Legal 'owner' of UK land hosts liars lunch & dictators' dinner

Thu May 17 22:59:14 BST 2012

Fury as Queen plans dinner with despots
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/119138
Thursday 17 May 2012 - by Paddy McGuffin
Human rights campaigners hit out today at 
Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg Gotha's decision to invite 
the heads of repressive regimes to join her for 
an opulent jubilee lunch at Windsor Castle today.
Invitations to the lunch, which will be hosted by 
Ms Windsor (pictured) and will be followed by a 
dinner at Buckingham Palace hosted by Prince 
Charles, have reportedly been extended to the 
crown heads of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, 
Qatar and Swaziland as well as other countries 
with dubious human rights records.
The apparent invitation of the Bahraini monarch 
follows a recent report by Amnesty International 
which stated that the regime continues to 
brutally suppress opposition campaigners and that 
the use of detention without trial and torture is widespread.
Organisers of the Bahrain Grand Prix were 
condemned last month for going ahead with the 
race despite the ongoing repression.
And human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said 
it was "outrageous that the Queen has invited 
royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee."
"Inviting blood-stained despots brings shame to 
our monarchy and tarnishes the diamond jubilee celebrations.
"It is a kick in the teeth to pro-democracy 
campaigners and political prisoners in these totalitarian royal regimes."
Campaign Against Arms Trade spokeswoman Sarah 
Waldron added: "This invitation, alongside the 
UK's continuing promotion and supply of military 
equipment to Bahrain, sends completely the wrong 
message - one of approval rather than condemnation of human rights abuses."
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace confirmed that 
the two events were scheduled for today but 
declined to give details of invitees.

Guess who's coming to dinner? Anger over Queen's jubilee bash guest list
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/17/dinner-anger-queen-jubilee-bash
Protesters say invitation list includes monarchs 
of several countries accused of human rights abuses
Caroline Davies - guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 May 2012 18.33 BST
The trickiest part of hosting any big anniversary 
bash is always the guest list  as the Queen is 
discovering before an unprecedented lunch for the 
world's crowned heads on Friday.
Does one invite the ruler accused of turning a 
"blind eye" to human rights abuses? Or the one 
with the "glad eye" and, at the last count, 13 
wives? Then there is the cousin who snubs you over a little local difficulty.
By Thursday evening, neither Buckingham Palace 
nor the Foreign Office had released any details 
of who would be attending the glittering diamond 
jubilee gathering at Windsor Castle.
But the invitation list included the King of 
Bahrain, Hamad al-Khalifa, whose regime brutally 
suppressed pro-democracy protests last year. And 
Swaziland's polygamous King Mswati III seems set 
to take a seat amid the heraldic splendour of St 
George's Hall. [the home of the Medieval 13 + 13, or Order Of The Garter]
One definite no-show will be Queen Sofía of 
Spain, ordered by her government to turn down the 
invitation in response to a planned trip next 
month by the Earl of Wessex to Gibraltar, the UK 
overseas territory Spain wants returned to its 
sovereignty. Her husband, King Juan Carlos, is 
presently incapacitated due to a fall while 
shooting elephants in Botswana as his country teeters on the economic brink.
The former Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane 
accused the FCO on Thursday of placing the Queen 
in an impossible position. The Labour MP said: 
"Many in Britain will regret that the foreign 
secretary, who approves all invitations sent in 
the Queen's name as head of state, has decided to 
include a representative of the Bahraini regime 
which has done such terrible things to its own 
people since the Arab awakening a year ago."
The Foreign Office said it had advised on 
"logistics", adding that the invitations would 
have been issued by the Queen in a private capacity.
Advisers to the Queen would argue it is not for 
her to unilaterally snub rulers with whom the 
British government still does business. And to 
avoid potential offence, the luxuriously thick 
gilt-edged invitations  known as "stiffies" in 
the royal trade  have been dispatched to all 
crowned heads with the full knowledge of the FCO. Not all will be attending.
Her Majesty is rolling out the full red-carpet 
treatment, inviting the Duke and Duchess of 
Cambridge, as well as Prince Harry and Princesses 
Beatrice and Eugenie, to the lunch. Prince 
Charles is hosting his own glittering dinner for 
the foreign royals at Buckingham Palace on Friday night.
Protesters are keen to make their point. The 
Swazi exiles group Swazi Vigil picketed the Savoy 
hotel, where Mswati, who collects wives from the 
country's annual reed dance, was said to be 
installed on Wednesday with a 30-strong entourage.
Highlighting the impoverished kingdom's high 
HIV/Aids infection rates, they waved placards 
reading: "Let them eat cow dung", a reference to 
Swazi citizens being reduced to eating dung to 
fill their stomachs in order to take the HIV 
medication provided by non-governmental organisations.
The protest co-ordinator, Thobile Gwebu, said 
they had chosen the Savoy rather than Windsor for 
their protest because they did not want to spoil 
the Queen's jubilee celebrations.
But, she added, they had written to Her Majesty 
politely asking if she could perhaps "have a 
word" with the Sherborne-educated absolute monarch.
The human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell 
accused eight countries whose leaders may be on 
the guest list of human rights abuses.
He said: "It is outrageous that the Queen has 
invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.
"She should not host the monarchs of countries 
such as Brunei, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, 
Saudi Arabia, Swaziland and United Arab Emirates."
He added: "All eight royal families preside over 
a variety of human rights abuses, such as 
detention without trial, torture, the denial of 
free speech, restrictions on press freedom, 
discrimination against women, oppression of 
minority faiths, homophobic persecution, 
ill-treatment of guest workers and the violent 
suppression of peaceful protests."
The Foreign Office said that "all World 
Sovereigns" were invited to the event which was " 
organised by the Royal Household, with assistance 
and co-ordination by the FCO". The UK was a " a 
long standing friend and ally" of Bahrain. And 
the "strong relationship" allowed "full and frank 
discussion" on issues of concern, including human rights.
The UK government supported reforms already 
underway and want to help promote that reform, 
including moves to bring to account individuals 
responsible for human rights abuse.

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