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personal union

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(politics, historical) The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession.
The United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, also known variously as the United Kingdoms, Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.
Many personal unions were ended by differences in the monarchies' rules of dynastic succession, while disputes thereabout lead to dynastic wars.
The Congo Free State was an independent kingdom in central Africa in personal union with Belgium under King Leopold.

(theology, Christian theology) Hypostatic union; the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one individual existence (person).

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Mary was imprisoned and later executed by the English Queen Elizabeth I. Ashley, pp.567–575 Personal union and republican phase In 1603 James VI and I became the first monarch to rule over England, Scotland, and Ireland together. Source: Internet

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