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ˈPrince ˈRegent
[prince 10 a, and regent.]
A prince who is regent of a country, during a minority, or in the absence or disability of the sovereign. Particularly, in Eng. Hist., the title commonly given to George Prince of Wales (afterwards Geo. IV) during the mental incapacity of George III, 1811–20.
His official title in the Act of 1811 (51 Geo. III, c. 1) was ‘Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’, but as he was ‘the Prince’ (of Wales), the word ‘Prince’ was, in non-official language, commonly prefixed to ‘Regent’, even by speakers in Parliament; he was also empowered by the Act to sign documents George P.R. or G.P.R., instead of his initials G.P. as Prince of Wales. ‘Prince Regent’ had also been casually applied to him in January 1789, in course of the Regency resolutions on the occasion of the King's first illness, which came to nothing because of his recovery.
1789Ld. Thurlow Sp. in Ho. Lords 22 Jan. (Cobbett Parl. Hist. XXVII. 1072), That the patronage of the royal household was not likely to be exercised by the exalted personage, in whose hands the resolutions went to place it, to the disadvantage of the Prince Regent, her son. 1811Whitbread Sp. in Ho. Com. 1 Jan. (Hansard XVIII. 594), Is it fit that the Prince Regent should have only an ephemeral evanescent establishment? 1811Sheridan 18 Jan. (Ibid. 906), The recommendation which that right hon. gent. gave himself, in order to fill the Prince Regent with the idea that he was the best minister he could have. 1812Scott Let. Ld. Byron 3 July, I dare say our worthy bibliopolist overcoloured his report of your Lordship's conversation with the Prince Regent. |
