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.[10] 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 said this voice has now completely replaced his native Upstate New York accent, even when he visited his family back in America.[10]
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.[10] 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 and founded the British Monarchist Society.[16][17] In 2018, he stated he was applying for British citizenship.[10][11] 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 called "Crown Royal" which was offered at 500 Royl to one Ethereum.[20]
British Monarchist Society
The British Monarchist Society was a self-described non-partisan monarchist organization started by Mace-Archer-Mills in 2011[21] or 2012 as a private limited company under guarantee. In 2017, Mace-Archer-Mills and the society were involved in a conference called with 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] 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.[24]
In June 2021 one of the patrons of 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.[25] 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.[26]
Death
Mace-Archer-Mills died on January 2, 2023, at the age of 43.[21]
^DeLacroix-Mills, Thomas J. M. Mace Archer (2012). To the queen: a royal drinkology : the diamond jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1952-2012. London: Diamond Rose & Crown Ltd. ISBN9780957267503. OCLC828180962.
^DeLacroix-Mills, Thomas J. M. Mace Archer (2017-07-17). Their Majesties' mixers : "when they reign, they pour" : a royal drinkology. Croydon, Surrey. ISBN9781911425991. OCLC999609513.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
