REGENT. 1. A ruler, a governor. The term is usually applied to one who governs a regency, or rules in the place of another.
2. In the canon law, it signifies a master or professor of a college. Dict. du Dr. Call. h.t. 3. It sometimes means simply a ruler, director, or superintendent; as, in New York, where the board who have the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools, are called the regents of the University of the state of New York.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Visitors to 'Filipinos in the Gilded Age' will be greeted by the fascinating unsigned painting 'Indigenous Inhabitants Before the Queen Regent at the General Exposition of the Philippines Islands, Madrid, 1887.'

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Moved by the Ilonggos' loyalty, the Queen Regent Maria Cristina honored the City of Iloilo, in the name of her son King Alfonso XIII, with the title Muy Noble, in a royal decree signed on March 1, 1898.

The end of the Spanish Empire in Iloilo

In 1889, the Queen Regent of Spain named it the Queen's City of the South, and in 1890, the city government was established.

Iloilo rising

As mother of the King of Portugal and Queen Regent of Spain, for her brother Philip II, hers was a case hard to refuse.

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April 27 was the birthday of the Queen Regent Maria Cristina that required the attendance of the Cabildo and the Royal Audiencia in a service at the cathedral.

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Next evening at the castle the Queen Regent gives a ball and presents an array of princesses for Siegfried to choose a bride.

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