Critics allege that the Commonwealth is a colonial relic, a neo-imperial conspiracy and nothing but ''a collection of not very important states brought together by accident of having been colonized by Britain''.
After the Second World War, many countries sought their independence. Soon after attaining independence in 1947, India declared that it wished to adopt a republican constitution, but also wanted to remain within the Commonwealth.
This was accepted in the London Declaration agreed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 1949, provided that India accepted King George VI as "the symbol of the free association of the independent Member Nations and as such Head of the Commonwealth".
Over the next two decades, British rule ended in many parts of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Pacific.
With a few exceptions (such as Myanmar, formerly known as Burma), the newly independent countries joined the Commonwealth and recognized King George VI and, following his death, Queen Elizabeth II, as Head of the Commonwealth. Source
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'UK monarch's costly display, disgusting'
The celebration marking Queen Elizabeth the second's diamond jubilee comes to an end. The four-day-celebrations - marking her 60th year on the throne - was widely covered by the mainstream media.Although the media gave a full coverage of the celebrations, they failed to show those who were protesting the royal family and what they called its non-democratic system.Press TV has conducted an interview with Stephen Lendman, writer and radio host from Chicago, to further talk over the issue.
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