Monarchy of Mauritius

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Monarchy of Mauritius
Former Monarchy


Coat of Arms of Mauritius


Queen Elizabeth II of Mauritius

First monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Last monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Style	Her Majesty
Official residence	Buckingham Palace
Appointer	Hereditary
Monarchy began	12 March 1968
Monarchy ended	12 March 1992

The Monarchy of Mauritius (the Mauritian monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of the Mauritius from 1968 to 1992. Mauritius shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Mauritius. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.

The monarchy was abolished in 1992, when Mauritius became a republic within the Commonwealth. To date, this is the most recent Commonwealth realm to become a republic.

History

The Monarch of Mauritius was created by the Mauritius Independence Act 1968 which transformed the British Crown Colony of Mauritius into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Mauritius. Mauritius adopted a new constitution in 1992 which abolished the monarchy.

List of Mauritian Monarchs

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Monarch From	Monarch Until	Relationship with Predecessor(s)
House of Windsor
	Queen Elizabeth II	21 April 1926		12 March 1968	12 March 1992	None (position ceded)

List of Mauritian Consorts

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Consort From	Consort Until	Relationship with Monarch
	Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921		12 March 1968	12 March 1992	Husband of Queen Elizabeth II

Titles

Titles
Elizabeth II 12 March 1968 – 15 April 1968 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 15 April 1968 – 12 March 1992 By the Grace of God, Queen of Mauritius and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth

Visits

References

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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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