Britain's had kings and queens some more than a thousand years.

And as with US presidents, some have been magnificent, others have been what we might now call problematic.

Henry VIII, for example, had very serious issues with what would now be known as toxic masculinity.

His daughter, Queen Mary, was quite fond of burning Protestants in front of jeering crowds.

Similarly, the British Empire committed

many heinous deeds in the context of a darker, more ignorant time. But that all happened in

the past. That's how history works. None of today's royal family had anything to do with those

problematic issues. So why should they apologize for them? Well, campaigners in the Caribbean

nations are again demanding that King Charles issues a formal apology for his ancestors'

involvement in the slave trade. They also want financial reparations from today's public

purse to compensate them for their past suffering. British royals are now routinely barraked

for ancestral sins on every tour that they go on,

with demands that they issue apologies to indigenous communities in Canada and accusations they've

crushed the development of Jamaica. This week, the Church of England, committed to raising a billion

pounds for reparations, even at its congregations dwindle and its churches fall apart.

The exact same movements happening across the United States with an increasing clamour

for the descendants of slaves to be compensated for their ancestors' suffering.

Now look, there's no denying that slavery was an evil stain on humanity.

In fact, that's why the British Empire eventually made it illegal

217 years ago. But even in this height, very few

people actually owned slaves. And one thing is for certain. None of the people who foot the

bill today were responsible for any of it. To me, this entire narrative is regressive and divisive.

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