It's really just a piece of common sense. I would add also, that "realm" and "republic" are not the only definitions present within the wider former British West Indies: there is also the presence of "British Overseas Territory" - being the Cayman Islands, the Turks & Caicos, Montserrat and Anguilla. Self-governing, but not independent "realms". A minor point, although it does signal again that not all regional histories and identities are cut from the same cloth. Anguilla, which I've visited, has an interesting history in recent decades of first having been lumped in with St. Kitts & Nevis in a tri-federal independent state and which the islanders didn't like at all. Hello Whitehall, we'd rather be with you. All of which is too complicated a narrative I suppose for some media intent on a very oversimplified narrative.
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>>My point there being, that the media inference I at least have noticed that the Cambridges/Wessexes are somehow on a mission to forestall Caribbean realms becoming republics is, well, just a media spin or speculation. They go where they are invited...>>
Thank you for making that point.