Regent

A Regent is a person who rules during the absence, incapacity or minority of the country's monarch.

List of regents:

Table of contents 1 Egypt 2 France 3 Japan 4 Netherlands 5 Scotland 6 United Kingdom

Egypt

• Hatshepsut of Egypt for Thutmose III of Egypt

France

• Anne of Kiev, during the minority of her son Philip I
• Catherine de Medici:
  • While her husband Henry II of France left the kingdom for the campaign of Metz.
  • Later during the minority of her son Francis II of France
  • Again during the minority of her second son, Charles IX of France.
• Anne of Austria, during the minority of Louis XIV
• Philippe of Orleans, during the minority of Louis XV
• Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, while living in exile, self-declared Regent for his nephew Louis XVII of France after the 1793 guillotining of King Louis XVI.

Japan

• Fujiwara Regents
• Hojo Regents, regents of the Kamakura shogunate

Netherlands

• Queen Emma, during the minority of her daughter Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Scotland

• Mary of Guise, during the minority of her daughter Mary Stuart

United Kingdom

• George IV, Prince Regent during the incapacity of his father, George III.