Monarchy of Guyana

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Monarchy of Guyana
Former Monarchy


Coat of Arms of Guyana


Queen Elizabeth II of Guyana

First monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Last monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Style	Her Majesty
Official residence	Buckingham Palace
Appointer	Hereditary
Monarchy began	26 May 1966
Monarchy ended	23 February 1970

The Monarchy of Guyana (the Guyanese monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Guyana from 1966 to 1970. Guyana shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Guyana. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.

The monarchy was abolished in 1970, when Guyana became a republic within the Commonwealth.

History

The Monarchy of Guyana was created by the Guyana Independence Act 1966 which transformed the British Crown Colony of British Guiana into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Guyana. Guyana adopted a new constitution in 1970 which abolished the monarchy.

List of Guyanese Monarchs

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Monarch From	Monarch Until	Relationship with Predecessor(s)
House of Windsor
	Queen Elizabeth II	21 April 1926		26 May 1966	23 February 1970	None (position ceded)

List of Guyanese Consorts

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Consort From	Consort Until	Relationship with Monarch
	Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921		26 May 1966	23 February 1970	Husband of Queen Elizabeth II

Titles

Titles
Elizabeth II 26 May 1966 – 18 June 1966 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 18 June 1966 - 23 February 1970 By the Grace of God, Queen of Guyana 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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