On Friday’s episode of The View, the co-hosts, after all, talked about Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at 96.
She was Britain’s longest-serving monarch, having seen monumental change on this planet throughout her 70-year reign, and he or she had many movie star followers, who paid public tribute to her within the hours afterward.
Co-host Sunny Hostin defined that she was a kind of admirers.
“I studied in London, so I lived in London for some time. And I obtained caught up within the pomp and circumstance of all of it as effectively,” Hostin mentioned. “I needed to see the altering of the guards. I needed to see every thing. I needed to fulfill the queen, as a result of I feel all of us love glam and pageantry.”
She defined her combined emotions concerning the monarchy.
“And I feel, although, we will mourn the queen and never the empire,” Hostin mentioned of Britain’s colonial previous. “As a result of in case you actually take into consideration what the monarchy was in-built, it was constructed on the backs of Black and Brown individuals. She wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa, and now what you are seeing, not less than within the Black communities that I am part of, they need reparations.”
Hostin’s co-host Pleasure Behar identified that, regardless of that, Queen Elizabeth had taken optimistic steps towards equality, equivalent to preventing towards apartheid in South Africa. She famous that the queen was a “figurehead” with out a lot precise energy.
One other co-host, Ana Navarro, identified that america additionally was constructed on the backs of Black and Brown individuals.
“And we wish our reparations,” Hostin mentioned.
She added that she has excessive hopes for the newly topped King Charles III and the adjustments he’ll probably make.
“It is time for him to modernize this monarchy,” Hostin mentioned, “and it is time for him to offer reparations to all of these colonies. And I additionally suppose, you recognize, a monarchy… it is very simple to uplift one household. The more durable factor is to uplift all households. And I feel that he is able to have the ability to try this.”
Hostin recommended the brand new king additionally mend the household’s relationship with Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle.
