‘Why do we have a queen?’ Complex reactions in the Commonwealth.

The island nation of Barbados permanently retired the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom, the flag of British royalty, less than a year ago, when it dropped the queen as its head of state and declared itself a republic.

That didn’t stop Barbados from lowering its largest flag – an ultramarine, yellow, and black banner that flies at Garrison Savannah – to half mast over the weekend to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley shared her sympathies in a book placed out at the British High Commission office for citizens to share their sympathies.

But social worker Roshanna Trim won’t be signing her condolences.

Although she sympathizes with the queen’s family and those who mourn her loss on a human level, Ms. Trim says that