I didn't forget SnakeEyes, I was just including all the rest of UK besides dealing with your original point about Canada.

If I remember rightly she doesn't appear on all Canadian banknotes (whereas she does here) but I am amazed that you say some Canadians don't realise her relationship to Canada and I seem to remember she does appear on some banknotes.

Mind you when I was there in 2000 there was a news item about many Canadians not being able to sing O Canada! so you never know!

But the phrase "Queen (or King) of England" does seem a common misconception in some parts of the world. Some talk of England thinking it encompasses all of the UK. Of course it is the most populous and some would say "dominant" country and London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom as a whole.

She is Queen of an amazing amount of countries and territories, I can't list them all offhand. She is still a figure of importance in those former countries of the British Empire which are now republics as if they are in the Commonwealth she is still, head of that.

And I can't help suspecting that she still has a popularity amongst quite a few denizens of certain rebellious colonies!