But you would be wrong to do so. The principle at work was that of the "Crown undivided". The various dominions of which the King of the UK of GB and NI was also sovereign were subsumed under a single united sovereignty unless the Dominion itself legislated otherwise.
Thus, for example, it was only with the passing of the Australian Act (1986) that Elizabeth II became the Queen of Australia. Many other of her realms have passed similar legislation so that we now have the principle of a "Crown divided" - Queen of Papua New Guinea, of Canada, of New Zealand, etc.
This was not the case when India remained a monarchy within the Commonwealth. India's monarch was the King of GB and NI.
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