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There is no agreed national anthem of England but it is usually defaulted in the absence of agreement to be "God Save the King", the national anthem of the United Kingdom as a whole. In 2016 some MPs felt that England should have its own distinct anthem with the result that there have been discussions on the subject in the UK Parliament. [1]
"God Save the King" (alternatively "God Save the Queen" when the monarch is female) is the de facto national anthem of the United Kingdom, [6] one of two national anthems of New Zealand, [1] and the royal anthem of the Isle of Man, [7] Canada and some other Commonwealth realms. [2]
Song Year adopted Lyricist(s) Composer(s) Audio Anguilla "God Bless Anguilla" 1981 Unknown Bermuda "Hail to Bermuda" 1984 Bette Johns Cayman Islands "Beloved Isle Cayman" 1993 Leila Ross-Shier Falkland Islands "Song of the Falklands" 1930 Christopher Lanham Gibraltar "Gibraltar Anthem" 1994 Peter Emberley Montserrat "Motherland" 1995
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The song was selected as the national anthem by Subhas Chandra Bose while he was in Germany. On the occasion of the founding meeting of the German-Indian Society on 11 September 1942 in the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, "Jana Gana Mana" was played for the first time by the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra as the national anthem of India. [22]
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
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