The 27-year-old Olympic, European and Commonwealth champion captured a breakaway win with a familiar crowd cheering him on in Hyde Park as he crossed the finish line in 50 minutes and 39 seconds.
While homophobic and transphobic vitriol from some politicians in Commonwealth countries often captures the media's attention, Commonwealth leaders from the prime minister of St Kitts and Nevis to the former president of Fiji have spoken out against discrimination and in favour of inclusivity.
It agreed to review "existing commonwealth institutions to adequately capture a national system".
The two men set out on Monday for a full day of campaigning across Illinois following a weekend in which Mr. Romney prevailed in Puerto Rico, winning more than 80 percent of the vote and capturing all of the commonwealth's 20 delegates.
The following month saw the Swedisch-Brandenburg-Transylvanian-Romanian-Cossack forces play cat and mouse with the Polish Lithuanian forces, moving about all of the commonwealth without any major engagements, except the capture of Brest by Charles X Gustav in May, and the sack of Warsaw by Rákóczi and Gustaf Otto Stenbock on 17 June.
Shona Robison told the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka that the Games had captured the imagination of young people.
Monday's event, for around 500 guests, was to include readings, music and poetry capturing the history of the site and acknowledging the British, Irish, Commonwealth and German soldiers who lost their lives at Mons.
Historian Dan Snow was to narrate the service, for about 500 guests including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, David Cameron, Gauck and King Philippe of Belgium, features readings, music and poetry capturing the history of the site and acknowledging the British, Irish, Commonwealth and German soldiers killed at Mons.
"The journalists were not incidental casualties in the fighting: they were captured then deliberately killed despite protesting their status," wrote deputy state coroner Dorelle Pinch, who recommended the commonwealth attorney general take action.
