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Rule may be hereditary in practice without being considered a monarchy: there have been some family dictatorships [note 3] (and also political families) in many democracies. [note 4] The principal advantage of hereditary monarchy is the immediate continuity of leadership (as evidenced in the classic phrase "The King is dead. Long live the King!
Rule by a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] A common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch.
Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule. [1] A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government independently of any specific monarch, whereas one who supports a particular monarch is a royalist .
The doctrine asserts that a monarch is not accountable to any earthly authority (such as a parliament or the Pope) because their right to rule is derived from divine authority. Thus, the monarch is not subject to the will of the people, of the aristocracy, or of any other estate of the realm. It follows that only divine authority can judge a ...
The Sovereign Grant—the amount paid to the monarchy by the UK’s Treasury—is increasing by £45 million to £132 million this year in a move that looks set to see royal finances spark more ...
A 2021 poll by YouGov found that 5% of Americans would consider it a good thing for the United States to have a monarchy (7% support among men and 4% support among women), with 69% answering that it would be a bad thing. In the YouGov poll, African-Americans were most likely to answer positively in favor of a monarchy at 10% support. [18]
LONDON — King Charles III's monarchy is set to receive a pay rise of more than 45 million pounds ($60 million), with a 53% jump in its official annual income, accounts show, as Britain grapples ...
1470–1471), to rule the dual monarchy of England and France. [64] Henry VI proved to be a weak and incompetent ruler. By 1453, he had lost all his French territories except Calais. [65] Following the French conquest of Gascony, the King suffered a mental breakdown. Parliament appointed Richard, duke of York, as lord protector.