Over the weekend, more than 2,500 Hong Kongers gathered in front of the British Consulate General to pay tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II. Although the legacy of the former „colonial mistress“ is certainly controversial in the special administrative region, the gathering was also a subversive act for some: during the 2019 umbrella protests, demonstrators had intoned „God Save The Queen“ in front of the consulate – to commemorate the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which was supposed to secure basic freedom rights for citizens. The National Security Act for Hong Kong, passed in June 2020 under pressure from Beijing, drastically restricted freedom of assembly in the city.