Sir Leo Victor de Gale was the first governor-general

Governor-General

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 of Grenada

Grenada

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, from February 7, 1974 to September 30, 1978.

Leo de Gale was born in St. Andrew's Parish, near Grenville, Grenada

Grenville, Grenada

Grenville is the second largest city in Grenada, after St. George's, and it is the capital of the largest parish, Saint Andrew Parish. Grenville is located on Grenville Bay, about halfway up the east coast of the Caribbean island of Grenada and is heavily involved in the agriculture export industry...

. He served as acting governor of Grenada for two weeks before it officially achieved independence in February 1974 and he became governor-general. He retired the year before the 1979 Grenada revolution.

In the 1960s, Dame

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 Hilda Bynoe

Hilda Bynoe

Dame Hilda Louisa Gibbs Bynoe, DBE was governor of Grenada between 1967 and 1972...

 who was the existing governor

Governor

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 of Grenada

Grenada

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 appointed Leo de Gale as the acting governor of Grenada

Grenada

Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

 because she had to take care of some business in a foreign country.

Sir

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 Leo de Gale became the first governor-general

Governor-General

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 during the reign of Prime Minister

Prime minister

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 Sir Eric Mathew Gairy

Eric Gairy

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from Grenada`s independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979...

. Sir Leo de Gale reigned from 1974 to 1978. He was then followed by Sir Paul Scoon

Paul Scoon

Sir Paul Scoon, GCMG, GCVO, OBE was Governor General of Grenada for 14 years, from 1978 to 1992.-Biography:Sir Paul was born on 4 July 1935 in Gouyave, a town on the west coast of Grenada. He attended St. John's Anglican School and then the Grenada Boys' Secondary School...

 (1978 to 1992).

All this time, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth

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, still reigns.