By now, the British monarchy should have been put into hospice care.

It will, in any case, be a merciful finish to a spent, vacuous establishment that has revealed itself to be a dying artefact of a cruel, imperialist previous that needs to be buried – as soon as and for all.

Regardless of the decided efforts of “royal” historians and “journalists” who embarrass themselves and the career they purport to serve, the lengthy, inevitable decay-into-irrelevant farce of King Charles III and trifling firm was made plain, but once more, on the primary anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s demise final week.

Past her divided household and people who, by nostalgic temperament and profession necessity, prostrate themselves earlier than the grandeur of a glittery anachronism, few others seen that, in contrast to a lot of her much less lucky ancestors, a stooping previous girl’s 70-year reign had ended a yr in the past of pure causes.

On the time, a military of sentimentalists assured us that Elizabeth’s quiet grace and singular longevity had left a profound, indelible mark all through a Commonwealth paralysed by grief on the unhappy departure of the one queen most had ever recognized.

Seems, Elizabeth’s decade after decade after decade tenure as monarch was as ephemeral as a gust of wind and, reality be informed, a lot much less severe than the outcomes of that weekend’s Premier League fixtures.

Certain, there have been the acquainted TV-friendly rituals confirming that Elizabeth had, in truth, been remembered. However they appeared drained and performative.

A gaggle of Londoners had been moved, in fact, to put flowers at Buckingham Palace’s gates, whereas a skinny crowd of celebrity-gawkers greeted Charles and a conga line of main and minor-league royals doing perfunctory “walkabouts” at commemorative church companies.

Later, the Prince and Princess of Wales took to social media to insist that: “All of us miss you.”

In the meantime, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issued a nasty speechwriter-penned assertion to look at “the solemn anniversary”.

“With the angle of a yr, the dimensions of her late majesty’s service solely appears better,” he stated. “Her devotion to the nations of the UK and the Commonwealth solely appears deeper. And our gratitude for such a unprecedented lifetime of obligation and dedication, solely continues to develop.”

On the danger of inviting a torrent of insults aimed toward my blind, heartless self, I’m at a loss to grasp who constitutes this imaginary “we” that “all miss” the ridiculously wealthy, pampered-for-life queen?

I don’t. Truthfully, do you?

As for Sunak’s declare that the “scale” of Elizabeth’s service, obligation and dedication has solely deepened within the 12 months since her passing at age 96, I problem anybody to offer even a scintilla of tangible, not rhetorical, proof to assist this predictable little bit of absurd historic revisionism.

Elizabeth devoted her snug life to travelling first-class, shielding her household’s huge wealth from the taxman, managing her household’s pristine, sprawling estates, being feted at lavish state dinners by advantage of luck and primogeniture, caring for her expensive canines and horses, and burnishing the mirage that the British monarchy stays an exemplar of fidelity, charity and benevolence.

Stripped of all of the foolish embroidery, her eldest son’s job is to do exactly the identical. Royal historians quoted lately have admitted as a lot. Charles’s project is to not rock the gilded boat, however to maintain it afloat.

“He actually has set a really impartial course. I believe many individuals had been anticipating lots of reform, lots of change, in the way in which that he had advocated for as Prince of Wales,” one starry-eyed royal commentator informed the Toronto Star newspaper. “However I believe actually maintaining issues balanced has develop into his hallmark, maintaining issues uncontroversial and maintaining the establishment steady.”

The difficulty is, the boat is rusting and itemizing – badly.

Charles’s ascendency to the throne has impressed scant, if any, enthusiasm. Help for the let’s-play-dress-up-on-a-balcony pantomime, already slipping beneath Elizabeth’s dynasty, has continued its precipitous fall.

That is the telling case, notably amongst British youngsters and 20-somethings who’ve informed pollsters that a lot of them don’t consider the Crown performs any “good” objective and it’s time that their little island lastly turned a republic – proving that, generally, maturity has little to do with age.

Charles is the top of a pedestrian, dysfunctional household that seethes with petty grievances, jealousies and contempt.

The Home of Windsor’s supposed devotion to “service” is a fig leaf meant to disguise simply how inconsequential and disconnected “The Agency” is from the taxing, day-to-day lives of most Brits.

The household’s frivolous squabbles – each private and non-private – take up lots of time and vitality whilst they paid “solemn” remembrance to their beloved “grandmama”.

The simmering hostilities between Harry and his older, extra obedient brother, William, erupted after the exiled-to-California prince visited, unannounced, his grandmother’s grave at Windsor Citadel to supply his respects.

That is how one astonished “royalist” correspondent described Harry’s unforgivable fake pas: “Prince Harry dramatically upped the ante in his struggle with the royal household Friday as he upstaged his estranged brother Prince William by making a shock go to to his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II’s grave on the primary anniversary of her demise.”

Fortunately, the Princess of Wales – Kate Middleton – got here to the PR rescue.

The Unbiased reported that, in touching homage and “poignant tribute” to the late queen, the princess sported a “household heirloom…[stepping] out in drop-down pearl earrings as an ode to Her Majesty.”

Apparently, saccharine-laced copy extolling The Agency’s endearing virtues will not be the unique purview of Fleet Avenue’s monarchy-mad tabloid press.

My goodness.

Is it any marvel then that urge for food to proceed to tolerate the customarily surreal, at all times wacky British model of Household Feud is waning – rapidly?

The smart residents of Barbados, amongst others, have had their fill of the travelling colonial circus.

Extra importantly, they’re not content material to overlook or forgive the conquering, plundering and crimes in opposition to humanity dedicated within the title and revenue of an English king or queen.

As a substitute, they’ve severed their once-binding ties with the so-called “Motherland” and are demanding restitution from the white plantation homeowners who stripped them, by deadly drive, of freedom, independence and company to manipulate their lives and futures.

Alas, I’m nonetheless ready for my residence – Canada – to develop up, too, and observe Barbados’s effective and laudable instance.

The views expressed on this article are the writer’s personal and don’t essentially mirror Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.