Questions over whether all Commonwealth realms, particularly those with slave legacy, share enthusiasm for 70th anniversary
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a military parade in Kingston for service personnel during their tour of the Caribbean on behalf of the Queen to mark her Platinum Jubilee.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a military parade in Kingston for service personnel during their tour of the Caribbean on behalf of the Queen to mark her Platinum Jubilee.Boris Johnson has claimed that the Queen’s platinum jubilee will see people celebrating “unabashed” across the Commonwealth.
Rosalea Hamilton, a campaigner for the Advocates Network who organised slavery reparations protests in Jamaica, said she has not seen any focus or attention on the jubilee, which she said is “not resonating” in Jamaica. The founding director of Jamaica’s Institute of Law and Economics at the University of Technology said the country is “not in a jubilant mood”.
The heightened publicity around the monarchy as a result of the jubilee has only acted as “a reminder of the absence of an apology”, she said. Researchers for the Visible Crown Project in the UK and the Caribbean have struggled to find evidence of many celebrations in the Caribbean. More than 600 jubilee lunches are planned in more than 80 countries across the Commonwealth, where beacons will also be lit, and the rest of the world.
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