Oxford Students Remove Queen’s Portrait From College Common Room Over ‘Colonial History’

Oxford Students Remove Queen’s Portrait From College Common Room Over ‘Colonial History’
Queen Elizabeth II reacts during her visit to the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth, southern England on May 22, 2021. Steve Parsons / Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Lily Zhou
Updated:

A portrait of the Queen was removed from an Oxford college common room because the monarch represents “recent colonial history.”

Political website Guido Fawkes on Thursday reported that a student committee from the Middle Common Room (MCR) at Magdalen College, Oxford University voted to remove the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a “substantial” margin, because “for some students depictions of the monarch and the British monarchy represent recent colonial history.”