Chris Bennett on the contrary the TERM Commonwealth Realm is a complete fantasy  This whole Wikipedia article is a complete perversion of the Royal Styles and Titles Act    An Act to provide for an alteration of the Royal Style and Titles      Eliz  c    th March    WHEREAS it is expedient that the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown should be altered so as to reflect more clearly the existing constitutional relations of the members of the Commonwealth to one another and their recognition of the Crown as the symbol of their free association and of the Sovereign as the Head of the Commonwealth  And whereas it was agreed between representatives of Her Majestys Governments in the United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand the Union of South Africa Pakistan and Ceylon assembled in London in the month of December nineteen hundred and fiftytwo that there is need for an alteration thereof which whilst permitting of the use in relation to each of those countries of a form suiting its particular circumstances would retain a substantial element common to all   Be it therefore enacted by the Queens most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows    The assent of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is hereby given to the adoption by Her Majesty for use in relation to  the United Kingdom and all other the territories for whose foreign  relations Her Government in the United Kingdom is responsible of such style and titles as Her Majesty may think fit having regard to the said agreement in lieu of the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown and to the issue by Her for that purpose of Her Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm    This Act may be cited as the Royal Titles Act      ROYAL PROCLAMATION reciting the altered Style and Titles of the Crown  London th May   British and Foreign State Papers vol  p  citing the Eleventh Supplement of The London Gazette of th May    BY THE QUEEN  A PROCLAMATION ELIZABETH R    WHEREAS there has been passed in the present Session of Parliament the Royal Titles Act     Eliz  c which Act recites that it is expedient that the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown should be altered so as to reflect more clearly the existing constitutional relations of the members of the Commonwealth to one another and their recognition of the Crown as the symbol of their free association and of the Sovereign as the Head of the Commonwealth and which Act also recites that it was agreed between representatives of Her Majestys Governments in the United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand the Union of South Africa Pakistan and Ceylon assembled in London in the month of December nineteen hundred and fiftytwo that there is need for an alteration thereof which whilst permitting of the use in relation to each of those countries of a form suiting its particular circumstances would retain a substantial element common to all    And Whereas by the said Act the assent of the Parliament of the United Kingdom was given to the adoption by Us for use in relation to the United Kingdom and all other the territories for whose foreign relations Our Government in the United Kingdom is responsible of such style and titles as We may think fit having regard to the said agreement in lieu of the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown and to the issue by Us for that purpose of Our Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm  We have thought fit and We do hereby appoint and declare by and with the advice of Our Privy Council that so far as conveniently may be on all occasions and in all instruments wherein Our style and titles are used in relation to all or any one or more of the following that is to say the United Kingdom and all other the territories for whose foreign relations Our Government in the United Kingdom is responsible Our style and titles shall henceforth be accepted taken and used as the same are set forth in manner and form following that is to say the same shall be expressed in the English tongue by these words  NEWL