Commonwealth

CAMILLA, Duchess of Cornwall, was spotted smiling as she arrived at Westminster Abbey to attend the Commonwealth Service today.

What Is The Commonwealth - It's an association of the United Kingdom and a number of countries that were former British colonies and dependencies.

UNITED WE STAND FOR FAITH, KING AND EMPIRE.

Desire for a peaceful world

Scandinavian Commonwealth Flag by ~Rarayn on deviantART

British Empire - 1920 AD

This is the British Empire’s flag.

St George is known by his emblem of a red cross on a white background, and is part of the British flag. Description from hallofnames.org.uk. I searched for this on bing.com/images

​NZ FLAG FACT NUMBER 30 Fifty-three independent nations belong to the British Commonwealth. Four of these countries have never had the Union Jack on their flag, forty-four have removed the Union...

Artist/Maker: Williams, Hugh Role in production: Artist Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom Date: n/a Accession Number: 1935.732 Medium / Material: ink/paper, printed Support: paper Technique: lithography Description A Union Jack flag is used to suggest a port with ships anchored upon the flags markings. Goods sit upon the red stripes of the flag ready to be loaded on the cargo ships and vehicles and figures move around the red and white markings. Each 'arm' of the flag is marked with…

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th century Europe.

Rex Woods - Britania

Oliver Cromwell, The conquest of Ireland (1649–53) resulted in 200,000 civilian deaths from famine & disease & 50,000 Irish were made slaves. Cromwell considered Catholics to be heretics, so the Irish conquest was a modern day Crusade for him. He died in 1658, & in 1661, he was exhumed from the grave & given a posthumous execution. His corpse was hung in chains at Tyburn, and he was dismembered, his remains thrown into a pit, w/his head displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall for 24…

The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 54 countries. It is often referred to as the British Commonwealth.