51. Looking for that Windsor feeling, minus the headache that being a modern British monarch has become? 52. Nominally its supreme executive powers rest with the British monarch. 53. New Zealand, along with some other former British colonies, retains the British monarch as head of state. 54. New Zealand is an independent country, but like other ex-colonies such as Australia and Canada, retains the British monarch as head of state. 55. New Zealand is an independent nation but, like other former British colonies such as Canada and Australia, retains the British monarch as head of state. 56. Prime Minister Paul Keating has promised to replace the British monarch with an Australian head of state and build closer ties with the booming economies of Asia. 57. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrived Monday for a three-day visit, the first ever by a British monarch. 58. Queen Elizabeth II ends the first visit to South Africa by a British monarch in half a century, welcoming the once-ostracized nation back to the Commonwealth. 59. Prince William arrives at Eton on Wednesday, the first future British monarch to attend the illustrious establishment. 60. Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. |