The Savoyards, basically, are a monarchy.

And what is going to happen to the monarchy?

And then there's monarchy and that's my role on the community, so ...

I did not come here to be devoured by symbols of monarchy!

Then, people said monarchy dominated everywhere because it was rooted in human nature.

But I've been struck with a parallel in how people often talk about capitalism today and how they talked about the monarchy 200 years ago, just after the French Revolution and the restoration of the monarchy in France.

For the next three dozen years as king, this king actually started measuring and managing around happiness in Bhutan including, just recently, taking his country from being an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy with no bloodshed, no coup.

A railroad inspector like you'll be, is like a major in the army during the Austrian monarchy.

A second priority will be to decide the fate of Nepal s centuries old monarchy. The Maoists ran on an anti royalist platform, and it is widely anticipated that the first meeting of the Assembly will abolish the monarchy and declare Nepal a people s republic.

Hua Hin hosts the Klai Kangwon royal palace, or Far From Worries Palace, where the country's monarchy have often stayed.

He had this line in his book that supposedly comes from the Habsburg Monarchy, where there was an empress Maria Theresa, who was having trouble conceiving.

Then monarchy had seen off its big challenger, mass democracy, which was seen as a well intentioned but doomed experiment, just as capitalism has seen off socialism.

And that's why the Ottoman Empire in its last decades turned into a proto democracy, a constitutional monarchy, and freedom was a very important political value at the time.

Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past. And some modern autocrats, such as Robert Mugabe, have been bolstered by their credentials as national freedom fighters.

Certainly, the Shia revolt in Bahrain, hijacked by an opportunistic Iranian revanchist faction, has failed to foment the collapse of the Khalifa monarchy. And, in Jordan, the religious legitimacy of the Hashemite monarchy has sustained the state in the face of the growing challenge posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, while the fear of regional violence spilling over into the Kingdom has temporarily curbed the Jordanian public s appetite for rebellion.

A senior royal told CNN that the Duchess of Cambridge has fulfilled all of her objectives one year after marrying Prince William and has become a full member of the British monarchy.

Mr Goldsmith told The Sunday Telegraph Cromwell is regarded by many, perhaps more in the late 19th century than today, as a defender of parliament against external pressure, in his case of course the monarchy.

Under a monarchy that led the country from 1951 1969, King Idris s relatives and inner circle ran roughshod over fledgling state institutions. More interested in reigning than in governing, state institutions withered under Idris s neglect.

Their crime was to call for a constitutional monarchy. The official verdict states that they threatened national unity, challenged those in authority, and incited public opinion against the state while using foreign, that is, Western, terminology.

Under a monarchy that led the country from 1951 1969, King Idris s relatives and inner circle ran roughshod over fledgling state institutions. More interested in reigning than in governing, state institutions withered under Idris s neglect. nbsp

Furthermore, waves of Syrian refugees are threatening the sustainability of the Jordanian monarchy, already roiled by profound internal cleavages. Hezbollah has drawn Lebanon into the Syrian conflict, setting up a showdown between Shia and Sunni at home.

But there is a need still for a certain amount of monarchy, a certain amount of sometimes we have to make a decision, and we don't want to get bogged down too heavily in formal decision making processes.

Kuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961. Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.

But the French Revolution also produced a powerful and attractive myth of social transformation. Far from discrediting the flawed approach to debt management, the nation, which succeeded absolutist monarchy as the basis of political authority, remained wedded to statist solutions.

While the PJD s success was based on institution building within a constitutional monarchy, al Nahda has revolutionized the Tunisian system. But both parties won after running on a moderate platform of constitutionalism, separation of powers, civil liberties, and women s rights.

Alas for them, however, the Flemish have no such desire. Belgium, after all, became an independent state in 1830, precisely in order to liberate the Catholic Flemish, as well as the Walloons, from being second class subjects in a Protestant Dutch monarchy.

The violence perpetrated by the Maoist movement over the past eight years was making it difficult for Nepal to achieve peace and development and challenging the aspirations of the Nepalese people to build peace and prosperity through constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy.

Yemen s popular uprising has splintered the security establishment, with different military factions now in charge of different neighborhoods in the capital, Sana. In Bahrain, by contrast, the monarchy has used the foreign Sunni mercenaries that dominate its police force to fire on demonstrators, who are predominantly Shia.

