The Monarchy of Uganda (the Ugandan monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of Uganda from 1962 to 1963. Uganda shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Uganda. The royal succession was governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701.
The monarchy was abolished in 9 October 1963, when Uganda became a republic within the Commonwealth. However, the new Ugandan state was deliberately not referred to as a republic, and the constituent native kingdoms (such as Buganda) continued in existence.
History
The monarch of Uganda was created by the Uganda Independence Act 1963 which transformed the Uganda Protectorate into the independent sovereign constitutional monarchy of Uganda. Uganda adopted a new constitution in 1963 which abolished the monarchy.
List of monarchs
Titles
Visits
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visited Uganda in 1954, then as Head of the Commonwealth in 2007.
See also
- President of Uganda
- Governor-General of Uganda