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Nations divided over role of monarchy in their countries as Queen is laid to rest

Eight of the 12 Caribbean countries belonging to the British Commonwealth still retain the monarch as their head of state but recently the popularity of the royal family has declined

Daily Mirror · Sep 19, 2022

Queen Elizabeth: monarch who had to adjust to the shift from Empire to Commonwealth

On her 21st birthday, 21 April 1947, when Britain’s Princess Elizabeth was accompanying her parents and her sister on a tour of South Africa, she spoke “to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live, whatever race they came from, and whatever language they speak”.

The Conversation · Sep 9, 2022