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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