Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills


Thomas James Mace-Archer-Mills is an American commentator on the British royal family. In 2012 he founded the British Monarchist Society, an organisation that supports the monarchy of the United Kingdom.
He has been interviewed as a supporter of the British monarchy in both domestic and international media including BBC Radio, The Economist, Voice of America, Europe 1, SRG SSR, Comedy Central and NTV Russia. During the wedding of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, he provided commentary for the French news channel BFM TV.
On the 31 May 2018, the Wall Street Journal conducted a background investigation into Thomas, resulting in an article containing accusations that he was a charlatan.

Background

Thomas was born in Glens Falls, New York and grew up in Bolton Landing, New York. His father, Thomas Sr. is of Italian descent, and his mother Regina is of British-American and Irish-American heritage. 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. Thomas learned the accent while he was working on a high school production of the musical Oliver! in which he played Mr. Sowerberry. This learned voice has now completely replaced his native Upstate New York accent, even when he visits his family back in America.
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. 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. He has said that he is currently applying for British citizenship. He has written and published two coffee-table books about the British monarchy and cocktails, To the Queen: A Royal Drinkology in 2012 and Their Majesties’ Mixers: A Royal Drinkology in 2017.
In 2004, he was involved in a near-fatal car accident in Murrells Inlet, from a driver crossing the central reserve and hitting his vehicle head-on.

British Monarchist Society

The British Monarchist Society is non-partisan monarchist organisation started by Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills in 2012 as a private limited company under guarantee. In 2017, Mace-Archer-Mills and the society was involved in a conference called the Qatar Global Security & Stability Conference, which was set-up by London-based Qatari opposition leader Khalid al-Hail. The conference in question notably included speakers such as Conservative MP, Daniel Kaczynski. In July 2019, the British Monarchist Society was dissolved, and it is no longer operating.