Crowning Of Prince Charles Will Only Push Other Commonwealth Nations To Seek Independence From Constitutional Monarchy
The coronation of Prince Charles as the reigning sovereign of the United Kingdom is not a question of how or what or why, but when will he be crowned as King.
The answer to this question creates an unease amongst the royal institution, with Queen Elizabeth II being the model for the new generation of Royals, comparisons will not come easy.
The news of Barbados’s petition to separate itself from the British monarchy has opened up numerous channels of discomfort for royal officials. The island nation’s appeal to become a Republic nation, and to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state can only mean disaster awaits when Prince Charles takes over.
The British monarchy is the head of state of over 16 countries in the world, the empire undertakes over 54 nations, which they call as the ‘Commonwealth’ nations.
Many amongst these countries are those that are located in the Caribbean and in Africa.
The British royal institution has been heavily criticized for continuing to have a hold on these countries and imposing themselves as head of state despite the past that comes with it.
In 2018, the Queen announced that heir apparent, Prince Charles was to take over her place as reigning monarch once she passes away, this news was not taken lightly by many of the Commonwealth nation’s representatives.
Journalist Ruchiri Sharma on an interview with DailyMail explained that Britain’s automatic assumption of the head of state for the Commonwealth nation is very wrong.
Sharma continued to explain that the British monarchy continues to remind the world that by taking over the commonwealth country’s highest seat, ‘Imperialism’ is not yet dead "As part of the Commonwealth diaspora, I'm offended that Prince Charles will be the former colonies' head of state. A rich white man automatically assuming a leadership role isn’t particularly novel but pure blatant nepotism,” Sharma said.
In a statement released by the Governor-General of Barbados, the Queen’s representative in the country, Dame Sarah Mason, she expressed that Barbados' no longer sees a non-Barbadian person is fit to be the head of state of the island nation.
Dame Mason continued with addressing the hopes of Barbados to become its own Republic institution by the country’s 55th anniversary.
The commonwealth past has also been a great sadness of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who have addressed it way back.
The palace has already released a statement regarding Barbados’s petition to become a Republic country.