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Abdication in the case of a British royal monarch has been rare. Still, King Charles III's recent cancer diagnosis has stirred up questions regarding the sovereign's position as head of state. The ...
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
(The monarch—now King Charles—is the head of the Church of England.) She never abdicated, and reigned for over 70 years until her death in September 2022 at her beloved Balmoral Castle.
King Charles IV (Emperor Charles I of Austria) was deposed in 1918 when a republic was established. Following the restoration of the Hungarian monarchy in 1920, he was refused permission to "assume residency and constitutional functions" in the Kingdom by the Regent Miklós Horthy .
Charles III became King of the United Kingdom and of 14 other Commonwealth realms upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, on 8 September 2022.Royal succession in the realms occurs immediately upon the death of the reigning monarch.
For centuries, English official public documents have been dated according to the regnal years of the ruling monarch.Traditionally, parliamentary statutes are referenced by regnal year, e.g. the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 is officially referenced as "10 Ann. c. 6" (read as "the sixth chapter of the statute of the parliamentary session that sat in the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne").
The royal family is having a rough time at the moment between King Charles and Kate Middleton's simultaneous cancer diagnoses, Prince William taking time off to focus on his family, and a greatly ...