Monarchy of Ghana

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Monarchy of Ghana
Former Monarchy


Coat of Arms of Ghana


Queen Elizabeth II of Ghana

First monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Last monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Style	Her Majesty
Official residence	Buckingham Palace
Appointer	Hereditary
Monarchy began	6 March 1957
Monarchy ended	1 July 1960

The Monarchy of Ghana (the Ghanaian monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Ghana from 1957 to 1960. Ghana shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Ghana. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.

The monarchy was abolished in 1 July 1960, when Ghana became a republic within the Commonwealth.

History

The Monarchy of Ghana was created by the Ghana Independence Act 1957 which transformed the British Crown Colony of the Gold Coast into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Ghana. Following a referendum on the subject, Ghana adopted a new constitution in 1960 which abolished the monarchy.

List of Ghanaian Monarchs

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Monarch From	Monarch Until	Relationship with Predecessor(s)
House of Windsor
	Queen Elizabeth II	21 April 1926		6 March 1957	1 July 1960	None (position ceded)

List of Ghanaian Consorts

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Consort From	Consort Until	Relationship with Monarch
	Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921		6 March 1957	1 July 1960	Husband of Queen Elizabeth II

Titles

Titles
Elizabeth II 6 March 1957 – 27 July 1957 By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith 27 July 1957 – 1 July 1960 By the Grace of God, Queen of Ghana and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth

Visits

References

v t e Commonwealth realms and Dominions

Current	Antigua and Barbuda (Monarchy) Australia (Monarchy) Bahamas (Monarchy) Barbados (Monarchy) Belize (Monarchy) Canada (Monarchy) Grenada (Monarchy) Jamaica (Monarchy) Realm of New Zealand Cook Islands New Zealand Niue Papua New Guinea (Monarchy) St. Kitts and Nevis (Monarchy) St. Lucia (Monarchy) St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Monarchy) Solomon Islands (Monarchy) Tuvalu (Monarchy) United Kingdom (Monarchy)

Former	Ceylon (Monarchy) Fiji (Monarchy) The Gambia (Monarchy) Ghana (Monarchy) Guyana (Monarchy) India¹ (Monarchy) Ireland¹ (Monarchy) Kenya (Monarchy) Malawi (Monarchy) Malta (Monarchy) Mauritius (Monarchy) Newfoundland² Nigeria (Monarchy) Pakistan (Monarchy) Rhodesia³ Sierra Leone (Monarchy) South Africa (Monarchy) Tanganyika (Monarchy) Trinidad and Tobago (Monarchy) Uganda (Monarchy)

¹ Dominion, became republic before adoption of the term "realm" ² Dominion, never ratified Statute of Westminster 1931, London-based external government 1934–1949, annexed by Canada in 1949 ³ Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence as a realm in 1965, but this was not recognised internationally. Declared itself a republic in 1970.

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