Commonwealth future blurred without Queen

By Sarah Mills and Estelle Shirbon
Updated September 17 2022 - 12:48pm, first published 12:47pm
The Commonwealth, which presents itself as a partnership of equals, mattered hugely to the Queen. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)
The Commonwealth, which presents itself as a partnership of equals, mattered hugely to the Queen. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

When she was a child growing up in Nigeria, Timie Ogunmola's father used to show her black-and-white pictures of his trip to London in 1953 to attend Queen Elizabeth's coronation as an official in what was then his country's colonial administration.

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