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(commonly referred to as the british monarchy)
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*the monarchy of the united kingdom is the ‘constitutional monarchy of [the ‘united kingdom’ / its ‘dependencies’ / its ‘overseas territories’]*
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(the current monarch and head of state, “queen elizabeth II”, ascended the throne on the death of her father, “king george VI”, on ‘6 february 1952’)
(the monarch and his or her immediate family undertake various ‘official’, ‘ceremonial’, ‘diplomatic’, and ‘representational’ duties)
(as the monarchy is ‘constitutional’, the monarch is limited to ‘non-partisan’ functions such as ‘bestowing honours’ and appointing the ‘prime minister’)
(the monarch is, by tradition, commander-in-chief of the ‘British Armed Forces’)
(though the ultimate formal executive authority over the government of the ‘united kingdom’ is still by and through the monarch’s ‘royal prerogative’, these powers may only be used according to laws enacted in ‘parliament’ and, in practice, within the constraints of ‘convention’ and ‘precedent’)
(the ‘british monarchy’ traces its origins from the petty kingdoms of early medieval ‘scotland’ and ‘anglo-saxon england’, which consolidated into the kingdoms of ‘england’ and ‘scotland’ by the 10th century AD)
(in 1066, the last crowned anglo-saxon monarch, ‘harold godwinson’, was defeated and killed during the ‘norman conquest’ of ‘england’ and the english monarchy passed to the normans’ victorious leader, ‘william the conqueror’, and his descendants)
(from the 1080s, the lordships of ‘south wales’ were held by a succession of norman families inter-married with older welsh houses loyal to the english throne, with many lordships also held by the ‘english king’ in his own right)
(the process was completed in the 13th century when the north of wales’, as a principality, became a client state of the ‘english kingdom’, while magna carta began a process of reducing the english monarch’s political powers)
(from 1603, when the scottish monarch ‘James VI’ inherited the english throne as ‘James I’, both the ‘english’ and ‘scottish’ kingdoms were ruled by a single sovereign)
(from 1649 to 1660, the tradition of monarchy was broken by the republican ‘commonwealth of england’, which followed the ‘Wars of the Three Kingdoms’)
(the “Act of Settlement 1701” excluded “roman catholics”, or those who married “catholics”, from succession to the english throne)
(in 1707, the kingdoms of ‘england’ and ‘scotland’ were merged to create the ‘kingdom of great britain’, and in 1801, the ‘lingdom of ireland’ joined to create the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”)
(the ‘british monarch’ became nominal head of the vast ‘british empire’, which covered a quarter of the world’s surface at its greatest extent in 1921)
(in the early 1920s, five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the Union as the Irish Free State, and the Balfour Declaration recognised the evolution of the dominions of the empire into separate, self-governing countries within a ‘commonwealth of nations’)
(after the Second World War, the vast majority of British colonies and territories became independent, effectively bringing the ’empire’ to an end)
(‘George VI’ and his successor, ‘Elizabeth II’, adopted the title ‘Head of the Commonwealth’ as a symbol of the free association of its ‘independent member states’)
(the ‘united kingdom’ and fifteen other Commonwealth monarchies that share the same person as their monarch are called Commonwealth realms)
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(the terms british monarchy + british monarch are frequently still employed in reference to the shared individual and institution; however, each country is sovereign and independent of the others, and the monarch has a different, specific, and official national title and style for each realm)
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