Anjelo Disons poses for a photo after giving her views on recent events surrounding the queen’s death and the monarchy at Peckham Festival in London.
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LONDON – While London is packed with huge crowds and long lines, many can only sit out the glamor, circumstance and commotion that accompanies Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
In the multicultural neighborhood of southeast Peckham, many people seem to be going about their Sundays as usual.
Many attendees of the Peckham Festival – a series of workshops, performances and exhibitions that concluded this year’s edition on Sunday – said they mourned Elizabeth as a person but not necessarily as a person. king, because they do not feel an emotional connection to the organization. .
People don’t plan their Mondays around the funeral (but say they can watch it on TV if it’s convenient), and don’t feel like they’re missing out on anything by not queuing up. visit the queen’s coffin. As a woman named Hortence Mbyi said, “I just got a lot of work to do, didn’t I?”
Hortence Mbyi poses with her dog after speaking about her views on recent events surrounding the death of the queen and the monarchy at Peckham Festival in London.
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“When you really give a personality to the queen, when I see Elizabeth is dead and she has a dog and she has a family, it makes me feel sad because someone’s grandmother has died, whose mother that’s dead,” she said. “But in terms of ‘The Queen has passed away’, that doesn’t help me at all.”
Mbyi says the royal family doesn’t do much but serve as a tourist attraction – and doesn’t do anything special for her, even though she does pay taxes for them. She is “waiting for repeal.”
A woman named Kesta says that anyone’s death is sad, but so is the symbolism of what the queen stands for. Many countries are still feeling the negative impact of the British Empire and the legacy of colonialism, which she finds inseparable from monarchy.
Annie Garvey, Kesta and Nancy chat at the Peckham Festival in London.
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“So in the end, I don’t feel sad about the death of a woman when the country is in crisis, people want to warm their homes or feed their children,” she added. “And I think there’s a lot of other sad things going on right now. So, you know, I can watch. [the funeral]but I don’t feel there is any specific way about it. “
Musician Anjelo Disons agrees it is hard to see so much money being directed towards the proceedings amid the UK cost of living crisis. He acknowledged the importance of this historic moment, but also suggested that it could be an opportunity to rethink and perhaps reform the British monarchy.
Sajida Khan, headscarf center, enjoys musical entertainment at the Peckham festival, where she talks about her views on recent events surrounding the queen’s death and the monarchy.
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Sajida Khan, headscarf center, enjoys musical entertainment at the Peckham festival, where she talks about her views on recent events surrounding the queen’s death and the monarchy.
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Disons, who is wearing a necklace with an African pendant, says the queen means a lot to his mother, who is from Uganda.
he said.
Sajida Khan, a retired teacher who emigrated from Pakistan about four decades ago, choked up when trying to describe what the queen meant to her, describing her as a docile and gracious person, like Like everyone else, she went through ups and downs in her life. She can separate the queen from the dark parts of England’s past.
Charlotte Urwin and James Waller stroll next to wall art at the Peckham Festival in London.
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“I don’t see her in this light, that she’s a cruel person or anything that happened in the past or happens even now,” she said. “I don’t think she had anything to do with that. That’s my understanding. I could be wrong.”
Khan said: “Everybody is entitled to their own opinion and added that she would never convince her daughter to be royalist or monarchist. She personally wants to see William become king one day.
“And then, maybe if it didn’t exist, I wouldn’t be here to watch.”
