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Ali Harb

Queen’s death accelerates ex-colonies’ push to ditch UK crown

The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, adorned with a Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown in London, September 14 [Daniel Leal/Pool Photo via AP Photo]

The death of Queen Elizabeth II will accelerate the push by former UK colonies to ditch the British crown, experts and advocates have said, amid heightened anti-colonial sentiments in the remaining Commonwealth realms.

Despite the collapse of the British Empire in the last century, 14 countries have kept the monarch as their head of state after gaining independence.

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