| LORDLIEUTENANT | Personal representative of the sovereign in a ceremonial county |
| LEGATE | In the Roman Catholic Church, a personal representative of the Pope sent to a foreign nation or church district (6) |
| AGGRESSOR | A representative of the Sovereign again on board or an assailant? (9) |
| RUTLAND | A ceremonial county in England - or an island in Donegal (7) |
| VICEROY | Chief official representing a sovereign in a colony (7) |
| AGENTS | Is it a convenience to have personal representatives? (6) |
| LOVE | "The occupation of the idle man, the distraction of the warrior, the peril of the sovereign," per Na |
| EEL | A catadromous snig which is glass-like during its stage as an elver and formerly prevalent in a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (3) |
| REGENT | Name the person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the absence of the sovereign (6) |
| OAKHAM | County town of the ceremonial county of Rutland (6) |
| CIVILLIST | Forerunner of the Sovereign Grant, the funding provided to support the official duties of The Queen (5,4) |
| COURTCIRCULAR | A daily report of the activities and engagements of the sovereign (5,8) |
| ARCHDUKE | Title of the sovereign prince of Austria, assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914 (8) |
| LANCASTER | Duchy of -; portfolio of land/property held in trust for the reigning sovereign in their role as duke, currently the Queen (9) |
| ISLE | Ceremonial county of England, the of Wight (4) |
| ESSEX | Ceremonial county in the East of England |
| ROYAL | Backing of the nonclerical or of the sovereign (5) |
| CIRCULAR | Court ___, daily report of the activities and engagements of the sovereign (8) |
| REEVE | In English history, the local representative of the king in a shire until the early 11th Century (5) |
| GOVERNORGENERAL | Chief representative of the Crown in a Commonwealth country of which the British monarch is head of state (8,7) |
