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    was Queen of The Gambia from 1965 to 1970, when the Gambia was an independent sovereign state and a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations...
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    Constitution of 1965 was the queen of the Gambia, Elizabeth II, who was also the queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch...
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    2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She had been queen regnant of 32 sovereign...
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    The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa;...
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    and 1970, the Gambia was an independent sovereign state that shared its head of state with the United Kingdom and other states headed by Queen Elizabeth...
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    losses. Merchants of the Commonwealth of England sent expeditions to the Gambia in 1651, but their ships were captured by Prince Rupert the following year...
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    Thereafter, the viceroy of the British Crown in the Gambia became the Governor-General of the Gambia, until it renounced the Queen as head of state in 1970...
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    The president of the Republic of The Gambia is the head of state and head of government of the Gambia. The president leads the executive branch of the...
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    Dawda Jawara (category Presidents of the Gambia)
    August 2019) was a Gambian politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994,...
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  • Isatou Ceesay (born 1972) is a Gambian activist and social entrepreneur, popularly referred to as the Queen of Recycling. She initiated a recycling movement...
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    The Prime Minister of The Gambia, known as the Chief Minister from 1961–1962, was the head of government in the Gambia Colony and Protectorate, and later...
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    later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. Camilla was raised...
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    Banjul (redirect from Capital of the Gambia)
    /bænˈdʒuːl/, US: /ˈbɑːndʒuːl/), officially the City of Banjul, is the capital of The Gambia. It is the centre of the eponymous administrative division which...
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  • list of the last monarchs in Africa. Elizabeth II previously reigned over this country as Queen of the United Kingdom, from 6 February 1952 until the nation's...
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  • chronological list of the first women to be heads of state and heads of government in Muslim-majority countries, excluding those who held the role in a temporary...
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  • Charles of Hesse), was offered but did not accede to the throne as King of Finland. Elizabeth II ceased to be Queen of the Gambia in 1970 when the country...
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  • the former British colony of Gambia gained complete independence as a parliamentary monarchy. The head of state was still the Queen of the Gambia, British...
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  • The Miss Gambia is a national beauty pageant in The Gambia. The pageant aims to be a cultural ambassador of The Gambia. The Miss Gambia beauty pageants...
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  • The Order of the Republic of The Gambia is the highest state order of The Gambia. The incumbent President of the Gambia is the Grand Master of the Order...
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    The Gambia is a Muslim majority country, with Muslims constituting 96.4% of the population, some 3.5% are Christian, and 0.1% practice other religions...
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    own right, but the archaeological evidence is ambiguous. Elizabeth II, Queen of the Gambia (reigned 1965–1970) Elizabeth II, Queen of Ghana (reigned 1957–1960)...
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    structure. The monarch since 8 September 2022 is King Charles III, who ascended the throne on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, his mother. The monarch and...
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    Yahya Jammeh (category Presidents of the Gambia)
    25 May 1965) is a Gambian politician and military dictator who overthrew the elected government and became President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017,...
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  • Royal Style and Titles Act (category Monarchy of the United Kingdom)
    granted the Gambian monarch the title and style Elizabeth the Second, Queen of The Gambia and all Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth...
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    of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to literature and to charity in the UK and the Gambia. In 2024, Gregory's...
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    Queen, Defender of the Faith. She was proclaimed as queen using that title in Canada and South Africa, whereas, in Australia, New Zealand, and the United...
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    HMS Gambia (pennant number 48, later C48) was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was in the service of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN)...
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  • 1970-87 Queen of the Gambia — 1965-70 Queen of Ghana — 1957-60 Queen of Guyana — 1966-70 Queen of Kenya — 1963-4 Queen of Malawi — 1964-6 Queen of Malta...
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    minister of the self-governing Gambia. Reference The Gambia abolished the monarchy on 24 April 1970, via referendum. Jawara became President of the Gambia on...
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  • Gambian Americans are an ethnic group of Americans of Gambian descent. There are about 8000 Gambians living in the United States, involving themselves...
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