Which of following best describes the status of... - WAEC Government 2010 Question

 Governors-general were British subjects, appointed on the advice of the British government, who acted as agents of the British government in each Dominion, as well as being representatives of the monarch. As such they notionally held the prerogative powers of the monarch, and also held the executive power of the country to which they were assigned. In these countries the governor-general acts as the monarch's representative, performing the ceremonial and constitutional functions of a head of state.