regency

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In Spanish history, a regency refers to a period when a princess rules a country because the sovereign is too young, absent, or incapacitated. This has occurred multiple times in Spain. For example, Maria Anna of Austria served as regent for her son Charles II from 1665 to 1675. Later, Maria Cristina acted as regent for her infant daughter Isabella II from 1833 to 1840. More recently, during the tumultuous period of the First Spanish Republic (1873-1874), various figures held positions of power, though not explicitly as regents in the traditional sense, amidst political instability and revolts.1234

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The Constitution of Cadiz, 1812
…Junta and its successor, the regency, were compelled to summon a Cortes in order to legitimize the situation created by the absence of Ferdinand VII, who was a prisoner in France. Conservatives conceived of this task as the mere supply of the sinews of war on behalf of an absent…
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…Junta and its successor, the regency, were compelled to summon a Cortes in order to legitimize the situation created by the absence of Ferdinand VII, who was a prisoner in France. Conservatives conceived of this task as the mere supply of the sinews of war on behalf of an absent…
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