I don’t think you need to think that before wondering if the UK should be the de facto leader in these things. I wouldn’t, but I can imagine people even in the UK (where I live) assuming that. The UK does seem to think that given the amount of support they had prepared for the recovery.
She is Queen and Defender of the Faith by hereditary succession.
She is Head of the Commonwealth because the sovereign members of the Commonwealth chose her to be Head.
While you’re learning, I’d point out that it’s properly today I learned.
It’s about 99.99% independent - the highest court of appeal in the Bahamas is the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council back in the UK. Many of the Caribbean Realms likewise.
But that’s not really a question of independence, to my mind. The JCPC is the their final court of appeal because they’ve chosen it to be that, not because Britain has imposed it. the Bahamas could end that tomorrow if they wanted, but they have chosen to keep it.
Oh aye, absolutely. I just commented to illustrate that the webs that bind the Commonwealth countries aren’t always that obvious. I mean the UK itself isn’t a 100% independent nation (at the time of writing anyway).
Its not well known, but after WW2, Norway inquired about joining.
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Seems like it was a tentative stab at a really quite close economic union too. Huh, learned something new today.
I wonder how that would have turned out?
Could have been quite positive for the Scottish part of the UK. Orkney’s closer to Oslo than it is to London, as I recall being told by a number of Orcadians (even Aberdeen’s about 50:50)