• Legislation in the 15 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is head of state would also need amending.

    BBC: Review could see Prince William's daughter as Queen

  • She was joined by more than 70 guests including representatives of all 54 Commonwealth countries.

    BBC: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono welcomed on state visit to UK

  • The piece will bring together 100 young people and emerging artists from seven Commonwealth countries.

    BBC: Alexander McCall Smith

  • It will also be shown in Commonwealth countries and on the British Forces Broadcasting Service.

    BBC: Royals celebrate Christmas at Sandringham

  • To reflect scouting's worldwide appeal, youngsters from Commonwealth countries were also on parade.

    BBC: Queen celebrates jubilee birthday

  • Established in 1969, the Man Booker is the best-known fiction prize for English-language authors from Commonwealth countries and Ireland.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • It will be available on the Royal Channel on the YouTube website and will also be shown in Commonwealth countries.

    BBC: Queen's Christmas message hails Olympic stars

  • Britain has announced plans for a multi-million-dollar fund to ensure every child in the Commonwealth countries receives a basic education.

    BBC: Britain announced Commonwealth education fund

  • A-levels among international schools and Commonwealth countries keen on their reputation for quality and the consistency conferred by external marking.

    ECONOMIST: Qualifications: Testing times | The

  • The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will spend time with athletes from a broad cross section of Commonwealth countries.

    BBC: Security at Delhi 2010

  • Exactly how many is not known, but some historians say Shanghai saved more Jews from the Nazi Holocaust than all Commonwealth countries combined.

    CNN: The Ghosts of Shanghai

  • One third of Commonwealth countries have yet to achieve universal primary education and gender parity, and 27 million Commonwealth children do not currently receive schooling.

    UNESCO: Seminar on Education and Violent Conflict

  • That means that certain Commonwealth countries of course can produce an Archbishop and no doubt a number will be considered when my job is on offer.

    BBC: News Online

  • The monarch is also head of the armed forces, supreme governor of the Church of England, head of state of the UK and 15 other Commonwealth countries.

    BBC: Kate and William: Duchess pregnant, palace says

  • Latin American countries claim their share as southern neighbours, while the special relationship with the Commonwealth countries of the Caribbean makes them the largest recipients per person.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • The trust estimates that more than 130, 000 poor children were shipped to Commonwealth countries for a "better life" - at least 4, 500 of those after World War II.

    BBC: Honour for founder of Child Migrants Trust

  • Ian Bretman of the Fairtrade Foundation thinks there are other reasons too why British shoppers are buying into fair trade goods, such as historic trading links with Commonwealth countries.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | Fair play to us

  • The VIP guest list was headed by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon, High Commissioners of eight Commonwealth countries, Chief Scout George Purdy, Scout Association vice-president Major General Michael Walsh and Welsh Scout Council president William Legge-Bourke.

    BBC: Queen celebrates jubilee birthday

  • John Denham, an influential former minister, thinks Britain needs a national story that includes an account of its global role in the 19th century, to explain why migrants from Commonwealth countries belong alongside Anglo-Saxons.

    ECONOMIST: An old approach to history is new again

  • In some Commonwealth countries, homosexual acts are illegal.

    BBC: Recovering Queen signs Commonwealth charter

  • And some non-Commonwealth countries are now surprisingly open.

    ECONOMIST: Law and globalisation

  • "We have committed ourselves to normalising relations between Zimbabwe and those countries which disengaged their relationship and this is primarily the EU, the United Kingdom, the United States and the white Commonwealth countries, " he said.

    BBC: Zimbabwe 'to re-engage with West'

  • One of these is the reluctance of the existing Commonwealth countries to have anything to do with Britain qua colonial power, to seem to condone colonialism by accepting a colony as a partner in their company.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • Last year, however, the British government agreed with 15 other commonwealth countries that males should no longer be given priority and changed the rules of succession so that the first-born child of either gender could one day take the throne.

    FORBES: Kate Middleton Is Pregnant: Will She Give Birth To The Next Queen Of England?

  • It might have been far easier to have overcome this difficulty if the original proposals for a Commonwealth civil service had been imaginatively carried out if the Commonwealth countries had been prepared to send more technicians and administrators of their own to serve the colonies in their transitional stages.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • But the government, in the form of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is likely to resist any substantive amendments, because the terms of the bill have had to be worked out in close collaboration with the other Commonwealth countries who have the Queen as their head of state.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Finally the PM has delivered his message along with members of the Commonwealth and developing countries.

    BBC: Global economy: Britain out of Europe

  • We also make a stab at the sport of cricket, so popular in Commonwealth Asia-Pacific countries.

    FORBES: Blue-Chip Investment

  • But most of these nations opted to join the Commonwealth, a club of countries all tied through history to the UK and the monarchy.

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  • That's a critical question because some African countries within the Commonwealth - whose observers are on the ground - have already said that as far as their concerned, the election was legitimate and others have even used the phrase - free and fair.

    BBC: Six forum: BBC correspondent Rageh Omaar

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