Former British Empire
States which recognise the head of state of the United Kingdom as their own also use the appellation, appropriately modified to reflect the local situation.
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Famous quotes containing the words british and/or empire:
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)