1.   At their height in World War II, there were more than a quarter of a million Gurkhas fighting for the British crown, in Asia and in Europe.

2.   Circumstances in the nascent United States, liberated for less than a decade from the British crown, were hardly united.

3.   Elizabeth wears the British crown, a symbol of colonialism.

4.   Hong Kong, for another year anyway, has the British crown backing contracts and British-based securities laws protecting stock bets.

5.   In London, its four elected members of Parliament refuse to take their seats because they are required to pledge allegiance to the British crown.

6.   It criticized the British crown.

7.   It also imposed an oath of allegiance to the British crown.

8.   The party, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, refuses to pledge allegiance to the British crown, a requirement for occupying seats in the Commons.

9.   They are called loyalists because they are loyal to the British crown, self-appointed protectors of the Protestant people in Northern Ireland.

10.   They experienced the heavy hand of the British crown, and saw the right of protest as a vital bulwark against injustice and tyranny.