[MortMan]

If they were colonies when she was crowned and commonwealth when she dies, they’re mad at the wrong person.

[mass55th]

"If they were colonies when she was crowned and commonwealth when she dies, they’re mad at the wrong person.If they were colonies when she was crowned and commonwealth when she dies, they’re mad at the wrong person."

Doesn't Great Britain have a Constitutional Monarchy? And doesn't that mean that the Crown has no authority to grant independence to any of its colonies, and that the authority has to specifically come from Parliament?

[Ancesthntr]

“If they were colonies when she was crowned and commonwealth when she dies, they’re mad at the wrong person.”
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Exactly. Also, it’s not as if she personally ordered the British Army and Navy to seize territories and make them colonies. She inherited the throne, as well as the way the world was in her youth. She didn’t make it that way. For that matter, she didn’t decolonize, either. She was a ceremonial monarch, not a political decision-maker. Why anybody would be mad at that lady, I can’t understand. I can understand British taxpayers being opposed to an entire royal family being paid millions of dollars a year and living in literal palaces at public expense, but to be angry at Queen Elizabeth for the way the world was, through no fault of her own, is sheer stupidity. As you said, they are mad at the wrong person.