Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills

Mace-Archer-Mills was born in Glens Falls, New York, and grew up in Bolton Landing, New York. His father, Thomas Sr. is of Italian descent.[11] In his youth, he gained an interest in British history and had visited the United Kingdom extensively as a teenager. While at high school, his anglophilia was so strong that he started to use the phrase "God save the Queen" and also attempted to speak in a British accent. Mace-Archer-Mills began using the accent while he was working on a high school production of the musical Oliver! in which he played Mr. Sowerberry. He says this voice has now completely replaced his native Upstate New York accent, even when he visits his family back in America.[11]

He studied politics and history at Coastal Carolina University, and after graduating became a real estate agent in New York State under the auspices of Imperial Group International, where he used the name Thomas J Muscatello-DeLacroix.[11] Later, he moved back to South Carolina into the town of Murrells Inlet as a brokerage owner. He eventually settled in to London in 2012 which he became a property consultant, and founded the British Monarchist Society.[17] In 2018, he stated he was applying for British citizenship.[11][12] He has written and published two coffee-table books about the British monarchy and cocktails, To the Queen: A Royal Drinkology in 2012[18] and Their Majesties’ Mixers: A Royal Drinkology in 2017.[19] In 2018, to celebrate the wedding of the Sussexes he got into the world of cryptocurrencies, by launching a royal-themed cryptocurrency call "Crown Royal" which was offered at 500 Royl to one Ethereum.[20][21]

The British Monarchist Society is a self-described non-partisan monarchist organization started by Mace-Archer-Mills in 2012 as a private limited company under guarantee.[1] In 2017, Mace-Archer-Mills and the society were involved in a conference called the Qatar Global Security & Stability Conference, which was set-up by London-based Qatari opposition leader Khalid Al-Hail.[22] The conference in question notably included speakers such as Conservative MP Daniel Kaczynski.[23] In 2019, the British Monarchist Society was dissolved itself and re-launched the association [24][25] Mace-Archer-Mills left as a company director of the society in June 2020, but continued as editor and owner of the society's magazine Crown & Country.[26][27]

In June 2021 one of the patrons on the society Conservative MP Joy Morrissey together with the society, proposed that a framed picture of the monarch should be in every home, company and institute in the country as part of a Britishness campaign.[28][29] This proposal which was announced in the same week as the "One Britain One Nation" children’s singing initiative, was swiftly condemned by commentators saying that it was jingoistic and silly.[30] The society later put out a statement on social media saying it was part of an idea for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and it was copying a similar scheme in Canada and Australia.[31]

Mace-Archer-Mills died on January 2, 2023 at the age of 43.[32]

• International Monarchist League – The main British monarchist pressure group
• Republic - The main British republican organisation

• Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills personal website, Mr. Monarchy
• The British Monarchist Society
• Crown & Country Magazine