monarch. It spread through English and later British colonisation and developed into an imperial crown, which rooted it in the legal lexicon of all 15...

A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...

the British Empire (such as Jamaica), in the UK the crown was never replaced as circulating currency by a five-shilling banknote. "Decimal" crowns were...

The Crown Dependencies are three offshore island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown: the Bailiwick...

The British half crown was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄8 of one pound, or two shillings and six pence (abbreviated "2/6", familiarly "two...

The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting...

The Crown is a historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan and produced...

British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the English and later British Crown to arise, and historical scholars have...

use crowns following the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD. A dig in a field at Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, in the 1950s revealed a bronze crown with...

a British crown colony and, from 1981 until its handover, a dependent territory of the United Kingdom. The colonial period began with the British occupation...

and diplomatic asset". The Crown also occupies a unique cultural role, serving as an unofficial brand ambassador for British interests and values abroad...

to as the Crown Colonies. At that time they were renamed British Dependent Territories. In 2002, the British Parliament passed the British Overseas Territories...

The Crown Colony of Sarawak was a British Crown colony on the island of Borneo, established in 1946, shortly after the dissolution of the British Military...

became British subjects. Natural-born subjects were considered to owe perpetual allegiance to the Crown, and could not voluntarily renounce British subject...

The Crown Colony of North Borneo was a Crown colony on the island of Borneo established in 1946 shortly after the dissolution of the British Military Administration...

the Island of Ceylon and its Dependencies from 1931 to 1948, was the British Crown colony of present-day Sri Lanka between 1796 and 4 February 1948. Initially...

its independence. Through a progressive sequence of regimes, the British imposed Crown Colony government on much of the area of West Africa which came...

transferred to the Crown. Under the British Raj (1858–1947), administrative boundaries were extended to include a few other British-administered regions...

1878 to 1914 as a British protectorate, from 1914 to 1925 as a unilaterally annexed military occupation, and from 1925 to 1960 as a Crown colony. Following...

the British Dominions beyond the Seas" after "Ireland". In general usage the monarch came to be called the King-Emperor, especially in the Crown's overseas...

In Canada, Crown corporations (French: Société de la Couronne) are government organizations with a mixture of commercial and public-policy objectives...

British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize...

Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories. Britain may also refer to: British Isles, an archipelago comprising Great Britain, Ireland...

A state crown is the working crown worn or used by a monarch on recurring state occasions such as when opening Parliament in Britain, as opposed to the...

Succession to the British throne is determined by descent, sex, legitimacy, and religion. Under common law, the Crown is inherited by a sovereign's children...

independence from France. The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown. In addition to the areas...

and the British Crown Dependencies. Most private airfields are not listed. The ICAO codes for airports in the United Kingdom (and its Crown Dependencies)...

a circlet or open crown. It is the only crown for a British king or queen to be made of platinum. The crown is decorated with about 2,800 diamonds, most...

would be established as a separate Crown colony on 3 May 1841 with Hobson as its governor. During the 19th century, Britain and the Russian Empire vied to...

The Crown Colony of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies (commonly known as the Crown Colony of Malta or simply Malta) was the British colony in the...