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Queen warns EU against split with Britain

Queen Elizabeth II again made political comments when she cautioned British and German politicians over the ‘dangers of division’ at a state banquet in Berlin. Buckingham Palace has denied the statement was political.

The British monarch espoused the benefits of cooperation between European nations as she remembered the “worst” events of the continent’s history during her speech on Wednesday night.

Her comments have been interpreted as endorsing the UK’s membership of the EU, but also as a warning to Germany not to entertain Russia. However, Palace officials denied that the Queen was expressing a political stance.

The Queen’s unusual intervention into European politics coincided with the publication of a report suggesting a British exit from the EU could take a decade to negotiate and be fraught with economics risk.

The monarch was hosted by 75-year-old German President Joachim Gauck, who was once an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.

From the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron and the Euroskeptic Foreign Minister Philip Hammond were in attendance at the banquet.

Speaking directly to Gauck, the Queen said: “In our lives, Mr. President, we have seen the worst, but also the best of our continent. We have witnessed how quickly things can change for the better. But we know that we must work hard to maintain the benefits of the post-war world.

“We know that division in Europe is dangerous and that we must guard against it in the west as well as in the east of our continent.”

In a show of agreement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reported to have nodded vigorously during the Queen’s speech.

The monarch’s comments in Berlin follow a carefully scripted intervention in British politics in the run up to the Scottish independence referendum, in which she asked voters to “think very carefully.”

Gauck emphasized the importance of Britain’s role in building democracy in Germany after the war, expressing his country’s enduring gratitude.

Research by former UK Foreign Office chief economist Gregor Irwin indicates a ‘Brexit’ would damage business in the UK and further afield, impacting on the Netherlands, Ireland and Cyprus particularly hard.

Irwin’s report concludes a Brexit would damage Britain’s regulatory influence, dampen the attractiveness of the City of London, deter inward investment and hobble business activity through protracted uncertainty.

The UK stands to lose the most from Brexit in economic terms, he added.

President for Life sneers at ‘white face’

Zimbabwean President for Life, Robert Mugabe told a crowd of media and spectators on Thursday while visiting Hector Pietersen Memorial in Soweto, “I don’t want to see a white face”.

Mugabe delivered his latest sneer in his usual affected British colonial accent, flashing some cuff-links and tailor-made arrogance, once again highlighting how utterly risible the post-colonial Afro-Saxon circus has become.

An SABC reporter recorded the incident as Mugabe exited the museum, and walked past a female black television journalist who asked whether the tour had evoked any emotion.

The Memorial, incidentally, is a race-baiting cheap thrill of the post-1994 kind, where lies about ‘white oppression and brutality’ are exhibited as fact. The poor Hector was shot by black thugs, but the real story would not have had the same impact.

When Mugabe saw a white journalist behind her, he pushed the microphone away and wearily said: “I don’t want to see a white face,” as impervious as ever to his farcical contradictory attitude.

Mugabe’s comment can be heard in this video which has been posted on the SABC’s YouTube channel:

The deplorable state of Zimbabwe accurately reflects the more than three decades of the old Marxist tyrant’s misrule, despite his class-conscious accent.

The embarrassingly liberal nonagenarian puppet who “freed blacks from the colonial shackles of an oppressive and racist white regime” has not only failed to improve the lot of the majority of blacks but has actually worsened their plight considerably, presiding over what might be the most rapid disintegration yet of a modern nation state and the genocide of 22 000 Ndebele.

Not only has Mugabe’s regime failed to maintain the white infrastructure that was put in place by the Smith regime, but millions of literally starving Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa’s white cosmopolitan centres. They voted in their anti-white champion, only to abscond to the “racists” down south who would offer all the low-paid jobs as cleaners, gardeners and waiters in cafés and restaurants. Although, to be fair, many of the economic refugees to South Africa belonged to the minority Ndebele tribe, targeted by Mugabe.

It has become de rigueur for journalists, politicians and academics to offer what has become a near-universal analysis: Mugabe was a promising leader who became corrupted over time by power.

This meme was popularized after Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms in 2000. But this conception of Mugabe, propagated by the liberals who championed him in the 1970s and 1980s, is obviously a cover-up for their initial admiration.

From the beginning of his political career Mugabe outshone more moderate Marxists, openly stating his racist and authoritarian intentions to cheering liberals.

A similar scene is being played out at the University of Cape Town, where the ultra-left white principal Max Price is advancing a black racist and authoritarian discourse, succumbing to radical pressures to remove statues of whites, soon to be followed by the removal of white academics.

Mugabe certainly did not morph into a caricature of the Marxist stooge. By 1978 already he had displayed a particular ruthlessness that ought to have indicated what was to follow.

After four black moderates announced that they had reached an “internal settlement” with the Smith government, paving the way for democratic elections, one of these leaders, Ndabaningi Sithole, dispatched 39 envoys to meet representatives of Mugabe. The envoys were captured, murdered and, according to Time magazine, “their bodies were then laid out by the guerrillas in a grisly line at the side of the road as a warning to local tribespeople.”

The following year, in protest of an open election Mugabe’s organization released a death list naming 50 “Zimbabwean black bourgeoisie, traitors, fellow-travelers and puppets of the Ian Smith regime, opportunistic running-dogs and other capitalist vultures.” Mugabe’s henchmen then killed scores of black civilians who attempted to vote.

