Last month, British Vogue announced that its April issue would pay tribute to Her Majesty The Queen with a special edition cover. As she becomes the first British monarch in history to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, this issue of Vogue will explore the historic and unique relationship they have with the Queen and share rare images of her from their archives.
When the cover was announced on Instagram, British Vogue’s page was flooded with love heart and crown emojis, but I was slightly puzzled by it all. Have these people (Vogue included) not heard about the news coming out of the Caribbean, or did they just not care?
While British Vogue debuted the Queen’s first British Vogue cover, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went on an eight-day tour of the Caribbean in honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. However, before their tour even began, there were protests in Belize by Indigenous residents of the Indian Creek, who were disturbed by the plan for Will and Kate’s helicopter to land on one of their soccer fields.
Currently, the residents of Indian Creek village are fighting for their land as 12,000 acres of Belize property is owned by the conservation group Fauna & Flora. The Royal Family coincidentally supports Fauna & Flora. The Belize protests set the tone for the rest of the embarrassing eight days and they were met with various protests, from Jamaica to the Bahama, demanding reparations for slavery and colonialism.