Editing God Save the King (section)

===Rhodesia===
When [[Rhodesia]] issued its [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence|Unilateral Declaration of Independence]] from the UK on 11 November 1965, it did so while still maintaining loyalty to Queen Elizabeth II as the [[Queen of Rhodesia|Rhodesian head of state]], despite the non-recognition of the Rhodesian government by the United Kingdom and the United Nations;<ref>{{cite book| title=A matter of weeks rather than months: The Impasse between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith: Sanctions, Aborted Settlements and War 1965–1969| last=Wood| first=J. R. T.|date=April 2008| location=Victoria, British Columbia| publisher=Trafford Publishing| isbn= 978-1-4251-4807-2| pages=1–8}}</ref> "God Save the Queen" therefore remained the Rhodesian national anthem. This was supposed to demonstrate the continued allegiance of the Rhodesian people to the monarch, but the retention in Rhodesia of a song so associated with the UK while the two countries were at loggerheads regarding its constitutional status caused Rhodesian state occasions to have "a faintly ironic tone", in the words of ''[[The Times]]''. Nevertheless, "God Save the Queen" remained Rhodesia's national anthem until March 1970, when the country formally declared itself a republic.<ref name=buch243>{{cite book| title=Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History| last=Buch| first=Esteban| others=Trans. Miller, Richard| publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]| location=Chicago, Illinois|date=May 2004| orig-year=1999| isbn=978-0-226-07824-3| page=243}}</ref> "[[Rise, O Voices of Rhodesia]]" was adopted in its stead in 1974 and remained in use until the country returned to the UK's control in December 1979.<ref>{{cite book| title=Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History| last=Buch| first=Esteban| others=Trans. Miller, Richard| publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]| location=Chicago, Illinois|date=May 2004| orig-year=1999| isbn=978-0-226-07824-3| page=247}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Pioneers, settlers, aliens, exiles: the decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe|last=Fisher|first=J. L.|publisher=[[Australian National University|ANU E Press]]|location=Canberra|year=2010|isbn=978-1-921666-14-8|page=60}}</ref> Since the internationally recognised independence of the Republic of [[Zimbabwe]] in April 1980, "God Save the King" has had no official status there.<ref>{{cite news| title=Zimbabwe athlete sings own anthem| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3906619.stm| publisher=BBC| location=London| date=19 July 2004| access-date=18 February 2012| archive-date=5 September 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905135423/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3906619.stm| url-status=live}}</ref>