The Barbadian senate has passed the Referendum Bill, which provides for a referendum on whether the Caribbean nation should become a republic.
The date of the referendum has not been decided. If voters agree the British Liz Windsor will be replaced as head of state by a citizen of Barbados.
Barbados became independent of Britain in 1966 but has continued to accept the matriarch of Britain’s Windsor family as its head of state. Only members of the Windsor family are permitted to be head of state in Britain.