The Queen has highlighted respect and understanding between nations as the key to peace in her annual message to the Commonwealth.
The Queen’s address to 2.4 billion citizens promotes this year’s Commonwealth Day theme of “a peace-building Commonwealth”.
With division over Brexit in the UK and instability around the world, the theme seeks to reaffirm the Commonwealth’s charter principle that “international peace and security, sustainable economic growth and development and the rule of law are essential to the progress and prosperity of all”.