The House of Stuart, originally spelt Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain.The family name comes from the office of High Steward of Scotland, which had been held by the family progenitor Walter fitz Alan (c. 1150). The name Stewart and variations had become established as a family name by the time of his grandson Walter Stewart.

monarchy abolished 69.98 30.02 On 25 March 1924 the Second Hellenic Republic was proclaimed Greece: 1935 Greek monarchy referendum: 3 November 1935 monarchy restored 2.1 97.9 Greece: 1946 Greek referendum: 1 September 1946 monarchy retained 31.6 68.4 86.6 Greece: 1973 Greek republic referendum: 29 July 1973 monarchy abolished 78.6 21.4 75.0

This is a list of monarchs of Persia (or monarchs of the Iranic peoples, in present-day Iran), which are known by the royal title Shah or Shahanshah.This list starts from the establishment of the Medes around 671 BCE until the deposition of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979 CE.

Novi Sad (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Сад, pronounced [nôʋiː sâːd] (); Hungarian: Újvidék, pronounced [ˈuːjvideːk]; German: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina.It is located in the southern portion of the Pannonian Plain on the border of the Bačka and Syrmia geographical regions.

Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) was an early modern multi-national and multi-lingual real union consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.The state also claimed …

Duties and powers. The Constitution confirms the institution of monarchy.The Druk Gyalpo (King of Bhutan) is the head of state and the symbol of unity of the kingdom and of the people of Bhutan. The Constitution establishes the "Chhoe-sid-nyi" (dual system of religion and politics) of Bhutan as unified in the person of the kingwho, as a Buddhist, is the upholder of the Chhoe-sid …

The dissolution of a legislative assembly is the mandatory simultaneous resignation of all of its members, in anticipation that a successive legislative assembly will reconvene later with possibly different members. In a democracy, the new assembly is chosen by a general election.Dissolution is distinct on the one hand from abolition of the assembly, and on the other hand from its …

The kingdom of Romania was a constitutional monarchy for most of its existence with the exception of 1938–1944, during the dictatorships of Carol II (1938–1940) and Ion Antonescu (1940–1944). On 23 August 1944, Michael I restored the last democratic royal Constitution of 1923. However, during his second reign (1940–1947), Michael I ...

The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I.The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", adopted by the Rump …

Frederick IX (Danish: Christian Frederik Franz Michael Carl Valdemar Georg; 11 March 1899 – 14 January 1972) was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972. Born into the House of Glücksburg, Frederick was the elder son of King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark. He became crown prince when his father succeeded as king in 1912. As a young man, he was educated at …

Monarch or Monarchy may also refer to: Biology. Danaus, a genus of butterflies commonly called monarchs; Monarch flycatcher or Monarchidae, a family of passerine birds; Places. Monarch, Alberta, Canada; Monarch, Colorado, United States; Monarch, Montana, an American unincorporated ...

The Ancien Régime (/ ˌ ɒ̃ s j æ̃ r eɪ ˈ ʒ iː m /; French: [ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim]; lit. 'old rule'), also known as the Old Regime, was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500) until 1789 and the French Revolution, which abolished the feudal system of the French nobility (1790) and hereditary monarchy (1792).

The Queen and the Commonwealth. Find out more about The Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth...

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era.. Victorian values emerged in all classes and reached all facets of Victorian living. The values of the period—which can be classed as religion, morality, Evangelicalism, industrial work ethic, and personal improvement—took root in Victorian morality.