The Monarchy of Trinidad and Tobago was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Trinidad and Tobago from 1962 to 1976. Trinidad and Tobago shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.
The monarchy was abolished in 1976, when Trinidad and Tobago became a republic within the Commonwealth.
History
The monarchy of Trinidad and Tobago was created by the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act 1962 which transformed the British Crown Colony of Trinidad and Tobago into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago adopted a new constitution in 1976 which abolished the monarchy.
List of monarchs
Titles
Visits
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visited Trinidad and Tobago in 1966, then as Head of the Commonwealth in 1985 and 2009.
See also
- President of Trinidad and Tobago
- Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago
- Queen's Personal Trinidadian Flag