I can hear the laughter on the Indian Sub-Continent of those who follow the news and know what is going on in the UK.
I smiled myself.
We have the first Prime Minister of Indian descent with an Indian national wife and wife’s family. After the hundreds of years of wars with the UK and the butchery of Independence this in itself is not just a reversal of empire but a significant cause for laughter. Because this PM of Indian descent just told the King of England where he could and could not go.
No finer demonstration of the death of Empire or greater irony of history could have been designed.