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Originally Posted by dalem
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I am woefully ignorant of the period. What status does/did a Dominion have vs. a colony? How could that have affected succession?
-dale
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Using Canada as the example, basically an independent country with the Crown still the head of state and the Foreign Office having the final but not the most important say in Foreign matters.
Our armies are our own and we could and did told Kitchener to take a hike when he wanted to absorb Canadian regiments into the British Army.
As a Dominion, the Governor General is decided within the country and not in London. The succession to the Crown is also dependent on acceptance by the Dominion. Canada was not going to accept Edward as King and would've refused to accept him as King of Canada.