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Why is Britain a queen and not a king?
Britain is a queen, not a king, because the current queen is not dead.

The British monarch is the head of state of Britain and its overseas territories. Now the male monarch is called the king, and lady sovereign is called the queen. The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II,/kloc-0 was confirmed on February 6, 952, and/kloc-0 was officially crowned on June 2, 953. He is the head of state of Britain and Commonwealth 15, and the supreme leader of the Anglican Church.

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Legislation in Britain, Sweden and Norway stipulates that male and female members of the royal family have exactly the same right to inherit the throne; In Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands, although female royal family members rank behind male royal family members with the same blood relationship in the order of succession to the throne (for example, elder sister ranks behind younger brother), they already have the right to inherit the throne beyond reproach.

The Queen of England is not only the queen of Britain, but also the queens of Canada, Australia, New Zealand (the king of Britain is also the head of the Cook Islands), Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.