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WHY HER MAJESTY RETAINED THE THRONE.

The writer of the article then proceeds to discuss the various obvious, financial, and personal reasons which render the abdication of the Queen impossible, and he sets down one of them, which is one that would scarcely strike the unobservant Briton at first sight, as follows : — " The Queen is not only Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, she is also Empress of India, reigning Sovereign over more Moslems than the Grand Turk, and of more Africans and Asiatics than any other civilised monarch. Abdication would be misunderstood by most, misrepresented by some, and resented by all of them. Death they know ; a living ruler they understand. What is abdication to the border tribes of the Hindoo-Koosh, to the lake-dwellers of Nyassaland, Uganda, or the fierce tribesmen of the Soudan? From an Imperial standpoint a sceptre dropped from the hand of the Great White Queen can be borne aloft in her lifetime by no successor. In many parts of the world the British raj is personified in the little lady who, 60 years ago, said to those who told her that she was a Queen — 'I will be good.' In some parts of India she is actually worshipped as a goddess. In her lifetime the native races of the Empire will either look to the Queen as their ruler or they will assume that something has happened that saps and neutralises British power. These Imperial considerations as to the effect on Asiatics and Africans were also in the minds of the Ministers when they unanimously refused to advise the Queen to rest from the crushing burden of the Crown."

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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 56

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WHY HER MAJESTY RETAINED THE THRONE. Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 56

WHY HER MAJESTY RETAINED THE THRONE. Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 56

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