There is a clear effort to involve the commonwealth in the coronation, with the Palace announcing that nearly 400 Armed Forces personnel from commonwealth countries are taking part in the 6,000 ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive for their royal tour of Australia on Friday, Oct. 18. From Australia, the two will visit Samoa as part of the King and Queen's first tour of a Commonwealth ...

After World War II, the British Empire would continue to contract, as countries under its colonial rule fought for and gained their independence. In 1949, the British Commonwealth of Nations would ...

In this video, the King, 75, and Queen, 77, have arrived in the country for a historic first tour to one of the foreign realms that have Charles as monarch and head of state. Their plane touched ...

The forthcoming visit to Australia will be the 75-year-old British monarch’s first trip to a Commonwealth realm since he ascended the throne.

One Commonwealth realm, however, also announced its intention to hold a referendum on whether to remove the British monarch as its head of state. “This is not an act of hostility, or any ...

King Charles III’s May 6 coronation will be a moment of celebration for the British royal family. But for many of the 14 Commonwealth realm countries still tied to the British monarchy, it could ...

Home Digest speed read Some parts of King Charles III's realm are already moving to replace him with their own head of state Newsletter sign up By Peter Weber, The Week US published September 12, 2022 ...

His position as head of the Commonwealth of 56 independent nations—most but not all of them with links to the British Empire—has also raised some eyebrows. When the last Commonwealth Heads of ...

Elizabethan era Upon Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne in 1952, the Commonwealth had already lost Ireland, in 1948. Eire gained its autonomy in 1921 after 800 years of British ...

There was much surprise when his first overseas tours as monarch were announced as France and Germany. Those were followed by travel to Kenya, which is a Commonwealth member but not a realm.