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British, Canadian, Australian, & New Zealander Royalty
Originally, all of the British Colonies were termed the British Empire. Our nation, or what would become the United States of America, was also part of the British Empire until we declared independence in 1776. We started out as 13 British colonies with a British king/queen & would remain that way for a couple of centuries. Eventually, those colonies would become the first 13 states to join in forming the newly independent nation: the U.S.A. The 13 states/former colonies were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia. It’s b strange to think that if we hadn’t declared complete independence from Britain, we would be sharing a joint monarchy with Britain, Canada, etc. Eventually though, as each of those Countries developed into independent & equal nations to Britain, it could no longer be called the British Empire. Each of those nations wanted to be acknowledged in its own right & not subservient to Britain, while still keeping historical ties & constitutional monarchy as their form of government. What was formerly a British Monarch in, say, colonial Canada, became a Canadian Monarch to Canadians, and so on. Also odd, but somewhat beautiful, that you would grow up learning about your nations mmonarchical form of government, while simultaneously learning your queen resides in another country for most of the year. Beautiful because of the preservation of tradition, respect & cultural loyalty; bizzare imagining the explanation: {teacher: “we are a monarchy & have a queen”} / {child: “where does our queen live”} / {teacher: “oh, she lives in a foreign country”} / {child: “eh 🤔🤨🫤😮😬”} 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