Students at the University of Oxford want the royal family out of the picture.
Dinah Rose, the president of Oxford’s Magdalen College, said graduate students with the Middle Common Room voted to take down a portrait they first hung of Queen Elizabeth II in 2013.
“Magdalen strongly supports free speech and political debate, and the MCR’S right to autonomy,” Rose said, noting the portrait will be “safely stored” in the event the students reverse their decision.
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The president encouraged those who are “currently sending obscene and threatening messages to the College staff” to “consider pausing, and asking [themselves] whether that is really the best way to show [their] respect for the Queen.”
“Or [they should ask themselves] whether she’d be more likely to support the traditions of free debate and democratic decision-making that we are keeping alive at Magdalen,” she continued.
The vote prompted outrage from those saying the “woke” students are attempting to “cancel” the queen.
Wet woke students from Magdalen College, Oxford vote to cancel the Queen… absurd, disrespectful, frankly pathetic. She is a beacon of duty, service and commitment to our beloved nation. They should be ashamed of themselves. https://t.co/neCy93wI3O
— Richard Tice (@TiceRichard) June 9, 2021
If you’re unable to cope with seeing a portrait of the Queen, I’m not sure you’re up to going to nursery school, let alone Magdalen College, Oxford. You’re not “woke”, you’re just ridiculous posturing fools. https://t.co/bAkugQS5hl
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) June 8, 2021
Oxford Uni removing picture of our Queen! Sick of this woke nonsense. A picture of Her Majesty is proudly displayed in my home. #GodSaveTheQueen pic.twitter.com/Lz303h4Afj
— Andrea Jenkyns MP (@andreajenkyns) June 9, 2021
Just ordered another portrait of the Queen to hang in my office – our longest serving Sovereign & Head of State.
Probably ?send one to Oxford’s Magdalen College as well since they seemed to have misplaced a copy… Hope it really brightens up their common room. #GodSaveTheQueen pic.twitter.com/0HUHwOpMDr
— Joy Morrissey MP (@joymorrissey) June 9, 2021
Considering Her Majesty The Queen to be a symbol of colonialism is utterly ridiculous!
Ironically, no one has decolonised more than her.
The Queen is a British institution, representing and all that unites us.??
The full debate from this morning’s @GMB:https://t.co/RWM5Z1mLlU
— Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) June 9, 2021
The Queen’s portrait was removed from the Middle Common Room of Magdalen College, Oxford after a vote by its MCR Committee, which held her to be a symbol of colonialism. As a former MCR President of Merton, Oxford’s oldest college, I am appalled. She presided over decolonisation!
— Alan Sked (@profsked) June 8, 2021
Cretinous Oxford students vote to “Take Down Colonial” Queen’s Portrait”
The only way to end this is for donors to defund them. The government pays 8% of their upkeep – let’s start with that. This moronic national self-loathing has to stop
— Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) June 8, 2021
Oxford University take down the picture of the Queen. They want to replace it with someone “inspirational”. Can anyone name a person more “inspirational” than the Queen?
— Carol Donaldson (@canadiancarol1) June 9, 2021
The queen recently became a great-grandmother for the 11th time after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced the June 4 birth of a baby girl with her namesake, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.
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The queen is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on June 13 at Windsor Castle, outside of London, during his first international trip since assuming the presidency.
Representatives for Oxford and Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner‘s requests for comment.
