Others don't need to kill even a mosquito to keep you at the bottom, dispossessed, landless, poor and destitute. And while many view monarchs as weak and largely symbolic entities, the British monarch ranks amongst the wealthiest corporations around the world.

After all, British colonialism and capitalism were like Siamese twins. The Royal household made a fortune out of other people's misfortune of being colonised. It owns countries, lands, minerals, seas, people and cash that are overseen by its corporate entity called Monarchy PLC, also known as "The Firm".

The Firm is a common nickname for the British Monarchy with a long history seeming to originate with George VI, who is quoted as stating, "we are the Family Firm ". Nonetheless, the Monarchy PLC reportedly holds about £28 billion in assets as of 2022. And its new head, Charles alone his worth is £400 million but he has never worked a day in his life. His late mother and other family members boast millions of pounds in their portfolios and bank accounts. The proceeds from colonialism and slave trade make them to be among the wealthiest people on planet Earth.

The ''firm' tag firmly confirms the monarch's deep connections to capita(ism), colonialism, corporate power and contemporary inequalities in all the lands the British once, and still continues, to colonise and pillage. These range from Scottish to Irish territories in their backyard an the Gibraltar in Spain to occupied territory in Malvinas and large parts of the world where the Union Jack once throttled people. African countries like Mozambique voluntarily request to be colonised by the Royal family.

The economics of The Firm are interesting since they prove beyond any reasonable doubt that indeed the successive monarchs in Britain not only knew about colonialism and its atrocities, but also benefited from it. In this regard, the British government has provided funds to the monarch since 1688, which was at the peak of British imperialism, slavery and brutal conquest of foreign people and their territories.

Today these territories are christened as the Commonwealth of Nations (SLAVES/IZIGQILA/IZICAKA/MAKGOBA) but the truth is that the Commonwealth has Imperial origins. Holly Randell-Moon argues, "The secular autonomy of settler states is buttressed by Crown sovereignty " with regular royal visits to enforce loyalty.

The late Queen and her son Charles have been to Ghana, Kenya and all over to check up on the supposedly free subjects. In a speech in 1947 in South Africa, the late Queen declared she would devote her life to "service of our great imperial family to which we all belong". This means that we are happy slaves. It is unsurprising that most of Africa's mineral wealth is controlled from London. Africans are not allowed by the Monarch to beneficiate for themselves.

The British Monarch continues to be the head in all former colonies. Independent countries like Mozambique voluntarily took their people under the late Queen's skirt by joining the Commonwealth, preserving the dominance of the English language, system, capital and its sphere of political influence. The current arrangement makes a mockery of the hopes that the oppressed had when British occupation supposedly ended.

The Commonwealth is a psychological trap and advances dependancy and white supremacy. In all photographs of Commonwealth leaders' conferences, for instance, the Queen sat in the front and centre "among dozens mostly non-white premiers like a matriarch flanked by her offspring."

What does this mean?

The Premiers presided over the lands which "The British Empire largely decolonised, but the Monarchy did not. " Kenyans, South Africans, Nigerians, and Jamaicans proudly participate in a game of slaves called the Commonwealth Games. They think it is a sport, yet their colonization is normalised. And nobody questions these unequal, racist, and political links that their leaders enthusiastically maintain.

Lancaster University's Laura Lancy that the concept of an "imperial family" easily "reflects the idea of a British Monarchy as empire's figurehead, vested in ideologies of white supremacy and colonialism. Many of these countries I.e. Australia, Jamaica, Grenada, St Lucia, and Tuvalu continue to use "God save the Queen/King" as their national anthem.

In summary, the massive corporate accumulation by The Firm was acquired through dispossession, exploitation and extraction expands. The British Empire implemented violent regimes of genocide, famine, enslavement, indentured labour, imprisonment and torture, all presided over by the monarchy.

The Firm continues to use and extract value from goods stolen during colonization such as the Koh-i-Noor diamond from India used in the Crown jewels, which Pakistan and India have repeatedly asked to be returned. Others will point to a large diamond from South Africa as one of the most visible reminders of the brutal British conquests in Africa. Not forgetting a huge warehouse full of gold taken for free from South Africa. South Africa has never requested its minerals back.

Maya Jassanoff, a Professor of History at Harvard, wrote in the New York Times that the late Queen "helped to obscure a bloody history of decolonisation whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged.

Amid the poverty and strife in almost all British Colonies, the messages of condolences for the death of the long reigning queen are a stark reminder that the plight of subalterns and the "other " is not anyone's concern. The billions under the control of Monarchy PLC should be used to compensate the victims of British imperialism and conquest all over the world.

In South Africa, the EFF issued a statement refusing to canonise the late Queen which received support at home and abroad. A few years ago, Jamaican public figures were correct to point out that "We see no reason to celebrate the 70 years of ascension of your grandmother to the British throne because here leadership, and that of her predecessors, had perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in the history of mankind ". The monarchy equals pain in the minds of the people that were colonised.

In 2022, Charles told former British colonies during the Commonwealth meeting in Rwanda that they were "free to split from the monarchy if they want". He obviously doesn't see the need to apologize and pay reparations as well as to let go of places like Antigua and Bermuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, Solomon Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Tuvalu.

And for the obvious reasons, the leaders will also not leave since they are addicted to inferiority treatment, and are afraid to tell Britain to give them what is theirs on their way out.

The monarchy has everything to do with slavery and colonialism. Many South Africans and others are right to denounce the fanfare and tears to mourn the fallen London Bridge.