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posted ago by Cuetardian ago by Cuetardian +14 / -1

This is from Reddit. Original post with citations can be seen here: https://old.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/zk5xe1/they_edited_the_queens_1947_pledge_of_service/

But the important part is that Harry and/or Meghan EDITED a speech by Harry's grandmother Queen Elizabeth II so that it would sound more racist and oppressive. As in:

In 1947, on her 21st birthday, the then-Princess Elizabeth gave a speech declaring her service to her country. The most famous part of it reads:

"I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

Apparently this part of the speech is used twice in the doco. The first time is unedited. But the second time, the bolded words have been removed:

"I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

This makes it sound like the future queen only cared about the empire, not the people.

There are a lot of folks who are EXTREMELY offended by these two causing this happen. They had to know about it. Nobody else would think of editing a famous speech by one of the most popular monarchs in history.

Nobody except those two.