Meanings of assume the regency in English

And, my child, what think you gave me the courage to overthrow Biron and assume the regency?

They have dispatched a raven to Casterly Rock, inviting your uncle to return to court and assume the regency.

Soon after this, Xerxes dismissed Artabanus, ordering him to return to Susa, and to assume the regency of the empire.

His opponents urged the archduke to hasten his arrival in Spain and to assume the regency in the name of his invalid wife.

He'd resigned command of the entire Planetary Security Force to assume the regency of Harrington Steading, which he might easily have seen as a demotion.

His widow, Helena Glinski, assumed the regency.

The queen has assumed the regency.

When the eldest son of George the Third assumed the Regency, England was in a state of political transition.

The prisoner was released, and himself assumed the regency; but from that moment the strength of the Mikados was gone.

His brother, Prince William of Prussia, who had for a year acted as the King's representative, now assumed the Regency.

The Duchess, a daughter of the Duke de Berry, assumed the Regency on behalf of her son, who was a child.