Monarchy
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Sir Thomas North was an English translator, military officer, lawyer& justice of the peace https://t.co/cQkT8LhCyq He was presented with a reward of £25 for his part in putting d...
My worldview concerning Saudi Arabia... Ever since the first king post WW I, the kingdom was a vassal state to those that created the monarchy. First the UK and then the U.S. Direc...
One tweet biography of every English & British monarch since Alfred the Great in 886: 1/63 https://t.co/vXRqucNPvp
The last few days since the death of Queen Elizabeth II have felt like a complete whirlwind. As someone who studies the history of monarchy & empire, there's been so much to proces...
Pictures of Thai Brahmins who serve as Rajpurohits to the ruling Chakri Dynasty of Thailand, and who did the Rajyabhisheka ceremony of King Rama X. https://t.co/ef7leRG5cA
I had decided that I would leave aside discussion of the monarchy and its role in our society until the Queen’s funeral had passed. But now that her death is being used by politici...
The British monarchy is just ceremonial and has been this way for 800 years. Its power is nominal, i.e. it only exists in name. The actual power lies with the "Templar Crown", a.k....
Queen Elizabeth II is dead. She served an extraordinary seventy years as sovereign of the United Kingdom. She also in subtle ways played a role in Africa’s immediate post colonial...
Here's a picture of Queen Elizabeth in Aden. Dated 1954. The Queen ruled over South Yemen as a colony in which native Yemenis were separated from the public image while white Bri...
PHOTOS: Ondo Monarch Graduates From Secondary School The teenage monarch of Okeluse Kingdom in Ondo State, Oba Oloyede Adeyeoba Akinghare II, has graduated from secondary school...
From the 17th century the Oba of Benin became more of a recluse involved manily on daily round of rituals that were meant to affirm his semi-divine status. These provided opportuni...
#Thread - 🔺⚜️|| Rai Danuj - Bangadhipati Danujamadhav Dasharath Deva ||⚜️🔺 - The Hindu Monarch of Bengal before whom the Sultan of Delhi himself was compelled to stand and had to...
The 61 English & British monarchs in 61 tweets:
CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE ALAAFIN OF THE OYO EMPIRE (c.1210 to date) The Alaafin was an absolute king; his word was law. He had the power of life and death. He’s iku baba ye...
King Rama IX of Thailand, of the House of Chakri. Traditionally considered by Thai people to be a God-King (Devaraja), the living incarnation of Lord Vishnu on earth. https://t.c...
👉 Thread on Gaudeshwar Mahipal - the Pala dynasty Monarch who resisted invasion of Gaznavids & saved Varanasi (1/16) https://t.co/RqHjT7Tun1
Genesis of the Taliban in #Afghanistan: Thread. King Zahir Shah was the Monarch and absolute ruler of 🇦🇫 from 8 November 1933 to 17 July 1973. His rule was underlined by peace an...
I'm not a Jordan expert. But I do have some thoughts about the increasing difficulty of containing dissent within ruling families. I analyzed these new dynamics in this paper: h...
Not a chess player or religious, but the Queen is important, unless she's a phony, then the King is the trump card. Who is the hidden King? Follow the white rabbit. It's going...
