List of kingdoms and royal dynasties
Monarchism is a movement that supports the monarchy as a form of government.
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A monarch is the person at the head of a monarchy. This is a form of government in which a Sovereign state or country is ruled or controlled by an individual who typically inherits the throne by birth and rules for life or until abdication. Monarchs may be autocrats (absolute monarchy) or ceremonial heads of state who exercise the power, with actual authority vested in a parliament or other body (constitutional monarchy).
Monarchism is a system based on the belief that political power should be concentrated in one person who rules by decree. A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government, independent from the person, the monarch.
Africa
Algeria
Benin
Burundi
Chad
Egypt
Ethiopia
Ghana
Libya
Madagascar
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Nigeria
Senegal
South Africa
Tunisia
Asia
Afghanistan
- Kingdom of Afghanistan
- Mohammed Zahir Shah, The Last King of Afghanistan
Bhutan
Cambodia
China
Israel
India
Iran
Iraq
Japan
- Imperial House of Japan - Also known as the Yamato Dynasty
Jordan
Korea
Kuwait
Laos
- List of monarchs of Laos
- Kingdom of Laos
- Sisavang Vatthana - Last king of Laos
Mongolia
Myanmar
- Konbaung Dynasty
- List of Burmese monarchs
- Thibaw Min - The last King of Burma
Nepal
- Gyanendra of Nepal - King of Nepal
- Shah dynasty
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
Vietnam
Europe
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Bavaria
Belarus
Belgium
Bohemia
Bulgaria
Denmark
Finland
France
Greece
Georgia
German Empire
Hungary
Italy
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Monaco
Moldova
Moravia
Netherlands
Normandy
Norway
Luxembourg
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Sweden
Turkey
Tuscany
Two Sicilies
Ukraine
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
Wales
Spain
Andalucía
Aragon
Asturias
Cantabria
Catalonia
Castile
Galicia
León
Majorca
Murcia
Navarre
Valencia
Americas
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Brazil
Canada
See also Monarchism in Canada
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
Mexico
Peru
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
United States
Oceania
Australia
Hawaii
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Tahiti
Tonga
Tuvalu
Well known 19th, 20th and 21st century monarchists
- Tony Abbott
- Honore de Balzac
- Hilaire Belloc
- Tony Bennett[2]
- Sir John Betjeman
- Sir Ian Botham[3]
- Leonel Brizola
- Sean Caughey
- Navin Ramgoolam
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Russell Crowe[4]
- Robertson Davies
- Dame Judi Dench[5]
- Marlene Dietrich
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
- David Flint
- Anatole France
- Francisco Franco
- Mel Gibson[6]
- Giovannino Guareschi
- Lord Heseltine
- John Howard
- Sir Mick Jagger
- Tom Jobim
- Sir Elton John
- Boris Johnson
- Sir Tom Jones
- Achille Lauro
- C.S. Lewis
- Sir Paul McCartney
- Sir Yehudi Menuhin
- Sir Robert Menzies
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Manfred Reyes Villa
- Goncalo Ribeiro Telles
- Ayrton Senna
- Radek Sikorski
- Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
- Dame Joan Sutherland[7]
- Baroness Thatcher[8]
- Ritter von Trapp
- Lord Wilson of Rievaulx
- Barbara Windsor
References
- ↑ McKinsey, Kitty (June 27, 1997). "Kings Try for Comeback". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 13, 2007.
- ↑ Expressed support for the British monarchy in the TV series Royalty A-Z
- ↑ "The monarchy stands for everything that I love and I feel proud to be British. Yes, I am a royalist." (2007)
- ↑ "I am a monarchist and I think Queen Elizabeth has done a wonderful job for our beloved country. The Royal Family deserve more respect." (2003) "When you talk about our beloved Queen Elizabeth, I don’t think there is a more gracious world leader." Princes Charles and Andrew are "intelligent, wise and kind men." (2010)
- ↑ Expressed support for the British monarchy in the TV series Royalty A-Z (2002). Narrator of The Royal Story.
- ↑ "I am a little conservative...I tend to favour the monarchy, or the idea of the monarchy; the idea of sovereignty, because up until now it's done a pretty good job of maintaining people's independence and freedom.." (1998)
- ↑ Patron of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy
- ↑ "Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians."
External links
- The Monarchist League
- Theodore's Royalty and Monarchy Site
- IMC, official site of the International Monarchist Conference.
- SYLM, Support Your Local Monarch, the independent monarchist community.