Eli5; how are countries like Australia and New Zealand independent yet they still are under King Charles?
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Two countries having the same king is a little bit like two different companies having the same CEO.
They’re still completely different companies. They have different property. They have different workforces. They don’t have to ask each other for permission to do anything. But the same person fills the same important job.
The big difference with these countries is that the king is less important than a CEO of a company would be. He makes way less decisions than a CEO would. In fact, he’s really more like a brand ambassador, rather than anything else. (Well, no, really, he’s like an ambassador-ambassador. He’s a diplomatic figure.)
So how can different companies have the same brand ambassador? Because they want to. If they ever stop wanting to, they’ll just pick someone else for that role.
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