Queen Elizabeth II has died

- She ruled for 30% of the time since the American Revolution

- She oversaw the largest reduction of landholdings of any empire in the history of the world. Notable because it was also one of the most peaceful transitions in history -- Australia, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Egypt, etc.

- She oversaw the loss of Sterling the world reserve currency and the rise of another (the USD, EU).

>>citili+Tj
She has been Queen of Canada for 45% of Canada's existence as an independent nation. Wild.

>>Tsarbo+jl
I'm curious if they'll be splitting the monarchy between the children or keeping it consistent. Government could actually change quite a bit at this point across much of the west.

>>citili+dn
Who is "they" in this case?

Technically there is no one who could authorize that split except the current monarch. I'd imagine things will continue just as they were

>>bena+rq
I'm not sure what GP is speculating about either but as for succession, AFAIK sovereign countries in the commonwealth have their own rules. The head of state of Canada was not the Queen of England, it was the Queen of Canada, and theoretically nothing would stop the heir to those positions being different. In fact this was momentarily a topic of conversation in Canadian news outlets as the UK was talking about changing the rules of succession to be gender neutral and whether that would make for different heirs if the rest of commonwealth didn't change their rules in step. In practice that was moot since Prince William's firstborn was male.

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