Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON — At its height, the British Empire's rule oversaw 531 million people — over three continents spanning from North America ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II played a key role in keeping the Commonwealth alive. Her death marks the beginning of a new ...

It was days before Charles III was to be coronated in a pageantry-laden, millennium-old ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London. Some 4,700 miles away in Jamaica, one of 15 realms he nominally leads ...

Australia is writing to fellow Commonwealth realms to declare its support for removing Prince Andrew from the line of royal succession, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.Andrew’s arrest ...

PERTH, Australia – Commonwealth nations approved changes to the rules of succession to allow first-born daughters to inherit the British throne, Britain's prime minister David Cameron announced Friday ...

The King met today with members of the monarchy’s Commonwealth. Currently, there are 56 independent nations, mostly former British colonies, that are loosely members of the Commonwealth. The 14 ...

Former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, is currently eighth in line to the British throne after Princes William and Harry and their children, but there is mounting pressure for the UK ...

WSJ’s Shelby Holliday takes a look at which Commonwealth realms are talking about replacing the British monarch as head of state and the legal challenges they may face moving forward. Illustration: ...

Catholic officials from Commonwealth countries around the world have expressed their sorrow and offered their prayers in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth died Sept. 8 at Balmoral ...