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Since 1559 British Monarchs have had the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
British monarchs have reigned over a country that has dominated and ruled the four corners of the world. Her empires have stretched from North America in the west, through Africa, the Indian sub-continent, and then onto Australia and New Zealand, to the tiny islands of the Bahamas. Like the Romans, they tried to impose their culture and way of life on those nations they conquered.
The monarchy is a 1200-year-old living symbol that has become entwined with a nations identity and culture. They have fought of invasions and have been saviors of nations. Their empires were so vast that Sir Walter Scot once wrote, “The sun never sets on the British Empire". Today the monarchy has become of the oldest living institutions the world has known.
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