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:
“It’s simple: either you have discipline or you haven’t.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.””
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)