I think there's just a teeny weeny possibility that actually he's having a dig at the liberal-left teaching where somebody's historical prominence is elevated to that of Queen Victoria due to their ethnicity, when there are hundreds or thousands of people who were far more notable, but alas, being in olde England, they were pasty white…

So its a double irony then that the 'liberal-left' teaching was meant to counter the absurdly ill thoughtout prominence given to olde pasty white hanoverian people like queen victoria.

But really i agree with you; i always found the idea of drumming in the saxe-coburg-gothas as figures of great englishness to be properly uplifting and empowering. After all a head of state descended from immigrants is brilliant.

Liddle Rod – who’s been obsessed with Mary Seacole for months now because of her mixed-race background

I think there's just a teeny weeny possibility that actually he's having a dig at the liberal-left teaching where somebody's historical prominence is elevated to that of Queen Victoria due to their ethnicity, when there are hundreds or thousands of people who were far more notable, but alas, being in olde England, they were pasty white…