Gone are the days of beheading royalty and treason for enouncing the monarch's name. |
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Crucially the monarch's capacity to exact the obedience he commands is, however, immediately challenged. |
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The ritual known as Feis Temrach, where the King was mated with the tutelary goddess of Ireland, confirmed the monarch's sovereignty. |
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Milkweed, in its many varieties, serves as the sole host plant for the monarch's life cycle, from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis. |
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The government re-established control and reneged on the monarch's promise. |
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On that date, Charles appointed his first Master of the Household, one of the top royal jobs which is normally reserved for the monarch's court. |
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A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought. |
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As the king unready to govern Simon Bartlett gave what could be called the performance of a lifetime, his lisping accentuating the monarch's worldly innocence. |
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By criticizing the unquestionability of the monarch's absolute authority, the necessary conditions for the possibility of competition and participation were addressed. |
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Although the tomb was shattered and empty, leaders of the team said they will dig on in the hope of finding jewelry, other artifacts, or even the biblical monarch's remains. |
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The three guards selected exited rapidly to carry out their monarch's wishes, and the four left huddled together like a bewildered flock of sheep. |
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The act requires descendants of George II, except for princesses marrying into a foreign family, to gain the monarch's permission in order for their marriage to be valid. |
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For instance, prosecutions are brought on the monarch's behalf, and courts derive their authority from the Crown. |
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All coins since the 17th century have featured a profile of the current monarch's head. |
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In 1992, on the fortieth anniversary of the monarch's accession, it was announced that another town would be elevated to a city. |
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Castile was an authoritarian kingdom, where the monarch's own will easily overrode law and the Cortes. |
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Traditionally the monarch's post is inherited and lasts until death or abdication. |
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The Duchy of Cornwall is a similar estate held in trust to meet the expenses of the monarch's eldest son. |
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In Britain, mercantilism faded as the Parliament gained the monarch's power to grant monopolies. |
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It was agreed that the Bill would include further limitations of the monarch's power. |
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The marshal was originally responsible, along with the constable, for the monarch's horses and stables including connected military operations. |
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Upon the monarch's arrival in the chamber, the members of the Storing stand and the first verse of the royal anthem, Kongesangen, is sung. |
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Despite a committee established to investigate grievances and excesses, Parliament made several efforts to further curtail the monarch's power. |
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He introduced the custom of producing poems for the new year and the monarch's birthday, which became one of the key duties of the position. |
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After Shadwell's selection the laureate was appointed by the Lord Chamberlain, on the monarch's instructions. |
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The monarch's grandson, even if he is the heir apparent, does not succeed to the dukedom. |
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The group wants the last Yorkist king's remains to be re-interred in York Minster as they believe that was the monarch's wish. |
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A Prince of Wales, usually the monarch's heir apparent, may also be crowned in a ceremony known as an investiture. |
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The 1997 flick's title comes from the monarch's supposed relationship with ghillie John Brown. |
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Once seated in this chair, a canopy of golden cloth is held over the monarch's head for the anointing. |
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The monarch is not answerable for his or her actions, and the monarch's person is sacrosanct. |
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It is the monarch's constitutional duty to appoint a Prime Minister who can command support of a majority in the House of Commons. |
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The Governor of Saint Helena is the British monarch's representative across the territory. |
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The Palace of Westminster was the monarch's principal residence in the late Medieval period. |
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The arms in banner form serve as basis for the monarch's official flag, known as the Royal Standard. |
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The monarch's official flag in the United Kingdom is the Royal Standard, which depicts the Royal Arms in banner form. |
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This power of the Lord Lyon is derived from the monarch's royal prerogatives, which has been delegated to the office by law. |
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This is not so in other monarchies where the new monarch's reign begins only with coronation or some other formal or traditional event. |
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The two kings would hold conferences at the foot of an elm tree near Gisors, which was so positioned that it would overshadow each monarch's territory, but to no avail. |
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However, no monarch has done so since 1708, and it is widely believed that this and many of the monarch's other political powers are lapsed powers. |
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Each parliamentary session begins with the monarch's summons. |
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Although replaced as the monarch's primary London residence by Buckingham Palace in 1837, St James's is still the senior palace and remains the ceremonial Royal residence. |
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It was known as the Debatable Lands and neither monarch's writ was heeded. |
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To placate critics, the Oath of Supremacy which nobles were required to swear, gave the monarch's title as Supreme Governor rather than Supreme Head of the church. |
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The Lords Commissioners, as the monarch's representatives are known, wear scarlet parliamentary robes and sit on a bench between the throne and the Woolsack. |
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The Prince of Wales has ever since been the monarch's heir apparent. |
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All modern coins feature a profile of the current monarch's head. |
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Henry was the first monarch of the House of Tudor, and during the reign of that dynasty the royal coat of arms included the Welsh Dragon, a reference to the monarch's origin. |
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In 1301, this modified principality was bestowed on the English monarch's heir apparent and thereafter became the territorial endowment of the heir to the throne. |
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While the monarch's position was implicitly supreme and protected by laws, even kings were subject to royal law, for royal law was thought of as God's law. |
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To placate critics, the Oath of Supremacy which peers were required to swear, gave the monarch's title as Supreme Governor rather than Supreme Head of the church. |
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The Oscar-nominated actor, who will take part in the Plantagenet monarch's reburial, is a second cousin of the king, 16 times removed, experts said. |
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