When the king was away, did their queens sign Acts of Parliament on their behalf?
Upvote:0
The question is flawed. It assumes that only a Queen regnant sharing power with her husband or other partner could ever sign laws and other government documents in the absence of the male ruler. That is not the case. It was perfectly possible for a queen consort to sign sign laws and other government documents in the absence of her husband.
On 13 May 1888, Princess Isabel of Brazil signed the lei aurea or Golden Law abolishing slavery in Brazil. She was acting as regent while her father the emperor was in Europe for medical treatment.
Empress Isabella was the regent of Spain in 1529-1532 and in 1535-1539 while her husband, Emperor Charles V was away. No doubt she signed a number of bills into law.
At that time the rightful ruler of Castile, etc. was her mother-in-law Queen regnant Juan la Loca ("Jane the Insane") but she had been called insane by her father King Ferdinand II of Aragon and her son and co-king Emperor Charles V and locked away with no outside contact.
After Emperor Charles V came of age he put female relations in charge of the Netherlands; his Aunt Margaret widowed Duchess of savoy until 1531 and his sister the widowed Queen Mary of Hungary and Bohemia until 1555.
Emperor Henry V left his wife, Empress Matilda or Maude (later claimant of the English throne) as the regent of Italy from 1118-1119.
And there are many other examples of queens consort without any political power while their husbands are in the country ruling while their husbands are away.
Thus it would seem logical that Queens regnant who were co rulers with their husbands could sign laws and other important documents while their husbands were out of the country.
But of course the best answer would be actual proof of the procedure in specific cases.
Upvote:6
William and Mary II were England's first (and only) dual monarchs. So for them, either could sign.
Philip was not the Sovereign, Mary I was. So only Mary could sign. This was another unique situation; usually the husband would get all the wife's property, which included titles. People were not happy that Mary was marrying the king of Spain, and that was part of the deal.
Up to Henry VII, sovereigns always had to grant consent in person. From the time of Henry VIII, monarchs have been able to grant assent by sending a group of privy councillors to do it on their behalf. This became the norm. Apparently the last occassion assent was granted in person was 1854.
So in other words, the Queen consort never had any role in granting assent. Either the king had to do it himself, or he could send members of the privy council.
More post
- 📝 Is there any evidence to support the claim that the US Strategic Defense Initiative played any significant role in undermining the USSR?
- 📝 How were political factions in the late Roman republic different from political parties today?
- 📝 Help identify this (probably Confederate) sword?
- 📝 When did Germans stop supporting Adolf Hitler?
- 📝 How did the Greeks keep a prytaneum alight in storms?
- 📝 What was the reason for the geographical error in Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech 5th March 1946?
- 📝 What is the name of the theory that says an early discovery can stop technological development?
- 📝 Did Mussolini know that Hitler was going to attack Poland?
- 📝 What's the history of bus hijacking & burning during the Troubles?
- 📝 Was breaching the Yellow River dykes Chiang Kai-Shek's Mers-el-Kebir?
- 📝 How did France balance the budget by 1738?
- 📝 How were siege ladders used to attack medieval castle walls?
- 📝 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Experience
- 📝 How exactly were beer/bread made in Ancient Egypt?
- 📝 Which recent revolutions resulted in a major redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor?
- 📝 What color triangles did the different religious groups (those not Jews or JWs) wear in Nazi concentration camps?
- 📝 How did the Carthaginians manage to survive three years of siege?
- 📝 Where did the idea of weeks originate and why do they have seven days?
- 📝 Why did the Swabian Hohenzollern princes give away their power to the Prussian king in 1850?
- 📝 What were the post World War 2 effects on Germany?
- 📝 Did the apartheid South Africa leaders seriously plan to make the bantustans be independent countries?
- 📝 Was Christianity legalized during the Meiji Restoration?
- 📝 How was the initial allocation of the US House of Representatives decided?
- 📝 What if a slave entered a state without slavery?
- 📝 What systems of opression did colonial South America utilized to acculturate indigenous peoples, compared to the ones used in North America?
- 📝 What kind of rifle used this shell case?
- 📝 Are there any ideas as to what the English landscape was like before the arrival of the Angles?
- 📝 Were freedmen part of the "familia"?
- 📝 Are there any old paintings (medieval period onwards) that actually depict the female genitalia rather than just leaving the pubic region empty?
- 📝 Historically, when (and why) did Ganga become a holy river? Is it after Sarasvati dried up?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 When the king was away, did their queens sign Acts of Parliament on their behalf?
- 📝 Why did the Swabian Hohenzollern princes give away their power to the Prussian king in 1850?
- 📝 Why didn't the English overrun France when the king was their captive?
- 📝 Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
- 📝 Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?
- 📝 Did it take 3 minutes to reload a musket when the second amendment to the US constitution was ratified?
- 📝 Where did Hitler get the funds to invest in economic development programs such as the autobahn when the German economy was in a depression?
- 📝 When the Portuguese began the exploration of the West African Coast, did they believe the Indian Ocean was an enclosed sea?
- 📝 If salt was scarce and expensive, how did people "salt the earth" to ensure their enemies would stay defeated?
- 📝 After the fall of the Roman Empire, where did their armor go? Was it used by any dark ages forces?
- 📝 When did the Egyptians stop wrapping their dead in bandages?
- 📝 Why did Operation Market Garden go ahead when the allies knew German armor was in the area?
- 📝 How did slavery become permissible in the French West Indies when it was forbidden in France?
- 📝 What was the program of the Mensheviks in their later years? How did they hope to achieve it?
- 📝 Why did the Germans wait until it was too late to reinstate their unrestricted submarine warfare in WWI?
- 📝 When was King John of England given the name 'Dollheart', and who first used it?
- 📝 What did the Baltic Fleet do in Reval in 1904 and when was it there?
- 📝 When did the US colonies/states stop making their own currencies?
- 📝 What was the first instance of native Americans using gunpowder weapons in battle and did they ever make their own powder?
- 📝 When did the Greeks start the practice of burying their dead relatives' bodies?
- 📝 How did Jews feels in the Confederate States of America and what was their political position?
- 📝 When did Walter Benjamin say "We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector"?
- 📝 In the Middle Ages, adultery was strictly condemned by the Church. How did Kings justify their extra-marital affairs?
- 📝 When did the Portuguese decide to extend their West African exploration to finding a sea passage to India?
- 📝 When a wattle-and-daub construction was demolished, how did they recycle or dispose of the materials?
- 📝 When was King Alfred first called 'Alfred the Great'?
- 📝 When did the Babylonian king Amel-Marduk reign?
- 📝 How long did Jews in hiding take to reveal themselves at the end of WW2? What was their reception?
- 📝 When was the concept of electoral districts / constituencies with their own borders (as opposed to pre-existing towns/counties) invented?
- 📝 In the 1920's, why did the German government fire working women if their husband was employed?