Monarchy of Sierra Leone

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Monarchy of Sierra Leone
Former Monarchy


Coat of Arms of Sierra Leone


Queen Elizabeth II of Sierra Leone

First monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Last monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Style	Her Majesty
Official residence	Buckingham Palace
Appointer	Hereditary
Monarchy began	27 April 1961
Monarchy ended	19 April 1971

The Monarchy of Sierra Leone (the Sierra Leonean monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Sierra Leone from 1961 to 1971. Sierra Leone shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Sierra Leone. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.

The monarchy was abolished in 1971, when Sierra Leone became a republic within the Commonwealth.

History

The Monarchy of Sierra Leone was created by the Sierra Leone Independence Act 1961 which transformed the British Crown Colony of Sierra Leone into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone adopted a new constitution in 1971 which abolished the monarchy.

List of Sierra Leonean Monarchs

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Monarch From	Monarch Until	Relationship with Predecessor(s)
House of Windsor
	Queen Elizabeth II	21 April 1926		27 April 1961	19 April 1971	None (position ceded)

List of Sierra Leonean Consorts

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Consort From	Consort Until	Relationship with Monarch
	Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921		27 April 1961	19 April 1971	Husband of Queen Elizabeth II

Titles

Titles
Elizabeth II 27 April 1961 – 1961 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 1961 – 19 April 1971 By the Grace of God, Queen of Sierra Leone and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth

Visits

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visited Sierra Leone in 1961.

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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