'The monarch denies his role as...the main political actor'

Only a king or an elected monarch could incarnate the national interest.

He was the third Bohemian and third German monarch of the Luxembourg dynasty.

Prometheus was a benevolent monarch who scattered the fruits of progress among his people.

The deal was made during the visit of Saudi monarch King Salman to neighbouring Egypt.

Nepal fleetingly made headlines after the 2001 palace massacre of the previous monarch and his family.

Iman AlQhatani breaks the news following an announcement made by Saudi monarch King Abdulla bin Abdulaziz.

The monarch denies his role as the chief of the states and the main political actor.

A common story, still repeated by Shiva, is that GM corn with Bt toxin kills Monarch butterflies.

The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

After taking over his highly controversial father, King Mohammed VI reportedly wished to be a very different monarch.

In early modern England, the withholding of funds was one of parliament's few ways of controlling the monarch.

Greece, in particular, now needs a way to connect its past with its future, but no monarch is forthcoming.

The king of Thailand is the country s most revered public figure aside from being the world s longest reigning monarch.

George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain he was born and brought up in northern Germany.

This strong willed monarch, while ruling the Russian empire autocratically, managed to bring stability and prosperity, allowing capitalism to take root.

Between 1783 and 1971, the Bahraini monarch held the title of Hakim, and, from 1971 until 2002, the title of Emir.

For example, the monarch cannot impose and collect new taxes such an action requires the authorisation of an Act of Parliament.

Former French President François Mitterrand was probably the last European statesman who was treated by his nation like a monarch of old.

The alternative was an elected monarch the Fifth Republic s Constitution, ratified 50 years ago this week, was crafted around that central principle.

As with blasphemy or lèse majesté (crimes against a god or a monarch), crimes against one's social betters were punished more severely.

Reign King Yeongjo was a deeply Confucian monarch, and is said to have had a greater knowledge of the classics than his officials.

In practice, the monarch will ask the leader of a parliamentary block that has a majority in the Storting to form a government.

The Commander in chief of the British Armed Forces is the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, to whom members of the forces swear allegiance.

Queen Victoria, mostly of German blood, did not regard herself as a monarch of Britons alone, but of Indians, Malays, and many other peoples, too.

Beyond the survey data, history has shown that liberal ideas become more popular when a despotic monarch governs people in alliance with a religious establishment.

Several peer reviewed studies, however, have effectively established that the impact of Bt corn pollen from current commercial hybrids on monarch butterfly populations is negligible.

Ideally, that head of state would be an elected president, rather than a hereditary monarch. Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non executive president can do better not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable hypocrisy and servility of a royal court.

With a reign of 63 years, seven months and two days, Victoria is the longest reigning British monarch and the longest reigning queen regnant in world history.

They take place in the Ridderzaal (Hall of Knights) in the Binnenhof, except for the inauguration of the monarch, which occurs in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam.

It all started when on August 26, the Royal Palace, in an unprecedented move, revealed that the monarch has contracted a viral, benign disease and needed convalescing for five days.

In September, Jastaniya was sentenced to 10 lashes for challenging the driving ban but a few days later, news spread that she received a pardon from the Saudi monarch himself.

The Senate of Canada () is a component legislative Chamber of the Parliament of Canada, along with the House of Commons, and the Monarch (represented by the Governor General of Canada).

Since 2012, the House of Representatives appoints an informateur (in previous years the informateur was appointed by the monarch), who checks out possible coalitions, and formateur, who leads formation negotiations.

Christian VII (29 January 1749 13 March 1808) was an Oldenburg monarch who was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death.

He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors he was born in Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

Kissing the hand of the monarch in Morocco is a centuries old custom which, although not compulsory, most Moroccans feel compelled to perform in order to show their allegiance to the king.

Independence, Kingdom of Libya and Libya under Gaddafi On 24 December 1951, Libya declared its independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris, Libya's only monarch.

Parliamentary elections are held at least every four years, but it is within the powers of the Prime Minister to ask the monarch to call for an election before the term has elapsed.

During a series of engagements, which climaxed in the Battle of Maysalun, French forces defeated the rebel forces of the Hashemite monarch King Faisal, and his supporters, entering Damascus on July 24, 1920.

A rendition of Brazil's independence by French painter François René Moreau, from the mid 1800s. At the center is Dom Pedro I, Brazil's first monarch, the son of the then Portuguese king John VI.

His father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a local chief and councillor to the monarch he had been appointed to the position in 1915, after his predecessor was accused of corruption by a governing white magistrate.

The presence of lions at the Tower of London was intermittent, being restocked when a monarch or his consort, such as Margaret of Anjou the wife of Henry VI, either sought or were given animals.

February 13 In Lisbon, a peace treaty is established between Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England, where the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch is recognized.

In 1801, when Great Britain united with Ireland, he dropped the title of king of France, which had been used for every English monarch since Edward III's claim to the French throne in the medieval period.