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Windward Islands (West Indies)

European colonies and dependencies

Federation of West Indies

independent states

pictures of the Windward Islands

surrounding region

1958: United Kingdom Caribbean Dependencies

On Apr. 22, Princess Margaret, acting as a special representative of Queen Elizabeth II, inaugurated the first British Caribbean federal government — The West Indies — authorized by act of the British Parliament in August 1956 and created by an Order of the Queen in Council in 1957. The union came...

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