A major Toronto sporting event just changed its name because the Queen died Toronto
The move follows the September 2022 accession of King Charles III to the British throne, reverting to a name the event last held during the reign of Kings George V, Edward VIII, and George VI from 1901 to 1952. Prior to the succession of Edward VII in 1901, the event was also known as The Queen's Plate.
But during the 70 years of Queen Elizabeth's reign over a shrinking British empire, we named a heck of a lot of things after the monarch, leaving many institutions forced to scramble to revise their identities to reflect the start of a new era for the monarchy.
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