Monarchy of Tanganyika

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Monarchy of Tanganyika
Former Monarchy


Coat of Arms of Tanganyika


Queen Elizabeth II of Tanganyika

First monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Last monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Style	Her Majesty
Official residence	Buckingham Palace
Appointer	Hereditary
Monarchy began	9 December 1961
Monarchy ended	9 December 1962

The Monarchy of Tanganyika (the Tanganyikan monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Tanganyika from 1961 to 1962. Nigeria shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Tanganyika. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.

The monarchy was abolished in 1962, when Tanganyika became a republic within the Commonwealth. Tanganyika merged with the Zanzibar in 1964 after the Zanzibari Revolution to form Tanzania.

History

The Monarchy of Tanganyika was created by the Tanganyika Independence Act 1961 which transformed the United Nations trust territory of Tanganyika into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Tanganyika. Tanganyika adopted a new constitution in 1962 which abolished the monarchy.

List of Tanganyikan Monarchs

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Monarch From	Monarch Until	Relationship with Predecessor(s)
House of Windsor
	Queen Elizabeth II	21 April 1926		9 December 1961	9 December 1962	None (position ceded)

List of Tanganyikan Consorts

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Consort From	Consort Until	Relationship with Monarch
	Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921		9 December 1961	9 December 1962	Husband of Queen Elizabeth II

Titles

Titles
Elizabeth II 9 December 1961 – 12 January 1962 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 12 January 1962 – 9 December 1962 By the Grace of God, Queen of Tanganyika and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth

Visits

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visited Tanzania as Head of the Commonwealth in 1979.

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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