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ELI5: I don’t understand this confusing plurality of ‘nation’/’nations’ when dealing with the power the new King has. What does it all mean?
I obviously understand England is a country, The United Kingdom is a country of countries, and then you have all those overseas territories and Crown dependencies, and then the Commonwealth. It’s all a massive solar system with seemingly/tacitly ‘England’ being the main de facto country (because it contains the capital, and the Royal family is culturally English (?)) then you have the remaining outer rings that get included but not really.
And all of it is a Nation, because King Charles is addressing the Nation.. Is he addressing just the United Kingdom in this televised address and then actually doing something else for the other countries and territories?
Seems like this duplicity of what is a country and what is his territory fundamentally seem like it’s one main country and everyone else is watching from the fence outside as if it’s their experience when it’s not the same level of cultural connection (as a British king living in England with an English accent has with the rest of the UK as opposed to the rest of the Commonwealth). How do the rest of the people from the ‘outer rings’ (no offense) see their new King?
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