Tuesday this week, King of Britain, Charles Phillip (Charles III) unveiled an official portrait of himself that is raging in reaction like a wildfire.
The portrait done by Jonathan Yeo, with his imprimatur and dated 2024 is reported to have been officially unveiled by the monarch himself.
However, reactions in anger and recall of the ugly past of the history of colonization championed by the British monarchy has greeted the drawing.
New York Post screamed a headline that the portrait looks like Charles is in hell.
It reported:
“On Tuesday, King Charles, 75, unveiled a new official portrait of himself by the artist Jonathan Yeo — which many royal watchers were quick to label “disturbing.”
The portrait depicts Charles wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards, of which he was made Regimental Colonel in 1975, and was unveiled in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace.”
On the BBC Instagram wall, hundreds of responses blasted the British monarchy and commented the depiction of the painting was as apt as deliberate, an epitome of the past atrocities of the monarchy, occupied by Charles III’s ancestors.
One of the responses indicated that “Charles is right to authorize the painting. The meaning of the painting is real, and a reflection of the history of blood of his ancestors.
The first monarch to endorse slave raids in Africa and benefitted directly from the blood proceeds to build their palaces was Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603). This was to last for 270 unbroken years until King George II (1726-1770)
This historic period was followed by colonization, another atrocious era on Africa, Asia, Oceania and American continent.
Up to 80 percent of the comments made references to the odd years of slave raids and colonization, justifying that the setting of the painting in crimson red and utter horror was proper and deliberate.
One comment noted that “the graffiti is neither a coincidence, nor an artistic error, but a purposeful signature authorised by the King himself to possibly tell the story of the history of his throne from the past.”
