Queen Elizabeth II during her Jubilee tour in Jamaica, a Commonwealth country, in February 2022.Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images The Commonwealth was born out of the British Empire, ...

LONDON — At its height, the British Empire’s rule oversaw 531 million people — over three continents spanning from North America to Oceania. It was once said that the sun never set on the British ...

Thousands of athletes will attend, but the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will be a threadbare event. 2026 will signal the ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II set into motion a historic transition of power—not just in Great Britain but in 54 countries across the world that maintain ties to the royal family as members of the ...

Since Queen Elizabeth’s death, several Commonwealth Realms are reassessing their relationships with the monarchy. The Commonwealth of Nations is an international organization composed mainly of former ...

Britain is engulfed in a worldwide outpouring of love and admiration for Queen Elizabeth II but the challenges new King Charles faces have been bubbling under the surface for years. At the center is ...

Queen Elizabeth II has led a meeting with the same international youth organization which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle used last year to trigger a debate about the British Empire. The 95-year-old ...

Elizabeth II, the long-reigning British queen who buoyed a shrinking empire and an increasingly embattled monarchy, died on Thursday at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands, at age 96 ...

The major discussion at the past week’s session of the Imperial Conference (of the Dominions, at London) was that of Imperial Preference. In 1907, when the first Imperial Conference took place, it was ...

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday peacefully at home in Scotland after a remarkable 70-year reign. We cannot talk about the British monarchy without confronting the colonial horrors of this period.

Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ”Springville,” is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed ...