This incident would link together the Pug breed with the House of Orange, and would cause the breed to be shipped to England with William and Mary, joint sovereigns of the Kingdom of England.

The royal suites were of completely equal value in order to reflect William and Mary's unique status as joint sovereigns.

This met with little support, and was rejected both by William and by Mary herself, so he voted against the regency and joined with Halifax and the Commons in declaring the prince and princess joint sovereigns.

It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England.

For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell.

William and Mary were recognised as joint sovereigns of the British Isles, and Louis withdrew support for James II.

As one of the three joint sovereigns of western Germany, Kirkpatrick carried immense responsibility particularly with respect to the negotiation of the Bonn conventions during 1951-2, which terminated the occupation regime and (in parallel) prepared the way for the rearmament of West Germany.

Parliament offered the Crown not to James's eldest son, James Francis Edward (who would have been the heir-apparent under normal circumstances), but to William and Mary as joint sovereigns.

In 1689 William and Mary were crowned as joint sovereigns.

The moderate and comprehensive character of the settlement at the revolution plainly shows his guiding hand, and it was finally through his persuasion that the Lords yielded to the Commons and agreed to the compromise whereby William and Mary were declared joint sovereigns.