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On Royal Excursions
So , a King , a British monarch to boot , came calling recently to Kenya in the company of his consort , a Queen , not to be confused with the Queen , the present monarch ’ s mother , who also as a Queen , was nevertheless the British monarch .
The whole visit was so underwhelming that the only notable item worth of recall was that he overruled a presidential executive order banning the El Nino and the subsequent downpours lent credence to the superiority of white magic over black .
This seemingly impolite intrusion into the domestic affairs of a sovereign state could however be excused on the grounds that the King is well documented as a champion of nature conservation and all matters climatic .
If you are one of those sceptics wondering , why Kenya , then you would be demonstrating ignorance of the intricately interwoven history of Kenya and the House of Windsor that makes the two inextricably connected . Here is the story .
Once upon a time , there was a princess of the realm who lived in Buckingham Palace , in such stories the princess is always pretty and she always meets a prince charming , they marry and live happily ever after .
But this princess had faced a threat to her father ’ s kingdom by German invaders and in her case , it was not her prince in shining armor that rescued the day but a rotund whiskey swirling , cigarsmoking prime minister who was the man of the hour .
With the kingdom secure , the princess went back to doing whatever it is that princesses do to ward off boredom as in having endless banquets and entertainment and dressing prettily but this princess was cut of a slightly adventurous mold .
In the ensuing lull after The Second World War , the princess got married to her prince charming in line with the script of the fairy tales and immediately produced an heir to the throne and a princess to keep him company .
In line to her duty to the famed British Empire , the princess was wont to inspect her father ’ s dominions and thereby was called to undertake an empire tour with her prince husband perhaps as a belated honeymoon .
It came to pass that it was while in Kenya , precisely at the sunkissed slopes of Mount Kenya early in February 1952 , after an arduous day of sight-seeing and game viewing that the princess retired for the night at the Treetops hotel .
When she woke up the next day , she was a queen , although for some inscrutable English tradition her husband was not a king . So , the traditional proclamation that ‘ the King is dead , long live the Queen ’ took place in Kenya .
This idyllic situation belies the fact that the new Queen was ascending to the throne of a brutal imperialistic nation that had lorded over such a huge swathe of the globe that it was said , and
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