An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed by a subject or a citizen to his / her state or sovereign.

The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the six other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom.

As Australia shares its monarch equally with fifteen other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and the sovereign lives predominantly outside New South Wales ' borders, the governor's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on his or her behalf, acting within the principles of parliamentary democracy and responsible government as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and as a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power.

Her official title was ' king ' rather than ' queen ', reflecting that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort.

: The Court the East India Company you say, are ruffled by my having caused the Maharajah to cede to the Queen the Koh-i-noor ; while the ' Daily News ' and my Lord Ellenborough of India, 1841-44 are indignant because I did not confiscate everything to her Majesty ... motive was simply this: that it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift — which is always a favour — by any joint-stock company among her subjects.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was sovereign of Malta, and a Governor-General exercised executive authority on her behalf, while the actual direction and control of the government and the nation's affairs were in the hands of the cabinet under the leadership of a Maltese prime minister.

The Polish nobles finally accepted Mary as their future sovereign and paid homage to her in 1379.

Nicholas I Garay defending his sovereign Mary and her mother Elizabeth from the Croatians.

" Either the sovereign or his or her viceroy may therefore oppose the prime minister's will in extreme, crisis situations.

Soon her enemy and cousin, the " crafty and ambitious " Charles of Durazzo, representing the Sicilian Angevin line, was made sovereign over the Kingdom of Naples on 1 June 1381 ), and was crowned by Urban.

Thus the courts had no power to compel the sovereign to be bound by the courts, as they were created by the sovereign for the protection of his or her subjects.

The head of Her Majesty's Government ; the Prime Minister, also has weekly meetings with the sovereign, where she may express her feelings, warn, or advise the Prime Minister in the Governments work.

The preamble outlines the party's goal: " As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty ; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.

Since the British sovereign is a constitutional monarch, he or she abides by the advice of his or her ministers, except when executing reserve powers in times of crisis.

In the UK, the sovereign holds confidential weekly meetings with the Prime Minister to discuss governmental policy and to offer her opinions and advice on issues of the day.

The daughter, Rusudan, was born 1195 and would succeed her brother as a sovereign of Georgia.

As the sovereign is shared equally with 15 other independent countries in a form of personal union, as well as with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister only, appoints the governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

The sovereign will also hold an audience with the appointee and will at that time induct both the governor general-designate and his or her spouse into the Order of Canada as Companions, as well as appointing the former as a Commander of both the Order of Military Merit and the Order of Merit of the Police Forces ( should either person not have already received either of those honours ).

Thereafter, in accordance with the Statute of Westminster 1931, the appointment was made by the sovereign with the direction of his or her Canadian ministers only.

The 1851 marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and German-Polish noblewoman Countess Julia von Hauke ( created Princess of Battenberg ), provided a sovereign prince of Bulgaria, and queen-consorts for Spain and Sweden, as well as ( through female descent ) the consort of the current Queen of the United Kingdom.

Modern scholars, however, have theorized that by assuming the typical symbols of pharaonic power, Hatshepsut was asserting her claim to be the sovereign rather than a " King's Great Wife " or queen consort.

Born in Turin, Thomas Francis was the youngest of the five legitimate sons of the sovereign Duke Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy by his consort Catherine Micaela of Spain, a daughter of King Philip II of Spain and the French princess Elizabeth of Valois.

Born in Turin, Thomas was the youngest of the five legitimate sons of the sovereign Duke Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy by his consort Catherine Micaela of Spain, a daughter of King Philip II of Spain and the French princess Elizabeth of Valois.

Where some title other than that of king is held by the sovereign, his wife is referred to by the feminine equivalent, such as princess consort or empress consort.

However, Clarence House has announced that when the present Prince of Wales becomes the sovereign of the United Kingdom, his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, will have the title Her Royal Highness The Princess Consort rather than Her Majesty The Queen as used by previous wives of kings ( see princess consort ).

If the sovereign is male, then his wife, the queen consort, is first in the order of precedence for women.

It was generally not accepted for a female to succeed to the throne as a sovereign regnant in her own right, rather than playing the role of a sovereign's consort or regent for a sovereign who was still a minor in age, so that in history of China there has only been one reigning empress, the Empress Wu, whose reign punctuated the Tang Dynasty.

Offences constituting high treason include plotting the murder of the sovereign ; having sexual intercourse with the sovereign's consort, with the sovereign's eldest unmarried daughter, or with the wife of the heir to the throne ; levying war against the sovereign and adhering to the sovereign's enemies, giving them aid or comfort ; and attempting to undermine the lawfully established line of succession.

From 1893 until her death, she had the distinction of being a Russian grand duchess ( by birth ), a British princess and royal duchess ( by marriage ), and the consort ( and later widow ) of a German sovereign duke.

As the consort of a sovereign German duke, she technically outranked her sisters-in-law at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

The title of king usually refers to a reigning king, a sovereign monarch ; while the title of queen usually refers to a queen consort, the non-reigning wife of a reigning king.

Pauline Bonaparte ( 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825 ) was the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, an imperial French Princess and the Princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano.

He materially assisted Aleksandr Menshikov to raise the empress consort, to become Catherine I, ( deceased less than 2 year later in 1727 ), to the throne on the decease of Peter in 1725, and the new sovereign made him a count and one of the six members of the newly instituted Supreme Privy Council ( Верховный тайный совет ).

It also refers to the small, upholstered prie-dieux at which the British sovereign and the royal consort kneel during important religious services such as coronations and weddings.

Princess consort is a title or an informal designation normally given to the wife of a sovereign prince.

Since a male sovereign ruler is generally titled as a king and not a prince, the title of princess consort is not widely used.

Some years later, the last sovereign of the dynasty, Empress Regnant Lý Chiêu Hoàng receded the throne in favor of her consort, Trần Cảnh, one of the nephews of Trần Thủ Độ.

Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince or for the daughters of a king or sovereign prince.

Valentina Visconti ( 1368 – died 4 December 1408 ) was a sovereign Countess of Vertus, and a duchess consort of Orléans as the wife of Louis de Valois, Duke of Orléans, the younger brother of Charles VI of France.

Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

Within states, whether sovereign or federated, a constitution defines the principles upon which the state is based, the procedure in which laws are made and by whom.

Major international credit rating organizations have dropped Colombian sovereign debt below investment grade, primarily as a result of large fiscal deficits, which current policies are seeking to close.

The Commonwealth of Nations — formerly the British Commonwealth — is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies, or dependencies of these colonies with three exceptions, Mozambique ( which was a Portuguese possession ), Rwanda ( which was a Belgian mandate ) and Cameroon ( which is a union of a French mandate and a British mandate ) plus the United Kingdom itself.

According to this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.

State constitutions may grant certain rights above and beyond what are granted under the United States Constitution and may impose their own obligations including the sovereign right of taxation and military service ; each state maintains at least one military force subject to national militia transfer service, the state's national guard, and some states maintain a second military force not subject to nationalization.

When receiving diplomats — who formally represent the sovereign — the receiving head of state grants certain privileges and immunities to ensure they may effectively carry out their duties, on the understanding that these are provided on a reciprocal basis.

Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state.

The ELDR Congress is the sovereign body of the ELDR corporation, usually meeting on an annual basis, and as such its primary purposes are to:

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 – 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 ?– 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 ?– 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 – 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 ?– 569 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 – 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 – 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 – 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

The reign of Emperor Kimmei ( 509 – 571 ), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, is the first for which contemporary historiography are able to assign verifiable dates ; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as " traditional " until the reign of Emperor Kammu ( 737 – 806 ), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.

Dual federalism holds that the federal government and the state governments are co-equals, each sovereign.

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.