Editing Monarchy of Ireland (section)

===Partition: Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, 1922–1936===
{{Main|Monarchy in the Irish Free State}}
[[File:Leinster House - 1911.jpg|left|thumb|[[Leinster House]], Dublin, decorated for the visit of King [[George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] in 1911.<br />Within a decade it was the seat of the [[Oireachtas of the Irish Free State]].]]
In early December 1922, most of [[Ireland]] (twenty-six of the country's thirty-two [[Counties of Ireland|counties]]) left the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]. These '[[Twenty-Six Counties]]' now became the [[Irish Free State]], a self-governing [[dominion]] within the [[British Empire]]. Six of Ireland's north-eastern counties, all within the nine-county [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]] of [[Ulster]], remained within the United Kingdom as [[Northern Ireland]]. As a Dominion, the Free State was a [[constitutional monarchy]] with the British monarch as its [[head of state]]. The monarch was officially represented in the new Free State by the [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State]].

The King's title in the Irish Free State was exactly the same as it was elsewhere in the British Empire, being from 1922 to 1927: "[[By the Grace of God]], of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, [[Fidei defensor|Defender of the Faith]], [[Emperor of India]]" and, from 1927 to 1937: "By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India". The change in the King's title was effected under an Act of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] called the [[Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927]], intended to update the name of the United Kingdom as well as the King's title to reflect the fact that most of the [[island of Ireland]] had left the United Kingdom. The Act therefore provided that "Parliament shall hereafter be known as and styled the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [instead of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]" and "In every Act passed and public document issued after the passing of this Act the expression 'United Kingdom' shall, unless the context otherwise requires, mean Great Britain and Northern Ireland."<ref name="The Times, 4 March 1927">The Times, 4 March 1927</ref>

According to ''[[The Times]]'', the "[[Imperial Conference]] proposed that, as a result of the establishment of the Irish Free State, the title of the king should be changed to 'George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.'"<ref name="The Times, 4 March 1927" /> The change did not mean that the king had now assumed different [[Style of the British Sovereign|styles]] in the different parts of his Empire. That development did not formally occur until 1953, four years after the new [[Republic of Ireland]] had left the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]].

Despite a lack of change in his title, George V's position as king of that country became separated from his place as King of the United Kingdom (as occurred with all the other British Dominions at the time). The [[Government of the Irish Free State]] (also known as [[His Majesty's Government in the Irish Free State]])<ref>''The Irish Law Times and Solicitor's Journal: Public general statutes'', J. Falconer, 1929, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xeBLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA66 66]</ref> was confident that the relationship of these independent countries under the Crown would function as a [[personal union]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=September 2002 |title=Black v Chrétien: Suing a Minister of the Crown for Abuse of Power, Misfeasance in Public Office and Negligence |url=http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v9n3/cox93.html |journal=Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law |volume=9 |issue=3 |access-date=2 October 2008}}</ref>