Prince Regentn.
/ˌprɪns ˈriːdʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌprɪns ˈridʒ(ə)nt/ A prince who acts as regent of a country during the minority, incapacity, or absence of the monarch; spec. George Prince of Wales (later George IV), who assumed this role from 1811–20 during the incapacity of George III.The official title of George Prince of Wales in the Act of 1811 (51 Geo. III, c. 1) was ‘Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’, but the word ‘Prince’ was, in non-official language, commonly prefixed to ‘Regent’; 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.
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1668 J. Gailhard Present State Princes Italy 85 The King or Prince Regent of Portugal.
1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. iii. 337 The Prince Regent went yet further, and form'd an Association, which he oblig'd all to sign.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 810 In the case of lunaticks, the right still remained in him: Only the guardianship, or the exercise, of it was to be lodged with a Prince Regent.
1789 Ld. Thurlow Speech House of Lords 22 Jan. in 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.
1811 Whitbread Speech in Commons 1 Jan. (Hansard XVIII. 594) Is it fit that the Prince Regent should have only an ephemeral evanescent establishment?
1812 W. Scott Let. 3 July (1932) III. 139 I dare say our worthy bibliopolist overcoloured his report of your Lordship's conversation with the Prince Regent.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xx. 75 A man who had been born in the year when good old King George I came to the throne—who had been acquainted with the nude leg of the Prince Regent.
1908 N.E.D. at Prince Regent ‘Prince Regent’ had..been casually applied to him [sc. George Prince of Wales] 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.
1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston ii. ii. 70 In a formal reference to the Prince Regent the indignant soldier appealed to Caesar.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 513 The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George was founded 27 Apr. 1818 by the prince regent.
2000 Jrnl. Lat. Amer. Stud. 32 318 Euzebio, fearful of being the target of physical abuse, appealed directly to the prince-regent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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