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Old 01-06-2017, 08:01 PM   #121
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Technically there was no India until the British created it
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Queen of Canada is the correct term. Our head of state is the Queen of Canada who is also the queen of England, Scotland etc. She happens to live in Great Britain.
For what it's worth, in Canada she's officially:

Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith

Bit of a grammatical mess, isn't that? Key words all in there I suppose.
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Technically there was no India until the British created it
Couldn't the same be said for Can/USA?
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Couldn't the same be said for Can/USA?
Well we didn't create the US, that would be those traitorous rebels.
India was not a country, it was a vast number of principalities and minor kingdoms until the British consolidated them over 100 years or so.
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