Let's Be the British Empire

I'm Sir Edward Elgar

Yes, all the other Sirs look like me.

I am the alleged spread of Christianity, Democracy, and proper British sophistication across the world.

I'm 1997 when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese administration. The handover marked the final end of Britain's empire.

And more recently the end of Hong Kong

I am the fabulous and oh-so infamous Koh-i-Noor diamond

I'm the jewel in the crown.

I’m a pith helmet.

I'm the cast of "Gilded age" hoping for the best

I’m opium, freely distributed by the Scots - soon hapless Chinese will be hooked allowing us to plunder their silks, jade, porcelain, craft and land! Hong Kong will be our outpost in the Far East forever 🎋🍜

I'm the single sex boarding school being spread world wide in the empires wake and unintentionally introducing generations of pubescent boys to the the concept of prison sexuality.

“Are there no workhouses?”

i am the Mad King who lost America

I'm Oscar Wilde and I am not a homosexual

I'm slavery

I’m the first labor law in Manchester. Passed in 1830 …. no child workers under nine years of age employers must have an age certificate for their child workers children of 9-13 years to work no more than nine hours a day children of 13-18 years to work no more than 12 hours a day children are not to work at night two hours schooling each day for children four factory inspectors appointed to enforce the law This law caused an exodus of companies from Manchester to the United States. The Americans didn’t have such absurd demands.

I’m all the horrible problems in the modern Middle East and Southwest Asia.

… And Africa….

I am the sodomy laws that Britain introduced. I am still vigorously defended and enforced, viz., Uganda, Nigeria, Maldives, Zimbabwe, Malaysia, and on and on.

R15 Well, it was not the cause of the Empire...

i am the successor state of the British empire, one of the most successful countries in the world, at the expense of the rest of the world

I'm the sun never setting...

I’m the pink on maps.

I am the Mayflower ship

I'm Anne Lister and I dislike R14.

I'm the orphan who wants some more.

I’m the tiresome anti-colonial troll who has no scope of history

I'm the table legs which will cause horniness if not covered properly

I'm Charles Dickens and ALL of my novels make fun of England.

I’m a contender in the Scramble for Africa…the reverberations are still felt today…

I'm John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, who as Lord Lorne married Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. Our marriage remained childless, as our interests lay elsewhere.

I was appointed Governor General of Canada, and as Marquess and Marchioness of Lorne Louise and I took up residence there from 1878 to 1883. I travelled throughout Canada during my tenure, and I got to meet members of the First Nations.

My, Oh, My! Does the Empire have such wonderful specimens of muscular manhood! Many of the men looked particularly fetching in their, tight buckskins! I many loggers and huntsmen throughout the provinces who lived many months without the benefit of feminine company. I wish I could have joined them in the back country!

Back home in England, I made the acquaintance of various men. Lord John Gower was a sculptor like my wife. Bad show that my brother-in-law HRH claimed Gower was guilty of "unnatural practices." Poor sot...Gower should have been more discreet.

The American journalist William Fullerton was another friend. Damn! Did that man have fetching eyes!!

I’m the black crepe widows weeds.

I am

A Passage To India

I’m Australia

I'm the gin. Without me, you'd be nothing!

I'm St. John Rivers.

I’m a crown colony. Don’t call me a dependent territory, thank you.

I'm the old lady archetype of the 1960s and 70s. I'm based on widows weeds. See me in The Monkees, Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. Probably

I’m the “Jolly good show!” after conquering another island

I'm the Cleveland Street Scandal, where aristocrats went to a male brothel to hook up with boys who delivered telegrams

I'm Henry James, one of the few Americans that are acceptable.

I'm an Englishman.

I'm the English guy who did fuck those wonderful specimens of muscular manhood. The tight buckskins were quickly removed.

I'm John Brown. I looked after Her Maj when Prince Albert died. Some folks thought we slept together and may have secretly married.

[quote]I'm Queen Victoria

And we are Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India

I am an Anglo-Indian who believes he can pass in London with his fair skin, public school vocalizing and pleasantly detached demeanor.

I cannot and will not.

I'm Queen Victoria's personal fortune. Possibly 3 billion in today's pounds.

[quote] I travelled throughout Canada during my tenure, and I got to meet members of the First Nations.

Did he ever make it up to Nunavut?

I’m the ones that got away.

[quote]I'm the orphan who wants some more.

I can empathize.

I’m the Remittance Man, sent to some far away country to live out my life pleasantly sozzled. I’m a disgrace at the local expat club and there are many rumors about the goings on at my bungalow. Let’s just say living arrangements are fluid.

I’m the Viceroy of Indja.

I am the largest and most loyal bit of pink on the map. No one really cares about Canada though.

I'm Julie Andrews