Irish pop stars Jedward have lashed out at those mourning the late queen, telling her supporters to "get a grip" and reminding them of the royal family's colonial and imperialist past.
Queen Elizabeth II died last Thursday at the age of 96 and while there has been a worldwide outpouring of grief, in some countries, people are celebrating.
One country where some are celebrating is Ireland, where to this day there is a lasting bitterness toward England.
Northern Ireland remains a part of the United Kingdom, but the Queen is a divisive symbol who many consider a figurehead for the brutality suffered by the Irish at the hands of the British for centuries.
The outspoken duo, aged 30, were contestants on The X Factor in the U.K. in 2009, when they finished in sixth place.
On their joint Twitter account, they wrote on Sunday: "People in denial about Britain's Imperialist past need to get a grip. Change is hard when your education is a censored version of history."
People in denial about Britain's Imperialist past need to get a grip. Change is hard when your education is a censored version of history.
Ten days of national mourning began on Friday in the U.K., and the day of her funeral and that of the coronation of King Charles III will both be national holidays.
The Dublin-born singers also took aim at the new monarch, King Charles III, and called for a united Ireland, tweeting: "King Charles should hand back the six Irish counties on his visit to Northern Ireland-No war! Just words! It's time."
The twins also took part in a discussion about the Irish potato Famine, which was sparked on Irish Twitter following the Queen's death.
"Hi Royalists-British Imperialism was the cause of the Irish famine and millions of deaths around the world. We mourn for them. Sincerely, Ireland," they wrote.
Hi Royalists - British Imperialism was the cause of the Irish famine and millions of deaths around the world. We mourn for them. Sincerely, Ireland
In another tweet, the singers added: "Abolish the monarchy and give the people real democracy!"
Abolish the monarchy and give the people real democracy!
Jedward are not alone in their disdain for the public display of mourning in the U.K. over the queen's death and one other example is Uju Anya, a linguistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is at the center of a controversy for describing the late queen as the monarch of a "thieving raping genocidal empire" in a series of tweets.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), South Africa's third-biggest political party, also criticized the queen, who ascended to the throne in 1952, for reigning for 70 years as a head of an institution "built up, sustained, and living off a brutal legacy of dehumanization of millions of people across the world."
An Australian professor of indigenous studies at at Macquarie University, Sandy O'Sullivan, tweeted that Elizabeth II "wasn't a bystander to the effects of colonization and colonialism, she was an architect of it."
Meanwhile, former England soccer player Trevor Sinclair on Twitter said "black and brown" people should not mourn the queen's death as she allowed racism to "thrive" during her reign.
Newsweek has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment.
Jedward regularly use their platform to speak out on social issues and on July 4 this summer, they railed against the rollback of abortion rights in the United States, following the repeal of Roe vs. Wade.
"Happy Independence Day? ???? Women should be Independent to make their own choice on having an abortion! it's their Body not your control," the pop stars tweeted at the time.
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