No wonder the Brits still have a Queen...

If this is the best the republicans (anti-Queen forces) can do in response to the wedding.

Their press release excoriates the Royal Family for inviting representatives of "Saudi Arabia, Oman, Brunei, Qatar, Swaziland, Lesotho, Bhutan and Kuwait, all of which have poor human rights records, limited political freedoms and histories of state violence."

The problem with this list is that two of the eight countries they mention are democracies. Bhutan and Lesotho are not perfect democracies, but they can't be described as having poor human rights records or histories of state violence. Bhutan's current King has actually been instrumental in insisting on free elections, and is currently roughly 1/3 of the way through personally walking the entire country so he can meet everyone. It's not a free country yet, but it's getting there.

Lesotho has been a free country in previous years, but a bitter electoral dispute has reduced it's ranking. In the meantime Lesotho shocked the world by being 8th in gender equality.

Regardless Republic implied both countries are dictatorships run by their royal families. This is simply not the case. I'd guess somebody thought due diligence was looking at the Freedom House rankings without reading them. Unfortuneately for them the mistake looks racist. Not just a little racist, either. It looks like they believe that nobody can run a black or brown nation without being as evil as the Saudis.