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Cynthia First, the British sovereign has no direct political power.
Currently, she's deceased, therefore, she cannot have any political power. Historically, when
your Queen Elizabeth took the crown in 1953, the Monarch ruled over 39 colonies and protectorates. The last British Colony was Hong Kong, where the transfer of sovereignty was passed to China in 1997.
As
the Crown,
your Queen Elizabeth retained the authority as Head of State in those colonies. She had the powers to appoint Prime ministers and governors, and also the power to remove them - a prerogative she executed in 1975 when she removed elected Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam from his position.
Your Queen also exerted authority through her influence as
The Crown.
The history of The United Kingdom and how the colonists robbed its colonies of precious resources and artifacts cannot be simply ignored as if it didn't happen. Even the Crown Jewels were stolen from the colonies. After the death of the malignant dictator/monarch, India has called for the return of the Kohinoor, one of the largest cut diamonds in the world - valued at $400 million. The diamond is currently set in the Crown of the Queen Mother. In addition to Kohinoor, there are other diamonds that were stolen by The British, such as The Great Star of Africa - the largest cut diamond in the world. Collectively, the value of the stolen Crown Jewels is between $10 and $12 billion.
Second, during her reign, the British fully "decolonized". This was a political and practical process, but -on what passed for your logic, she should gain huge credit for that.
No, Queen Elizabeth didn't just relinquish power over those colonies. Many of those colonies
fought for their independence. Ghana, for example, was the first Sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence. Shortly after WWII, the country was rife with riots and protests. During early 1948, several leaders from the Gold Coast (Ghana), inspired by Ghadhi's nonviolence movement, led protests in the city of Accra. They were arrested by the colonial authorities and held in prison for years. Ghana didn't gain its independence until 1957. Independence of African nations was the result of the Ghadhi inspired nonviolence movement - not Queen Elizabeth's goodwill.
To say that Queen Elizabeth should get credit for decolonization is like saying slavery ended in America because the Whites in the South gave up their slaves. The Monarch had little choice.
