This Subject As You Featured In An Episode of “Who Do You Think You Are?” (Which Was Apparently One of The Most Watched Episodes Ever). And During Which Research Uncovered A Notorious Brutal Scottish Slaver Who Had Enslaved Your Distant Ancestors.
AH: In Terms of Statues I Think “Let’s Put Up A Plaque. Let’s Write It Down. So People Can Wonder What All The Fuss Was About”.
“History Is Important.”
“So How Do We Say Who Is Right or Wrong?”
“But We Could Say How Would People Like It If A Statue Was Put Up of Jimmy Saville In A Local Area Because He Was Once A Great Entertainer?”
“As For The Jewellery They Might Have To Give Things Back.”
Ainsley’s Statue Comparison Makes The Point About Reviewing Historic Monuments Very Well Indeed. This Is Especially So Given The Physical & Sexual Horrors That Were Committed Within The Legalised & Immortalised System of Slavery Compared To The Way Jimmy Saville Has Fallen From Grace Due To His Illicit & Illegal Sexual Activities Within Mainstream Society.
He Is Naturally Passionate About This Subject As Seen During His Episode of The Aforementioned BBC Geneology Show Who Do You Think You Are? Looking At A Plaque In A Derelict Church, Put Up In Memory of The Former Scottish Slaver Who Enslaved Harriott’s Ancestors He Says Similar To What He Said To Us In This Interview:
“In Recognition of What? In Memory of What? Why Should He Be Remembered? Why Should He Have A Plaque On The Wall To Remind People He Kept Hundreds of People As Slaves. What Do You Want To Recognise That For?”
World Class chef Ainsley harriott MBE on the remnants of plaque On a crumbling wall in a derelict church in the former colonies honourING notorious slaver john davy
The Issue of Empire Is A Vexed One. But It Is One That Must Now Finally Be Honestly & Openly Discussed, As Many Countries Are Evermore Considering Whether To Leave The Commonwealth And No Longer Have The British Monarchy As Head of State In Their Country.
The Queen’s Passing Marks The End of An Era (The Second Elizabethan Era) And The Start of Another (The Carolingian Era). Only Time And History Will Tell How Restitution And Reconciliation Will Resolve The Issue of Recompense, Reparations And Redress
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