Often a symbol and reflection of French political power, the cathedral was vandalized through the French Revolution while Napoleon Bonaparte used it to reinstate monarchic rule with his coronation as Emperor.
From Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace, a vast procession of 4000 ceremonial troops accompanied the royals into a new era, a new Britain, ruled by its newly crowned monarch.
I mean, you know, as is increasingly clear, Trump wants to govern as a monarch and not even a constitutional monarch, simply a monarch, which I seem to recall was one of the reasons why there was an American revolution.
In a commercial country, abounding with every sort of expensive luxury, the sovereign, in the same manner as almost all the great proprietors in his dominions, naturally spends a great part of his revenue in purchasing those luxuries.
That charter was part of a rebuilding of the arts in England that followed the Puritan interregnum, that period from 1649 to 1660, when England was a republic and not governed by a monarch.
He was descended from John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, a distinguished soldier and statesman whose military career spanned the reigns of five monarchs in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Senator Bernie Sanders addressed the crowds in Washington, D.C. No, President Trump, we don't want you or any other king to rule us, but we will maintain our democratic form of society.
I began my discourse by informing his majesty, that our dominions consisted of two islands, which composed three mighty kingdoms, under one sovereign, beside our plantations in America.
He even honored some of the Egyptian god-kings, going so far as to take a god-king name for himself to reinforce the Egyptians belief in monarchical rule.