Royal Titles Act 1876 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Royal_Titles_Act_1876".
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The Royal Titles Act of 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., c. 10) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which officially recognized Queen Victoria as "Empress of India". This title had been assumed by her in 1876, under the encouragement of the Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. [1]
The long title of the Act is "An Act to enable Her most Gracious Majesty to make an addition to the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies."
