Turn on a TV, open a web browser, or scroll social media and you will not be able to avoid headlines and hashtags about Queen Elizabeth II passing away. After news broke that she was under “medical supervision,” media crews stationed themselves out front of Buckingham Palace for days.
The coverage was wall-to-wall, effusive, and entirely one-dimensional. What you did not see on television was any meaningful examination of the darker aspects of the monarchy’s history, its connections to colonial exploitation, or the elite networks that the royal family has facilitated for generations.
What was presented as a moment of national grief was, in reality, a carefully choreographed media spectacle designed to reinforce the legitimacy of inherited power and elite institutions.
The Queen’s funeral brought together the same network of global elites — royalty, bankers, politicians, and media moguls — that gather at Davos, Bilderberg, and other closed-door meetings. The symbolism of the ceremony, steeped in centuries of occult tradition, was presented as quaint tradition rather than what it may actually represent.
While the public was encouraged to mourn a figurehead, the real power structures that the monarchy represents continued their work unexamined and unquestioned.
