ROYALS REPORT QUEEN ELIZABETH PORTRAIT
British conservatives and media got their knickers in a twist Tuesday after reports emerged that graduate students at Magdalen College at Oxford removed a 1952 photo portrait of Queen Elizabeth II from a common room as an unwelcome symbol of “recent colonial history.” According to Guido Fawkes, the right-wing website published by political blogger Paul Staines, a committee of students, many of them international students, voted to take the portrait down from the Middle Common Room wall, and to explore replacing it with “art by or of other influential and inspirational people.” The post decried what British conservatives consider another example of “woke” posturing that includes tearing down statues and removing portraits of historical figures believed connected to slavery or colonial abuse.