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This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

On 11 September 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to Commonwealth Realm. The result of the discussion was not moved.

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Grenada

I don't believe Grenada uses the "United Kingdom" in its monarch's title/style, anymore - effective upon Charles III's accession. Thus for the moment, leaving Canada as the only non-UK realm continuing to use the "United Kingdom". GoodDay (talk) 15:43, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Regions discussion redux

@Vic Park: Again, per Talk:Commonwealth realm/Archive 21#Realms by region, there was a clear consensus from the participants involved that the listing of regions was not necessary. To reiterate the participants' points, it adds "confusion", was a "pointless addition resulting in unnecessary debate [and] Adds nothing", and to reiterate my own arguments is a category that doesn't provide "any real context to the article topic itself (that is, what is a CR)" and is something that could be expounded on in the section's lead paragraph. The conversation afterwards was myself attempting to bridge this rationale to exclude population as well, but I was unsuccessful in swaying the participants there.

If you or anyone would like to reexplore this discussion, I would be more than happy to, but I believe the last discussion on the issue made it clear that there is an existing consensus among the page's editors not to include regions for now. Leventio (talk) 04:50, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Westminster system, prime minister (head of government), governor general (monarchy rep except UK), high commissioner (ambassador to the various governments

Recommend some or more text on Westminster system, prime minister (head(s) of government), governor general (monarchy rep except UK, basically chosen by the prime minister/government appointed by king), high commissioner (ambassador(s) between the various governments) be added the article to clarify how it works, and once added to the body a mention in the lead. Right now none of this seems to be explained except perhaps indirectly in some cases. Alanscottwalker (talk) 15:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Definition without Charles?

I edited the definition, to replace Charles III with "the monarch of the United Kingdom". This was reverted by User:Leventio, with the reason:

" the 14 other Commonwealth realms do not have the King of the UK as their head of state, they have the King of Australian/Bahamas/Canada/etc. The officeholders in these 15 cases being held by a singular person (being Charles), hence the use of the person instead of using one (of his 15) titles as the thing to note".

I have two problems with this: My main concern is that this definition is only relevant at this time, and cannot be applied historically. According to the text as it stands, there were NO Commonwealth realms prior to 2022. My suggested fix would be something along the lines of:

"A Commonwealth realm is one of a group of sovereign states within the Commonwealth of Nations which have the same person, currently Charles III, as their monarch and head of state."

Note the switch to plural - if the CR's are not linked to a single entity, they can only be defined as a group. I realize that the following sentences

My second problem/question is: Is it really true that Charles is "independently" monarch of all the realms? Without going to sources, our article on the Constitution of New Zealand states that "the head of state of the United Kingdom under the Act of Settlement 1701 is also the head of state of New Zealand." The Constitution of Australia article mentions that the enacting law states that references to "the Queen" are references to "Her Majesty's heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom" - and that academics disagree on the consequences of this.

It seems pretty clear that: If any of the 14 other realms, by whatever means, end up deciding to have a different monarch, or no monarch at all, no other realm would be affected. If the UK changes its monarch - again, by peaceful or violent revolution, reinterpreting the Act of Settlement, or some other means - the end result, at least for the two realms I looked into, would be uncertain.

Bottom line: I do think that the current wording (and my suggested change) underplays the role of the United Kingdom, and the link between the British Empire and the Commonwealth. I am happy for a compromise though - and also value the input of anyone with a better knowledge of constitutional law(s).

NisJørgensen (talk) 11:09, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for having you dive down a rabbit hole of constitutionalities due to the initial rationale I provided, but this is really a syntax issue (or rather misundestanding) I'm starting to realize.

I believe you may be misreading the first sentence. The definition is actually simply in bold: A Commonwealth realm is one of a group of sovereign states within the Commonwealth of Nations which have the same person, currently Charles III, as their monarch and head of state.

That said, I don't necessarily disagree with your point of needing time-independent phrases, though the way the sentence is presently structured, that would simply be done by removing the ", currently Charles III," Hilariously copy/pasted your suggested lead thinking it was the original lead. In light of this I actually quite like your proposed change.

Concerning the "independently monarch" thing though, note that most of those documents were written prior to the emergence of Divisible Crowns, when the Crown was still largely seen as indivisible. This emergence is precisely why the disagreements you mention exists in the first place, and is something I would argue is another reason why its use should be avoided.

Saying all this though, tbh, my edit was moreso motivated by just restoring a prior concensus I thought existed and parroted some points I heard used before. So I'm more then happy to adopt your proposed changes. Leventio (talk) 23:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]