The Monarchy of the Gambia (the Gambian monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of The Gambia from 1965 to 1970. The Gambia shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The Monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of the Gambia. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.
The monarchy was abolished on 24 April 1970, when the Gambia became a republic within the Commonwealth.
History
The Monarch of the Gambia was created by the Gambia Independence Act 1964 which unified the British Crown Colony and Protectorate of the Gambia into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of the Gambia. After two referenda on the issue; the first unsuccessful and the second successful, the Gambia adopted a new constitution in 1970 which abolished the monarchy.
List of monarchs
Titles
Visits
- 1961 (3â€"5 December): as Queen of the United Kingdom
See also
- President of the Gambia
- Governor-General of the Gambia