Following the crime of His Majesty’s plan to the country regarding the Atlantic slave trade, I hereby present an open letter.
Open Letter to His Majesty King Charles III
Your Majesty,
If the Crown is prepared to acknowledge a historical case for reparations arising from the Atlantic slave trade, then consistency demands that the same principle be applied to the centuries-long dispossession of the British people themselves.
The monarchy and the aristocratic order that surrounds it rest on successive acts of conquest, feudal seizure, and the systematic enclosure of common land. From the Norman redistribution of English estates after 1066, through the later extinguishing of customary rights, to the parliamentary enclosures that transferred vast areas of once-common land into private hands, the ordinary people of these islands were repeatedly separated from the soil they had worked and the resources they had shared. The resulting concentration of land and privilege is not an ancient curiosity; it is the material foundation of the very institutions that continue to enjoy hereditary wealth and status today.
If the wrongs of the past are to be quantified and compensated in one case, the same logic applies to another. The descendants of those who lost access to common land, who were driven from customary holdings, or who paid rent and taxes to sustain an order built on that dispossession have at least as strong a claim as any other group now invited to seek historical redress. To recognise one chain of historical responsibility while exempting the institutions that most directly benefited from the seizure of British land is selective, not principled.
The logical next step is therefore clear. An honest application of the reparations principle requires the abolition of the monarchy and of hereditary aristocratic privilege, together with a settlement that returns or compensates the British people for the long-term loss of their common inheritance. Anything less treats historical injustice as a political instrument rather than a consistent standard.
The British people did not consent to the permanent alienation of their land. They should not now be asked to underwrite selective moral accounting that leaves the principal beneficiaries untouched.
Respectfully,
A British Citizen
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