India is a president.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sponsored Columbus because Columbus told them that if they gave him the money to find another trade route to India he would spread Catholicism in India (king and queen of Spain were Catholic)
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The Gateway of India was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary.
India became independent in 1947. The monarch in the UK at the time was King George VI, the queen consort was Queen Elizabeth, formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon from Glamis, Scotland.
Indian independence was granted in 1947, when the Queen of England (i.e. the wife of the last King-Emperor) was Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
When Queen Isabella and her husband, the king, finally did let Christopher Columbus go on the voyage, Christopher Columbus promised spices and jewels from "India" to assure the Queen and the King to not object him of his voyage to "India."
Columbus's two directions from the king and queen are to visit India and determine the best way to convert its people to Christianity, and to travel on a previously untried western route to reach India.
England hasn't had an exclusive king for about 400 years. In 1945, King George VI (the father of the present queen) was the ruling monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (which includes England). He was also king of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and many other countries which were part of the British Empire.
After the King and Queen of Spain got rid of the Moors from Spain, they were interested in a western route to India because it was difficult going through the Middle East with the Muslims.
After the King and Queen of Spain got rid of the Moors from Spain, they were interested in a western route to India because it was difficult going through the Middle East with the Muslims.
George V and his wife Queen Mary of Teck They also had the title of Emperor and Empress of India which people would refer them as "Their Imperial Majesties the King-Emperor and the Queen-Emperess.