Once a dependency of Jamaica, the Turks and Caicos Islands became a crown colony on Jamaican independence in 1962.

BBC: Turks and Caicos profile

In 1960, Britain granted independence to the crown colony of Cyprus.

CNN: Friday,

In 1808, Sierra Leone became a British crown colony.

CNN: Thursday,

When the king dies, Orumba satisfies his ambition for the crown by selling Oroonoko too, and the lovers end up in the British colony of Surinam, where Oroonoko leads a slave rebellion, is betrayed, imprisoned and finally killed.

ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford