President of Magdalen College, Dinah Rose QC, has hit back at criticism over the removal of the Queen’s portrait writing, „Magdalen strongly supports free speech and political debate, and the MCR’S right to autonomy.“ She further stated that the artwork was „an inexpensive print“ of the Queen bought in 2013, adding: „Are we going to police the posters they put on their walls? „Being a student is about more than studying. It’s about exploring and debating ideas. It’s sometimes about provoking the older generation. Looks like that isn’t so hard to do these days.“ Left unimpressed by the response from Magdalen President Rose, Mace-Archer-Mills directly addressed the college’s President, „There is more to this issue than just the removal of a portrait, and I hope that you of all people can see the deeper issue at hand. Should your students wish to make a statement, they should do so by going out into the world, create and effect change in the very regions in which they are complaining about. To remove a portrait of the Sovereign is not only offensive and disrespectful to those that have fought for her and this nation, but the very nations in which she granted and signed for their independence and newfound freedoms. The action taken by your students is an act of empty, pompous, vanity, and I fear there is no more education to be had at Oxford if these are the types of students you are turning out of your programmes.“

The assertions and defence of the the Queen’s portrait by Mace-Archer-Mills have appeared in a rather lengthy, but entertaining, letter to the President, copying in the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Zeitblatt has obtained a copy of Mace-Archer-Mills‘ letter to which he acknowledged that President Rose is the college’s the 43rd President and first woman to fill the post. He further praised her for her high marks in history when she studied at the college, which seemed for Mace-Archer-Mills to be a point of confusion, and called into question her support for the removal of the Queen’s portrait. „As an historian, President Rose should be the first to identify a Royal portrait as a direct link to her institutions long association with English, and British Kings. An historian should always be able to identify symbolism and heritage in any image projecting the majesty of a Monarch. President Rose’s stance on the removal of the portrait is baffling and should cause offence to any true historian.“ Despite the niceties within the introduction of his well thought out „skooling“ of Magdalen College’s President, Mace-Archer-Mills had a few things to say about the education students are receiving at the college, and further accused President Rose of supporting „woke“ cancel culture by allowing the removal of Her Majesty’s portrait, citing that the portrait was not „just a poster, but an image filled with symbolism and meaning“. This is the second such issue regarding the British Monarchy within the last two weeks at Oxford University, as the Oxford University Debating Society tabled and passed a motion last week to abolish the Monarchy. In response to this, Mace-Archer-Mills described the oldest university in the English speaking world  as a, „hotbed of leftists woke republicanism where they allow the patients to govern the asylum.“