In one foul swoop, Morrissey has simultaneously paid tribute to Prince and lambasted the Queen. As far as the former Smiths frontman is concerned, Prince ‘is far more ‘royal’ than Elizabeth 2’.
The 56-year-old took issue with the coverage of the Queen’s 90th birthday which happened to fall on the same day as Prince’s sudden death. He also decried the longest-serving monarch’s hereditary privilege.
“Prince, who made something of his life as opposed to having fortune handed to him, is far more ‘royal’ than Elizabeth 2, and he will be mourned far more than she,” Morrissey wrote in a emotive statement on his fansite True To You.
“For she could never make herself lovable, no matter how many paid and promoted non-stories flood the newspapers of the world. The laughing gulls of Buckingham Palace will never allow you to forget who wields the stick. And, of course, we know very well what gulls tend to do on the people below”.
“Prince is the royal that people love, whereas Elizabeth 2 was thrust on the people who have never been asked whether or not they want her,” Morrissey added.
He also rebuked the coverage of the iconic Purple Rain singer’s death for not crediting Prince’s fellow veganism and choices on animal rights – an issue very close to Morrissey’s heart.
Prince died in his Paisley Park home at the age of 57 last Thursday and was cremated at an intimate service for friends, family and fellow musicians on Saturday in Minessesota.
