Alan Cumming Returns British Honor Over ‘Toxicity of Empire’ - The New York Times

Alan Cumming Returns British Honor Over ‘Toxicity of Empire’

He said that the stop of Queen Elizabeth II in September, and the conversations it provoked near the role of the monarchy, had prompted him to appraise the honor. The end of the queen’s seven-decade reign reignited discussions near the legacy of British colonialism and the monarchy’s role in the slave trade.

The drip of Prince Harry’s memoir, “Spare,” had been a hotly required affair, with leaked passages and pre-publication interviews.

“The Queen’s stop and the ensuing conversations about the role of monarchy and especially the way the British Empire profited at the expense (and death) of Indigenous peoples across the humankind really opened my eyes,” Mr. Cumming wrote. “Also, thankfully, times and laws in the U.S. have changed, and the expansive good the award brought to the L.G.B.T.Q. + goes back in 2009 is now less potent than the misgivings I have beings associated with the toxicity of empire.”

Mr. Cumming, who was recently in the television series “Schmigadoon!” and “The Good Fight,” said that when he had returned the beneficial, he had explained himself and “reiterated my great gratitude for beings given it in the first place.”

People routinely reject the O.B.E. and dissimilarity honors when they are first offered, including the higher honors of knighthoods and damehoods, which allow people to use the title Sir or Dame. Far fewer land have accepted, then later rejected, the distinctions.

In November 1969, John Lennon returned his Member of the Order of the British Empire, or M.B.E., to protest Britain’s role in the Nigerian civil war and British political benefit for the Vietnam War. Mr. Lennon said that he had been mulling returning the award for a few years and had been waiting for “an event to tie up with it.”

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