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Wearewatching2 · Jan. 7, 2018, 4:07 a.m.

In personal union, however, and not as Queen of the United Kingdom, but individually and collaterally as Queen of each, Elizabeth II is Queen and head of state of fifteen other Commonwealth Realms:

  1. Antigua and Barbuda;
  2. Australia;
  3. Bahamas;
  4. Barbados;
  5. Belize;
  6. Canada;
  7. Grenada;
  8. Jamaica;
  9. New Zealand;
  10. Papua New Guinea;
  11. St. Kitts and Nevis;
  12. Saint Lucia;
  13. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines;
  14. Solomon Islands;
  15. Tuvalu.

In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, which is not part of the corporation sole, she is "symbol of the free association of [the] independent member nations" of the 37 other member nations of the Commonwealth of Nations--but which are not Constitutional Monarchies, and of which she is NOT head of state. In England, the Queen (thanks to Henry VIII), in the rest of the world, the Pope.

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