The full title of this article by Mark Duell (Daily Mail) is “Now Grenada drops oath of allegiance to King Charles as Commonwealth countries continue push to remove British monarchy as head of state.” Duell writes that the decision comes amid calls for reparations for slavery and admission of enduring inequities, as well as king’s removal as head of state of Caribbean country.
Grenada has dropped the oath of allegiance to King Charles III as Commonwealth countries continue to look at removing the British monarch as their sovereign. State officials on the island, commonly known as the ‘Spice Isle’, will no longer take the oath to the King or his successors and instead make it to Grenada itself.
The change was brought in last Friday as Caribbean nations marked Emancipation Day, the anniversary of slavery being abolished in the British Empire in 1834.
Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said in 2023 that he wanted the nation to become a republic and remove Britain’s monarch as its head of state.
The Constitution (Oath of Allegiance) (Amendment) (No. 1) Bill 2025 made the oath ‘Grenada’ instead of ‘His Majesty King Charles the Third, His Heirs and Successors’. This applies to the Governor-General, members of Grenada’s Houses of Parliament, ministers or parliamentary secretaries and any ‘citizen by marriage’ taking the oath.
The new law also states: ‘Where in any written law prescribing an oath there appear the words ‘our Sovereign Lord the King’, those words shall be deleted, and there shall be substituted therefor the words ‘the people of Grenada’.
Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, there has been a growth in calls from activists in Caribbean countries for the King’s removal as head of state. [. . .]
Advocates of the move claim the legacy of slavery and colonialism has resulted in or played a role in enduring inequities, amid growing calls for reparations to address past wrongs.
These have been rejected by Britain, but the removal of the monarchy as head of state is viewed as an issue for local people and politicians to decide. [. . .]
For full article, see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979139/Grenada-drops-oath-allegiance-King-Charles-Caribbean-countries.html
The full title of this article by Mark Duell (Daily Mail) is “Now Grenada drops oath of allegiance to King Charles as Commonwealth countries continue push to remove British monarchy as head of state.” Duell writes that the decision comes amid calls for reparations for slavery and admission of enduring inequities, as well as king’s
