Constitutional monarchy Act 1689, which placed similar limits on the Scottish monarchy. Although Queen Anne was the last monarch to veto an Act of Parliament when, on 11 March, 1708, she blocked the Scottish Militia Bill, Hanoverian monarchs continued to selectively dictate government policies. For instance King George III constantly blocked Catholic Emancipation, eventually precipitating the resignation of William Pitt the Younger as prime minister in 1801. The sovereign's influence on the choice of prime minister gradually declined over this period, King William IV being the last monarch to dismiss a prime minister, when in 1834 he removed Lord Melbourne as a
Queen of Malta Queen of Malta From 1964 to 1974, Elizabeth II was Queen of Malta. The State of Malta was an independent sovereign state and the Queen was also monarch of the other Commonwealth realms, including the United Kingdom. The Queen's constitutional roles in Malta were mostly delegated to a Governor-General. Malta became a republic within the Commonwealth in 1974, and the Queen was replaced as head of state by the President of Malta. Elizabeth II became Queen of Malta with the passage of the "Malta Independence Act 1964". The Act transformed the British Crown Colony of Malta into the independent State