Monarchy of Kenya

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Monarchy of Kenya
Former Monarchy


Coat of Arms of Kenya


Queen Elizabeth II of Kenya

First monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Last monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Style	Her Majesty
Official residence	Buckingham Palace
Appointer	Hereditary
Monarchy began	12 December 1963
Monarchy ended	12 December 1964

The Monarchy of Kenya (the Kenyan monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Kenya from 1963 to 1964. Kenya shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Kenya. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.

The monarchy was abolished in 1964, when Kenya became a republic within the Commonwealth.

History

The Monarchy of Kenya was created by the Kenya Independence Act 1963 which combined the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Kenya. Kenya adopted a new constitution in 1964 which abolished the monarchy.

List of Kenyan Monarchs

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Monarch From	Monarch Until	Relationship with Predecessor(s)
House of Windsor
	Queen Elizabeth II	21 April 1926		12 December 1963	12 December 1964	None (position ceded)

List of Kenyan Consorts

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Consort From	Consort Until	Relationship with Monarch
	Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921		12 December 1963	12 December 1964	Husband of Queen Elizabeth II

Titles

Titles
Elizabeth II 12 December 1963 – 1963/64 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 1963/64 – 12 December 1964 By the Grace of God, Queen of Kenya 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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