Commonwealth countries consider severing ties with monarchy after queen’s death
The passing of Elizabeth, a unifying figure more beloved than her son, King Charles III, comes as several Commonwealth realms are reassessing their relationships with the crown.expressed sadness over the monarch’s death. But many of those countries, former outposts of the empire, havecalls for atonement, reparations and independence.
, swearing in its first president in a ceremony at which Charles condemned the “appalling atrocity of slavery” and praised islanders for forging their new path “with extraordinary fortitude.” “Within our region, there is a definite push toward bringing home the head of state,” Henry Usher, Belize’s minister of constitutional and political reform, told The Washington Post. “I think it’s important that we can’t be having a head of state that’s living thousands of miles away and is not in tune with what’s happening locally. … The rallying cry in the Caribbean is that the people are sovereign.”the Nassau Guardian last week that a referendum on becoming a republic is “always on the table.
After Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, with the sun already setting on the British Empire, she and Philip embarked on a six-month tour of the Commonwealth. “To that new conception of an equal partnership of nations and races I shall give my heart and soul every day of my life.”
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