Why do people say "the Queen of England" on this page?

Question

She is the Queen of Scotland, Wales and N.I., not to mention many over seas territories, but I can understand not mentioning those as there are far too many to fit into a small sentence.

Scotland, Wales and N.I. (and Cornwall, why not, they seem to want to be independent) are great nations, not little playthings of England. I'm English myself, but it's just not fair.

So, for future use, it's Queen of the United Kingdom.

Answer 1

"Why do people say "the Queen of England" on this page?"

- Because it's one of the foolish misunderstandings (or American-isms) that is thought as being 100% true.

It's like people saying "Frankenstein" to refer to the monster, when in fact it was the name of the scientist.

Answer 2

How about we just call her "Queenie" and just leave it at that.  The Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Queen to the Commonwealth, and Defender of the Faith is just too complicated to use on a daily basis.

If Queenie is too informal, how about just Elizabeth Regina.   Hee, tittles... I just noticed how when you pronounce it properly it sounds like vigina.  Hee, hee.

Answer 3

She isn't the Queen *of* England, Scotland, Wales and Northern  Ireland, she's queen *in* England, Scotland, Wales and Norther Ireland inasmuch as she is queen *in* London, or in Leeds or any other place contained within the United Kingdom.

People assume that England covers all of the United Kingdom from a lack of attention to detail. England (and Wales) merged with Scotland to form Great Britain. Great Britain and Ireland merged to form the United Kingdom (after which the south of Ireland left). England, Scotland, Wales and (Northern) Ireland were/are constituent parts of the United Kingdom but they are no longer individual kingdoms and don't have kings or queens of those names.

Thank you, however, for bringing this up. She is Queen of the UK but not *of* the places contained within it.

Answer 4

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Answer 5

Because it's easier, and if anybody really wants to be correct, they can, but every one pretty much understand that it's kind of an abbreviation.

Besides, this is a basically American page, and we think of her as such, not by her complete official title, but by the one we generally use for short.