'How can she sign the instrument of abdication?'

The instrument of abdication specified 2 September, the date when the King undertook formally to stand down.

The monarch signs the instrument of abdication, which is then signed by the heir, members of the royal family and members of government.

The Queen signed the Instrument of Abdication at the Royal Palace, Amsterdam.

Since King Idris I was unable to complete the term of his reign as envisaged by his instrument of abdication Hasan never actually became king.

Edward VIII did not, in the Instrument of Abdication, solemnize as an accomplished fact, through the instrument, his departure from the Throne.

Edward held his final meetings with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and signed the Instrument of Abdication, witnessed by his brothers, at the Fort.

The Act also brought Edward VIII's Instrument of Abdication into effect for the purposes of Irish law (s. 3(2)).

Technically she was Queen of France for twenty minutes, in 1830, between the time her father-in-law signed the instrument of abdication and the time her husband, reluctantly, signed the same document.

On 4 August 1969, Idris signed an Instrument of Abdication in favour of Crown Prince Hasan as-Senussi, to take effect on 2 September that year.

For five months, therefore, after Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication, Baldwin remained Prime Minister, steadily handing over control to Chamberlain, but keeping a watching brief in matters of defence.

To enable the Free State to recognise the abdication, the instrument of abdication and the accession of King George VI of the United Kingdom was recognised in one of the Act's schedules.

After Edward signed the Instrument of Abdication on 10 December 1936, the British government communicated with the Dominion governments, who agreed to the passage of the Abdication Act by the British Parliament.

Further, he said he was ready buy back - and donate - items of historical or sentimental interest to the royal family, among them perhaps the Chippendale mahogany desk at which Edward signed his instrument of abdication on Dec. 10, 1936.

The coup pre-empted King Idris' instrument of abdication dated 4 August 1969 to take effect 2 September 1969 in favour of the Crown Prince, who had been appointed regent following the king's departure for Turkey.

Thus, to abdicate the sovereign had first formally to resign (through a proper, signed, written instrument of abdication, that of course was witnessed; and in person); then, Parliament had to enact legislation which recognized, approved of, and ratified the abdication.

Pale blue walls and golden upholstery give a very French mood to the sitting room, although the most important item is English: the Chippendale mahogany table where, at 10.30 A.M. on Dec. 10, 1936, King Edward signed the Instrument of Abdication.

However, the South African act declared the abdication and accession to have occurred on 10 December when Edward signed the Instrument of Abdication, rather than 11 December when the Abdication Act had come into force in the UK.

December 10-December 11 - King Edward VIII signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent.

The King signed the Instrument of Abdication on 10 December 1936, in the presence of his three surviving brothers, the Duke of York (who would ascend the throne the following day as George VI), the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent.

Neither the Instrument of Abdication signed by Edward VIII on 10 December 1936, nor its enabling legislation His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936, indicated whether the king was renouncing the privileges of royal birth as well as relinquishing the throne.

The culmination of the 1936 abdication crisis in Edward VIII's signing an Instrument of Abdication on 10 December 1936 was seized upon by de Valera as an opportunity to almost completely eliminate the role of the Crown, including the abolition of the office of governor-general.