Demonstration of military success in protecting the regime may indeed be designed to strengthen the 28 year old general s claim to power. If so, the risky behavior we have seen recently is part of the process of solidifying a unique political system a hereditary Communist monarchy.

Because they avoid over simplification, foxes make fewer mistakes. Foxes will often agree with hedgehogs up to a point, before complicating things Yes, my colleague is right that the Saudi monarchy is vulnerable, but remember that coups are rare and that the government commands many means of squelching opposition.

Villagers and merchants from both sides conducted a brisk business and border trade unfettered by the authorities. Bilateral tensions flared when Thai politics heated up after the September 2006 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, on charges of corruption and disloyalty to the monarchy.

424. The enactment of Nepal s new Constitution (1990), which guarantees basic human rights to every citizen, creates a constitutional monarchy and a system of multi party democracy, and establishes an independent judiciary, is welcomed. The incorporation of the Convention in the Nepalese Constitution (1990) is appreciated by the Committee.

Not long after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, these liberal reformers joined with 160 other professionals to write and sign a petition to Crown Prince Abdullah asking for reforms. The petition called for the monarchy to work within constitutionally prescribed limits, and for an independent judiciary.

Voting on budgets in Parliament a representative institution ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government. A constitutional approach limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (and on military adventure), which had been the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.

If governing by fear is no longer tenable, China s new rulers must start fearing for the CCP's future. As the country s silent political revolution continues to unfold, the question is whether they will heed its signs, or attempt to maintain an order that like the French monarchy cannot be saved.

The new generation of Saudi leaders could spearhead a transition to a genuine constitutional monarchy, based on a transparent system of checks and balances. A more representative governance model, together with strong economic incentives, could unleash the young population s creativity and dynamism and secure Saudi Arabia s future in the process.

The letter, which was signed by 104 Saudi intellectuals, petitioned the Government on several political issues, including the necessity of adopting comprehensive institutional reforms in order to establish a constitutional monarchy, to strengthen relations between the leadership and the community and to guarantee the unity and the stability of the Kingdom.

More important, an elected president has much greater legitimacy than a hereditary monarch, whose claim to authority depends exclusively on tradition and ceremony. With a king or queen unable to say or do anything that may cause a whiff of controversy, the monarchy has been stripped of its power of action or reflection.

Russia's political system, indeed, is not what prevents the country from moving forward, and it never has been. Whether Russians live under monarchy, communism, Yeltsin's cowboy market economy or Putin's supposed dictatorship of law, the result is always the same the system despises its citizens, eliciting an equal and opposite reaction of derision and distrust.

Western conservatives are no less prone to creative destruction than Western liberals conservatives, indeed, are well known for inventing traditions. Take the 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who invented most of the supposedly ancient traditions around the British monarchy. Innovation in the West seems to be a never ending, self transforming process.

GENEVA Asia s political spectrum ranges from the brutal despotism of North Korea to the enlightened constitutional monarchy of Bhutan (so enlightened that it developed Gross National Happiness as an alternative measure to Gross Domestic Product), with many shades in between. But the old charge that Asia is ill suited for Western style democracy is being leveled again.

On May 15, in a closed trial without legal representation for the accused, three leading reformers Ali Al Dumaini, a well known journalist and poet, and university professors Abdullah Al Hamid and Matruk al Falih were condemned and sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to nine years. Their crime was to call for a constitutional monarchy.

WASHINGTON, DC When the Bourbon monarchy was restored in 1815, the French diplomat Talleyrand is reported to have said of the Bourbons They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Ten years after the start of the Iraq War, the question is whether anyone Americans, Iraqis, Iranians, other Arab states has learned anything from this terrible experience.

This constitutional approach limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (as well as on military adventure), which had been the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy. The result was a dramatic reduction in the British state s borrowing costs and the emergence of a well functioning capital market, which caused private borrowing costs to fall as well.

Nepal has had a long history of monarchy, spanning close to two and a half centuries, and bringing an end to this tradition might prove to be more difficult than expected. The Maoists willingness and ability to display a degree of sympathy and respect for their opponents will go a long way toward determining their success in office.