Tamils - a Trans State Nation..

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C

Royal Titles Act, 1953
[see also Sri Lanka Constitution, 1972]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ALTERATION
OF THE ROYAL STYLE AND TITLES.
No. 22 of 1953.

[7th April, 1953.]

1. This Act may be cited as the Royal Titles Act

2. The assent of the Parliament of Ceylon is hereby given to the adoption by Her Majesty for use in relation to Ceylon of the style and titles set out in the Schedule to this Act, in lieu of the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown, and to the issue by Her for that purpose, at the request of the Prime Minister of Ceylon, of Her Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal.

SCHEDULE

(Style and titles referred to.)

" Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Ceylon and of Her other
Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. "