Editing House of Windsor (section)

==States reigned over==
At the creation of the House of Windsor, its head reigned over the [[British Empire]]. Following the end of the First World War, however, shifts took place that saw the emergence of the [[Dominion]]s of the [[British Commonwealth]] as independent states. The shift was recognised in the [[Balfour Declaration of 1926]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/resources/transcripts/cth11_doc_1926.pdf|title=Clause II}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Balfour-Report|title=Balfour Report &#124; United Kingdom [1926]|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> the [[Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/4/enacted|title=Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927}}</ref><ref>{{citation|work=Albert Edmond Hogan, Isabell Gladys Powell, Harold Plaskitt, D.M. Glew|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vNIAAAAIAAJ|title=The Government of Great Britain and the Dominions and Colonies|year=1939|publisher=University tutorial Press Limited|pages=238}}</ref> and the [[Statute of Westminster 1931]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1931/4/pdfs/ukpga_19310004_en.pdf|title=''Statute of Westminster, 1931'', 22 Geo. V, c. 4, s. 4.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Statute-of-Westminster|title=Statute of Westminster &#124; United Kingdom [1931]|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> The Windsors became recognised as the royal family of multiple independent countries, a number that shifted over the decades, as some Dominions became republics and Crown colonies became realms, republics, or monarchies under a different sovereign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Commonwealthmembers/MembersoftheCommonwealth.aspx|title=The Monarchy Today > Queen and Commonwealth > Commonwealth Members|date=29 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229041728/https://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Commonwealthmembers/MembersoftheCommonwealth.aspx|archive-date=29 February 2012}}</ref> Since 1949, three monarchs of the House of Windsor, [[George VI]], [[Elizabeth II]] and [[Charles III]], have also been [[Head of the Commonwealth|Head]] of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], comprising most parts of the former British Empire and some states that were never part of it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royal.uk/commonwealth|title=Commonwealth (general)|date=11 March 2016|website=The Royal Family}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thecommonwealth.org/london-declaration|title=London Declaration|date=16 May 2019|website=The Commonwealth|access-date=25 July 2021|archive-date=4 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704130811/https://thecommonwealth.org/london-declaration|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=Queen of the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5y9LDwAAQBAJ|date=2018|first1=Robert|last1=Hardman|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1473549647}}{{page needed|date=July 2021}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Country
! Dates
|-
| [[Antigua and Barbuda]]
| 1981–present
|-
| [[Australia]]
| 1917–present
|-
| [[Bahamas]]
| 1973–present
|-
| [[Barbados]]
| 1966–2021
|-
| [[Belize]]
| 1981–present
|-
| [[Canada]]
| 1917–present
|-
| [[Ceylon]]
| 1948–1972
|-
| [[Fiji]]
| 1970–1987
|-
| [[The Gambia]]
| 1965–1970
|-
| [[Ghana]]
| 1957–1960
|-
| [[Grenada]]
| 1974–present
|-
| [[Guyana]]
| 1966–1970
|-
| [[India]]
| 1947–1950
|-
| [[Irish Free State]]
| 1922–1936
|-
| [[Jamaica]]
| 1962–present
|-
| [[Malawi]]
| 1964–1966
|-
| [[Malta]]
| 1964–1974
|-
| [[Mauritius]]
| 1968–1992
|-
| [[New Zealand]]
| 1917–present
|-
| [[Nigeria]]
| 1960–1963
|-
| [[Dominion of Pakistan]]
| 1947–1956
|-
| [[Papua New Guinea]]
| 1975–present
|-
| [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]]
| 1983–present
|-
| [[Saint Lucia]]
| 1979–present
|-
| [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]
| 1979–present
|-
| [[Sierra Leone]]
| 1961–1971
|-
| [[Solomon Islands]]
| 1978–present
|-
| [[South Africa]]
| 1917–1961
|-
| [[Tanganyika (1961–1964)|Tanganyika]]
| 1961–1962
|-
| [[Trinidad and Tobago]]
| 1962–1976
|-
| [[Tuvalu]]
| 1978–present
|-
| [[Uganda]]
| 1962–1963
|-
| [[United Kingdom]]
| 1917–present
|}