Personification of The State
As the living embodiment of the Crown, the sovereign is regarded as the personification, or legal personality, of the Vincentian state, with the state therefore referred to as Her Majesty in right of Her Government in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Queen (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), or simply The Queen. As such, the monarch is the owner of all state property – for instance, prisons in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are called Her Majesty's Prisons – though, this is all in his or her position as sovereign, and not as an individual; all such property is held by the Crown in perpetuity and cannot be sold by the sovereign without the proper advice and consent of his or her ministers.
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