The prince and princess stop to talk to their youngest guard

Those who speak of a genocide of the Irish are usually referring to the Great Famine, which happened during the time of Queen Victoria. It's a bit hard to attribute it to her, though, even if you think it was the deliberate outcome of British policies, as she was merely a figurehead.

If you want to go back to the original sin, well, yes, Cromwell did invade Ireland, but it was a re-invasion. Ireland had been ruled by the English, in part or in whole, since the twelfth century, with a particularly large invasion under Henry VIII. You could, if you are so inclined, blame it all on Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, who invited them in the first place. As far as I know the Windsors are not descended from him.

In France. He was in the Irish Guards defending the main British running away, sorry retreat, from the Germans 50 miles northeast of Paris in August 1914. He was 20. He was a farmer's son from East Galway. His older brother, a cop, was mowed down in an ambush 6 years later by the IRA. The IRA guy who led the attack became a priest and worked among the poor in Africa for most of his life after out of shame of what he had done.

A lot of Irish and Irish Americans have a mixed feeling on the whole 900 years and counting colonialism.

However with these two, It is not complicated at all. There is the multi-racial British society and their democracy, their bad beer, their excellent soccer, thankfully failing rugby, and their excellent music. That's good.

These two however are welfare layabouts who count on dimless twits worshiping them and their relatives. Somehow their wealth theft (King Charles just avoided a huge tax bill because, you know), their indifference to f'ing a lot of societies and their economies (RE: India), and this guy's granny indifference to things like interning a few hundred thousand Kenyans for no reason, and this guy's uncle raping girls gets passed over by people, like the ones who showed up in Somerville today and City Hall last night, taking their cues from People and Us Magazine.

The auto-assigned title for this comment is particularly unfortunate given the innocuous nature of the comment itself and the coincidental parallel with Ye's latest.

It appears your grievance record is skipping at the same point again.

I don't know what John believes in, but it is unwarranted to draw broad conclusions about the religious doctrines someone holds from the forms of religious prejudice and persecution that they object to.

Good God, I hope not. Though I suppose it would be in keeping with an ambition to stand outside a building full of D-grade celebrities/welfare bums, motionless and expressionless, in a red suit and fur hat, all day, every day.