> The whole "Queen of England" thing comes from some USians (and others) who use "England" as a synonym for "the UK". Pretty sure its a common informal holdove

> The whole "Queen of England" thing comes from some USians (and others) who use "England" as a synonym for "the UK". Pretty sure its a common informal holdover of a correct title from pre-1707 that has also seen at least some use as a subsidiary reference in formal documents of the governments of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and/or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the period after it was no longer the correct formal title (and, particularly, at least, the second of those three, as an example has been provided elsewhere in the thread.)