Monarchy of California

Monarch of California
Coat of arms of California
Charles III
Details
Style	His Majesty
Formation	10 December 1931
Abolition	10 December 2029
Residence	Government House
Appointer	Hereditary

From 1909 to 2029 , the Dominion of California was a self-governing country that shared a monarch with the United Kingdom and the other Dominions of the British Empire and later in 1957 , the United Australasian Commonwealth. The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of the Dominion of California.

California became a republic within the Commonwealth on December 10, 2029

The monarchy was created by the California Act 1909 which made California a self govering Dominion within the Empire . The Act also made provisions for admitting Los Angeles as a province of the Dominion in the future, but Angeleno voters rejected this option in a referendum held in 1949 . the Channel Islands became a League of Nations mandate of the Union in 1915. Following a referendum on the subject, California adopted a new constitution in 2029 which abolished the monarchy.

List of monarchs

The British Crown (1848–1939)

Portrait	Regnal name (Birth–Death) Royal dynasty	Reign over California		Full name	Consort
		Start	End
Sovereign of the Colony of California
	Victoria (1819–1901) House of Hanover	20 June 1837	1 January 1901	Alexandrina Victoria	Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
		Lieutenant governors : David C. Broderick, Samuel Purdy, Robert M. Anderson, Albert Joseph Wallace , Robert M. Anderson , Joseph Walkup , Isaac N. Quinn , Pablo de la Guerra , John F. Chellis , Tim N. Machin, William Holden , William Irwin , John Mansfield , John Daggett , Stephen M. White , John B. Reddick , Spencer G. Millard , William T. Jeter , Jacob H. Neff
		Premiers: Peter Hardeman Burnett , John McDougal, John Bigler, J. Neely Johnson , John B. Weller , Milton Latham , John G. Downey , Leland Stanford , Frederick Low , Henry Huntly Haight , Newton Booth , Romualdo Pacheco , William Irwin , George Clement Perkins , George Stoneman , Washington Bartlett , Robert Waterman , Henry Markham , James Budd , Henry Gage
Sovereigns of the Union of California
	Victoria (1819–1901) House of Hanover	1 January 1901	22 January 1901	Alexandrina Victoria	Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
		Governor-general: Jacob H. Neff
		Prime minister: Henry Gage
Sovereigns of California
	Edward VII (1841–1910) House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	22 January 1901	6 May 1910	Albert Edward	Alexandra of Denmark
		Governors-general: Jacob H. Neff, Alden Anderson, Warren R. Porter, Albert Joseph Wallace
		Prime ministers: Henry Gage , George Pardee, James Gillett, Hiram Johnson
	George V (1865–1936) House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (until 1917) House of Windsor (after 1917)	6 May 1910	10 December 1931	George Frederick Ernest Albert	Mary of Teck
		Governors-general: Albert Joseph Wallace, John Morton Eshleman, Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman, Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, John Baird, 1st Baron Stonehaven, The Earl of Bessborough
		Prime ministers: Hiram Johnson , William Stephens, Friend Richardson, C. C. Young, James Rolph

The Californian Crown (1931– 2029)

In 1931 the Californian Crown emerged as an independent entity from that of the British Crown due to the Statute of Westminster 1931.

Portrait	Regnal name	Reign		Full name	Consort
Sovereigns of California
	George V (1865–1936) House of Windsor	11 December 1931	20 January 1936	George Frederick Ernest Albert	Mary of Teck
		Governors general: The Earl of Bessborough, the Lord Tweedsmuir
		Prime ministers: James Rolph, Frank Merriam
	Edward VIII (1894–1972) House of Windsor	20 January 1936	11 December 1936	Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David	none
		Governor general: The Lord Tweedsmuir
		Prime minister: Frank Merriam
	George VI (1895–1952) House of Windsor	11 December 1936	6 February 1952	Albert Frederick Arthur George	Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
		Governors-general : The Lord Tweedsmuir, the Earl of Athlone, the Viscount Alexander of Tunis , Shin Sung-mo
		Prime ministers: Frank Merriam , Culbert Olson, Earl Warren
		Territorial change: 1949: the Channel Islands are given to Los Angeles
	Elizabeth II (1926–2022) House of Windsor	6 February 1952	8 September 2022	Elizabeth Alexandra Mary	Philip Mountbatten
		Governors general: Shin Sung-mo , Adolfo López Mateos, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Emmanuel Pelaez, Choi Kyu-hah, Bruce R. McConkie, Ezra Taft Benson, Howard W. Hunter, Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson, Russell M. Nelson, David Johnston, Julie Payette, Mary Simon , Park Shin Ho
		Prime ministers: Earl Warren, Shinobu Miyake, Nanoka Kiba, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, Kagome Higurashi, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson , Kim Campbell, Jean Chrétien, Helen Zille, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger , Gavin Newsom , Lee Na Yeon
	Charles III (b. 1948) House of Windsor	8 September 2022	10 December 2029	Charles Philip Arthur George	Camilla Shand
		Governors general: Park Shin Ho
		Prime ministers: Lee Na Yeon