I'm gonna show you how great I am.

This is our fighting power.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

Hello, and welcome to how to Take Over the World, where today I will be breaking down the life of Elizabeth the second, the recently deceased Queen of England.

And Queen Elizabeth II is the most different character I will have covered. She conquered no lands, started no businesses, invented nothing new,

climbed no ladders, created no art. She's the only subject of how to take over the world,

who reminds me of my grandma. And if her accomplishments are so different from the other people that we've studied on this show, why talk about her? For me, it's because I'd like to sort out

her legacy in my own mind. I like to

cast a wide net on social media. I like to see what everyone is saying. And within hours of her

death, there were those on the far left who were singing ding-dong the witch is dead.

According to them, Elizabeth II was the leader of a brutal empire that exploited and murdered

across the entire world on every continent.

And then there were those on the far right, who also didn't have good things to say about her,

but this time because she had overseen the dismantling of the British Empire.

She had brought to an end this glorious thing that had, you know, the sun never set on the British Empire

until Elizabeth II came along, right?

So I'm very intrigued by this contradiction.

Which was she?

Is she a symbol of colonization or decolonization?

And in either case, did she have anything to do with it?

Did she actually wield any power?

If so, how, and if not, why are we paying attention to her life at all?

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