Editing Emperor (section)

====United Kingdom====
[[File:George V of the united Kingdom.jpg|thumb|upright|[[George V]], [[King of the United Kingdom]] and the [[British Dominions]], [[Emperor of India]]]]
In 1801, [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] rejected the title of Emperor when offered. The only period when British monarchs held the title of ''Emperor'' in a dynastic succession started when the title [[Emperor of India|Empress of India]] was created for [[Queen Victoria]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=liamfoley63|date=2019-11-12|title=History of Styles and Titles Part IV: Emperor of Britain.|url=https://europeanroyalhistory.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/history-of-styles-and-titles-part-iv-emperor-of-britain/|access-date=2020-11-27|website=European Royal History|language=en}}</ref> The government led by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield|Benjamin Disraeli]], conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to the emperors of Russia, Germany, and Austria. That included her own daughter ([[Victoria, Princess Royal|Princess Victoria]], who was the wife of the [[Frederick III, German Emperor|reigning German Emperor]]). Hence, "Queen Victoria felt handicapped in the battle of protocol by not being an Empress herself".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Longford |first1=Elizabeth |title=Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed |date=1972 |isbn=9780515028683 |pages=404 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGWCT8QaGD0C&q=handicapped+in+her+battles+over+protocol+by+not+being+an+Empress |access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref> The Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding the former [[Mughal Empire|Mughal Emperor]] as [[suzerain]] over hundreds of [[princely state]]s. The [[Indian Independence Act 1947]] provided for the abolition of the use of the title "[[Emperor of India]]" by the [[British monarch]], but this was not executed by [[George VI of the United Kingdom|King George VI]] until a [[royal proclamation]] on 22 June 1948. Despite this, George VI continued as king of India until 1950 and as king of Pakistan until his death in 1952.

The last Empress of India was George VI's wife, [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]].