Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have announced that King Charles III will be their head of state as well.
- King Charles III succeeded his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, to the British throne on September 10, 2022.
Commonwealth realm
- The Commonwealth realm is a group of 14 countries (not including the United Kingdom) that recognise the British monarch as their head of state — a position that is explicitly stated in the constitution and laws of some of these countries.
- The Commonwealth realm includes Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
- Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are all constitutional monarchies, with political systems that are oriented in a way that the new monarch of the UK would have become their head of state as part of the usual process.
Commonwealth
- This is a group of 56 member countries, the vast majority of which are former British colonies.
- They are mostly in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific.
- Three European nations are part of the Commonwealth: Cyprus, Malta, and of course, the UK itself.
- The 14 Commonwealth realm countries are part of the larger Commonwealth. Of the remaining 41 member states, 36 are republics — this group includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
- The other five — Brunei Darussalam, Lesotho, Malaysia, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and Tonga — have their own monarchs.
