The Queen’s Favorite Son, Veterans, and Rape Culture

Anti-imperialismVeteransRape cultureRacismRoyal FamilyChild abuse

Jan 13

*Trigger Warning* rape, rape culture, child abuse, sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, veterans, military industrial complex, colonial trauma

Screenshot Image description: A picture of Queen Elizabeth and her second son Andrew. The Queen, right, and Andrew, left, standing during the day time together on some balcony looking outwards. Andrew is in a top hat and dark suit with a blue tie and white shirt. Queen Elizabeth is in some silver dress or suit coat with a pastel flower print top underneath. She’s wearing a pearl necklace and a giant broach on her left shoulder, and a matching hat with pastel flowers on it. Very innocent and respectable looking, while she protected her favorite son’s royal position and money from accusations of rape and sex trafficking for years.

Screenshot Image description: A picture of the royal family. The Queen stands on her balcony at Buckingham Palace with Charles on her right and Andrew on her left, in their scarlet military dress uniforms. Members of the Royal family are gathered all around her as they smile and talk to each other while the Queen looks directly ahead, smiling. She is wearing a creamy golden color suit, with a matching hat that has intricate embroidery, with a pearl necklace and pearl earrings.

Note that stripping Andrew of his titles and patronages was not the Queen's idea or desire. She was asked to do it by veterans who demanded that the Queen's favorite son be removed from his honorary positions as their patron because the civil sexual assault lawsuit against him made them look really bad.

Screenshot Image description: A picture of Prince Andrew in British Naval dress uniform. He grins while standing outside on the pavement with a black Rolls Royce behind him on the right and a small group of affluent white people standing behind him looking in his direction on the left.

The problem is that the British military always looks bad. They are one of the most colonizing and violent armies in the entire world with centuries of proof to back up that claim.

These veterans didn't demand that the Queen's favorite son be stripped of his titles and removed from his position as their patron because they care about the girls he "allegedly" raped. They knew about the girls he was “allegedly” raping. Who do you think were his bodyguards when he went on all his trips to Epstein’s houses? Who do you think monitored his movements and vetted the people around him? If they cared about issues of sexual assault at all, why didn’t they expose Andrew themselves? Why didn’t they support the people who accused him? Why didn’t they work to bring justice to those survivors? Accusations of the Queen’s favorite son committing rape and sex trafficking go back for decades.

These veterans only insisted on this measure of stripping him of titles now in 2022, and the Queen has only now complied, because they see that this case can’t be covered up like it usually is and this is a last ditch effort to protect their public image. Meanwhile, the British military led by the British Royal Family has been raping and sex trafficking girls and women all over the world for centuries. They used to abduct Indian girls and women off the street and force them to work in military compounds as sex workers - which means those girls and women were being abducted, raped, sex trafficked, imprisoned, and on and on. If those girls and women contracted any sexually transmitted diseases from the soldiers who were raping them, they would be kicked out of the compound with nowhere to go and left to starve in the streets while, of course, suffering from the sexual transmitted diseases forced on them by British military rapists. Records show that British military officials were asking their superiors to send “younger” girls for their men to rape. The records also show that British officials were puzzled at how white British soldiers seemed to contract lots of sexually transmitted diseases while the Indian soldiers didn’t contract these diseases as often. It didn’t occur to the British that this was because the Indian soldiers weren’t raping the women and girls provided in the military compounds, that they were in fact not rapists on the scale that the British soldiers were, and were also more faithful to their wives. None of that occurred to the British officials at all.

The British empire and its military is one of the most horrific institutions of rape culture and sex trafficking and forced prostitution and domestic abuse and white supremacy in the entire world even while they presented themselves as saviors of women and demonized Indigenous men as abusers of women.

Meanwhile, this is a map of every country Britain has ever invaded.

Screenshot Line from article that shares this map reads: “Here's a map of all the countries Britain has invaded (pink). And the ones we haven't invaded... yet (purple).” Image description: World map with land mass in either pink or purple with oceans in white. Most of the entire map is pink with only 23 countries not invaded by the British.

Prince Andrew, by the way, is a major arms dealer for the British. Yeah, that's right. He's been working for his colonizer family's military industrial complex business. And now the British military industrial complex is trying to clean their image of rape, sex trafficking, and child abuse.

You are too late, British military rapists.