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The Commonwealth of Nations, often referred to as the British Commonwealth or simply the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territ
The prime ministers of the five members at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference: (L-R) Mackenzie King (Canada), Jan Smuts (South Africa), Winston Churchill (United Kingdom), Peter Fraser (New Zealand) and John Curtin (Australia)
A poster from the Second World War, depicting soldiers from Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Colony of Southern Rhodesia, South Africa and the British Raj
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving Head of the Commonwealth, was in office for 70 years.
The 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa
Commonwealth realm
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A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state in the Commonwealth of Nations that has the same constitutional monarch and head of state as the other realms. The current monarch is King Charles III. Except
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…of law, as promoted by the quadrennial Commonwealth Games. The head of the Commonwealth is Charles III. He is king of 15 member states, known as the Commonwealth realms, while 36 other members are republics, and five have different monarchs. Although he became head upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, the position…
High Commissioner of Belize to the UK meets with the British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. High Commissioners act as liaisons between the governments of the Commonwealth realms.
Charles III opening a session of parliament in the United Kingdom in 2023 (top) and in Canada in 2025 (bottom)
William, Prince of Wales, the present heir apparent in all of the Commonwealth realms
Prince George, second in the line of succession