The Queen’s Favorite Son, Veterans, and Rape Culture

Zarna Joshi
4 min readApr 8, 2022

*Trigger Warning* rape, rape culture, child abuse, sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, veterans, military industrial complex, colonial trauma

The Queen, right, and Andrew, left, standing during the day time together on some balcony looking outwards. Andrew is in a top hat and dark suit with a blue tie and white shirt. Queen Elizabeth is in some silver dress or suit coat with a pastel flower print top underneath. She’s wearing a pearl necklace and a giant broach on her left shoulder, and a matching hat with pastel flowers on it. Very innocent and respectable looking, while she protected her favorite son’s royal position and money.
Screenshot The Queen, right, and Andrew, left.
A picture of the royal family. The Queen stands on her balcony at Buckingham Palace with Charles on her right and Andrew on her left, in their scarlet military dress uniforms. Members of the Royal family are gathered all around her as they smile and talk to each other while the Queen looks directly ahead, smiling. She is wearing a creamy golden color suit, with a matching hat that has intricate embroidery, with a pearl necklace and pearl earrings.
Screenshot A picture of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

Note that stripping Andrew of his titles and patronages was not the Queen’s idea or desire. She was asked to do it by veterans who demanded that the Queen’s favorite son be removed from his honorary positions as their patron because the civil sexual assault lawsuit against him made them look really bad.

A picture of Prince Andrew in British Naval dress uniform. He grins while standing outside on the pavement with a black Rolls Royce behind him on the right and a small group of affluent white people standing behind him looking in his direction on the left.
Screenshot A picture of Prince Andrew in British Naval dress uniform.

The problem is that the British military always looks bad. They are one of the most colonizing and violent armies in the entire world with centuries of proof to back up that claim.

These veterans didn’t demand that the Queen’s favorite son be stripped of his titles and removed from his position as their patron because they care about the girls he “allegedly” raped. They knew about the girls he was “allegedly” raping. Who do you think were his bodyguards when he went on all his trips to Epstein’s houses? Who do you think…

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Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog