Lord High Constable

There are two current and one former royal offices in the United Kingdom of Lord High Constable:

  • The Lord High Constable of England, the seventh of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Great Chamberlain and above the Earl Marshal
  • The Lord High Constable of Scotland, a hereditary, now ceremonial, office of Scotland
  • The Lord High Constable of Ireland, office abolished after the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922
  • Sweden's riksmarsk is commonly rendered as Lord High Constable of Sweden in English

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