Is Queen Elizabeth II a CITIZEN of each of her 16 countries?

Question

So the queen of england is also the queen of canada and australia and new zealand and bahamas etc. Is she also a CITIZEN of all of these countries? And does she have 16 passports?

Answer 1

Exactly. The Queen is head of state, and commander of te militaries in all her countries and territories. Parliaments and Prime Ministers, Governors General, civil servants, judges and so forth serve at her pleasure. While she needs no citizenship, she is holds the unique position of being a citizen of each country. She needs no passport as head of state. I believe there was a passport issued to her when she was a child (I recall a friend mentioning it was on display somewhere in Windsor).

Answer 2

Why not! it's her Domain

Answer 3

1.   She is a not the Queen of England.   England does not have a Queen.   She is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.   The last Queen of England was Anne (House of Stuart).   Since then there has been a Queen of Great Britain (the same Anne) and a Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Victoria).

Of course there are many other titles, including a number of other monarchical ones, which she also holds.

2. I have seen a documentary which mentioned the fact that she has no passport as she travels under Diplomatic privilege.   The Duke of Edinburgh has a UK passport.

Answer 4

Well, she ain't a citizen of my country so I really get mad when she sticks her hand in my Excedrin bottle.

In the future we will have to have some of the supplies the barbarians are walking off with called up out of locusts in Iran or bunkers in White Russia (they could be shipped to Europe overland) but if we want some Excedrin or Panadol, just go to Buckingham palace and ask to speak to the "asprin steward."

?? The fuel you are using for frivolous trips around the world will be used up, maybe real soon.

Answer 5

She has just pose!

Answer 6

In a sense yes, she technically the first citizen of each.

Answer 7

No, because her countries have SUBJECTS...not citizens.

She can't be subject to herself.

Answer 8

As titular head of state, she is by definition a citizen, even if she never uses that citizenship except when actually acting as head of state of that particular country.

No source. But it is common knowledge (if notcommon sense), that those countries are currently independant and sovereign, not mere fiefs and possessions of the British empire. Now, find me an independant country that will allow a non citizen, a foreigner, to be their head of state? I guess you got it, those countries don't regard the queen as a dirty foreigner, so, even if they treat other british subjects as such, she has does have citizenship. BTW, your definition is that of a subject, not a citizen. It applies to the british, but much less to commonwealth citizens, who are citizens of their country first, subject to the queen (but not to the british crown) second.

Answer 9

She is, in effect- the Titleholder of each. She needs no passport. Parliaments of each exist by virtue of Her Assent. To be a citizen of any of these countries is to be at Her Royal Service.

The Magna Carta, which gave legal precedence to Parliament, was the result of a movement to serve the Crown, and not necessarily, the Royal Person. If not for King John still having Absolute Power, it could not have been binding. His signature and seal granted Parliament it's legal powers, and established many Orders to insure the rights of the Crown, and also it's Wearer.

Answer 10

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