According to the despot “the multiparty system . . . is a luxury” and that if Zimbabweans did not like Marxism, “then we will have to re-educate them.”

Yet, in 1986, the University of Massachusetts Amherst bestowed an honorary doctorate on him just as he was completing his genocide against the Ndebele. In 1984, the University of Edinburgh awarded Mugabe an honorary doctorate and in 1994, Mugabe was inexplicably given an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II.

Today Zimbabwe suffers the highest inflation and lowest life-expectancy rates in the world.

New DNA tests question Queen’s legitimacy

New DNA analysis of the remains of one of England’s most well-known monarchs, King Richard III, has led to fresh questions over the legitimacy of the present British Royal family, the House of Windsor.

“We question the legitimacy of the current Royal family. If they, the Royal heirs, are prepared to offer their DNA then ‘finality’ would be in order,” Craig Rex, who claims to be a 7th-generation descendant of another well-known English monarch, King George III, told Sputnik Thursday.

Historians remain split on the issue, but some researchers believe George Rex of Knysna in South Africa, was the legitimate first-born son of King George III of England. Now new speculation of a mismatch in the DNA of Richard III has reignited questions over the rightful inheritors of the throne of England.

“We do believe that there were strong ties between my ancestor George Rex of Knysna and the British Royal family at the time,” Rex said, adding that “There are contemporaneous documents, showing the Royal Family went hunting on the Rex estate during visits to South Africa. Why was there this strong connection when George Rex was the supposed son of a distiller?”

In a 1997 documentary, film maker Kenneth Griffith revealed “disturbing evidence” that George Rex was the “forgotten” legitimate son of King George III and should have become King of England. Griffith controversially claimed George III’s first marriage to quaker girl Hannah Lightfoot caused a scandal in the ruling establishment of the day, which was embarrassed about the King having married a commoner.

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Griffith claimed the establishment then banished the legitimate off-spring to South Africa. But Griffith George III’s marriage to Lightfoot was never annulled and so, King George’s subsequent marriage to Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1761 was illegitimate and so was the Royal status of all their subsequent heirs.

Royalist supporters maintain the documents Griffith produced were 19th century forgeries, aimed at discrediting the Monarchy, but despite descendants of George Rex willing to undertake DNA comparison testing the current Queen and her heirs remain unlikely to provide their own samples.

“Regarding DNA testing the current monarchy, I would welcome any scientific investigation that would reveal the facts that would stand up to peer review,” Trevor Rix, an administrator with a DNA comparison project, told Sputnik Thursday.

“Having said that, the current monarchy is very stable and has an enormous beneficial impact on the country both at home and abroad. I would therefore not want to see the boat rocked too much,” Rix added.

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Rix, who helps run the “Rix worldwide DNA project”, believes that the evidence he has gathered suggests George Rex of Knysna was not related to George III, but added more DNA comparison was needed before any final conclusions can be reached.

“Although we only have the one Y-DNA test on a Rex descendant of George Rex to go on, that single test matches test results of many descendants of Rix families whose ancestors predate George III,” Rix told Sputnik.

“So, as with the Richard III case, the DNA does not lie. Both cases illustrate that hearsay and descendancy on paper may well lie,” Rix added.

A study published this week in the Nature Communications journal, following DNA tests on the remains of Richard III, produced clear evidence of infidelity in the Royal family line.

Scientists remain uncertain when the break in linage may have occurred, but Dr Anna Whitelock of the University of London told the BBC that any break in the family tree would be unlikely to affect on the current status of the Queen.

Mugabe, Ceausescu, Mussolini

A good number of people in Britain and beyond have had the honour of being stripped of their knighthoods and awards by the honours forfeiture committee since 1995.

Last year a former Manchester headteacher, Jean Else, became the first woman to have her damehood annulled.

The forfeiture committee was established to guard the system of knighthoods, peerages and other awards.

The committee’s recommendations are submitted to the Queen through the prime minister. Any decisions on forfeiture are formally published in the London Gazette.

It is composed of senior civil servants. Meeting at least once a year, the committee examines individual cases brought to its attention and reviews general policy about how the system should operate.

The Commonwealth award is removed by a different forfeiture committee.

Robert Mugabe, knighted in 1994, to cheers of African liberation and Mandela worshipping, had the honour withdrawn in 2008 following the international furore over violent, disputed elections. Bob had become slightly too black for his boots.

The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, honoured by the British government in an attempt to improve relations within Europe during the cold war had his knighthood revoked just in time. He fell from grace the day before his execution by a revolutionary firing squad.

Anthony Blunt, the keeper of the Queen’s pictures, was knighted for his services to art only to have his status revoked in 1979 shortly after the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, had exposed his double life as a Soviet spy in parliament.

Another victim of the hasty re-writing of history is the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

Mussolini had been the first Italian to receive the honour. He was given the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1923 from King George V, no less.

Il Duce lost his knighthood when Italy joined Nazi Germany in 1940 in declaring war on the UK.

The case of Roger Casement remains one of the most controversial forfeitures. A distinguished diplomat and human rights campaigner, he was eventually hanged for treason. He had attempted to deliver weapons to Irish republicans before the Easter Rising in 1916.