See also: Constitutional role of the Monarchy & Ceremonial role of the Monarchy
Grenada’s form of government is a Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy. Our head of state is His Majesty The King of Grenada, currently King Charles III. As King of Grenada, he embodies the Grenadian state and is it’s highest constitutional and ceremonial representative. Grenada is a fully sovereign and independent state, with the monarchy integrated into our national constitution. The Grenadian monarchy came into being when we became an independent state in 1974, whereupon the monarchy in this country ceased to be British and became a wholly new and separate Grenadian institution.
Executive power in Grenada is vested in The King, meaning that all actions of the government and state are carried out in his name. However, as Grenada is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system, most of his royal powers are exercised only on the advice of the Prime Minister or other relevant government Ministers. The Crown has little influence in the day-to-day government of Grenada. This does not, however, mean that the monarchy does not play a crucially important role in our constitutional system. There are a number of important functions and duties which the Crown carries out on its own, without ministerial advice, and scenarios in which the Crown might be needed to step in to moderate or protect the constitution.
The King is, simultaneously but separately from his position as King of Grenada, also King of the other 14 Commonwealth Realms, which include the United Kingdom, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, The Bahamas and New Zealand. As such, the King is usually not resident in Grenada, and his royal duties and responsibilities are exercised on his behalf and in his name by his representative, the Governor-General. Our status as a Commonwealth Realm does not make Grenada or any of the other realms subordinate or beneath another, or any less independent. The King is completely separately and equally king of all 15 realms, including Grenada. He is therefore, in a legal sense, different people in each realm. The Monarchy of Grenada is thereby wholly our own, a completely separate institution from that of the United Kingdom.
Grenada Monarchist League 