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Independent nations like Canada and Australia still share a monarch with Great Britain as do several other nations. Scotland even if it had voted for Independence from the UK would have retained Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as head of state.
Would there have been anyway for the US to reach independence from Britain in all practical terms but retain the Crown as its head of state?