The Monarchy of Ghana (the Ghanaian monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Ghana from 1957 to 1960. Ghana shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Ghana. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.
The monarchy was abolished in 1 July 1960, when Ghana became a republic within the Commonwealth.
History
The Monarchy of Ghana was created by the Ghana Independence Act 1957 which transformed the British Crown Colony of the Gold Coast into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Ghana. Following a referendum on the subject, Ghana adopted a new constitution in 1960 which abolished the monarchy.
List of monarchs
>Titles
Visits
- 1961 (9â€"20 November): as Head of the Commonwealth
- 1999 (7â€"9 November): as Head of the Commonwealth
See also
- President of Ghana
- Governor-General of Ghana