Princess Anne: “The historical perspective, it just goes back a lot further and the modern contexts are very different. A historical perspective is slightly different, maybe more realistic.” Princess Anne: “Not really a subject of conversation that I would even go down. (It’s at about 17:00 on the tape.) After brief comments from the princess on whether the media’s interpretation of the King’s agreement is really the way it happened, Arsenault asks whether her views are different from her brother’s. And his reference to “slavery’s enduring impact” presumably is meant to signal some degree of openness to reparations for the descendants of slaves.Īfter that clip is played - to us though not to Princess Anne, presumably - Arsenault asks the princess about the King having agreed to the monarchy’s role in slavery being studied in detail. Yet how many of us truly experience deep personal sorrow for the suffering of the tens of millions of people who were enslaved in past centuries? True, what Charles says is that he “cannot describe” his sorrow, which means, strictly, that it’s indescribable, not necessarily deep. CBC introduced the bit of the interview about slavery with background showing Charles telling the Commonwealth heads of government: “I cannot describe the depth of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many as I continue to deepen my own understanding of slavery’s enduring impact.”Įveryone agrees slavery is/was wrong. ![]() ![]() Of course, some of us heard her very sensible 63 words on the subject and immediately wondered whether it was too late to switch in the apparently very grounded, tough-minded and skeptical Anne for her brother, who by contrast seems to latch on earnestly to every progressive nostrum. Given woke rage, she will have to keep the stick at hand. ![]() Her official role in Saturday’s coronation is as “ Gold-Stick-in-Waiting,” the “close protection officer” to her brother. Anne Boleyn was probably the last royal Anne to suffer such a fate but, given the reaction to the princess’s cryptic answer to a question about slavery, the Beefeaters should probably be preparing a cot in the tower for her. Off with her head! The woke mob is very displeased with Princess Anne for things she said in her interview this week with Adrienne Arsenault of CBC (an interview the Corp is so pleased with it has done a self-flattering story about its reception).
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