Word: monarchal
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...decisive acts of His Majesty as King and Emperor have naturally been enshrouded by the nonentity which a constitutional monarch must assume. Nonetheless it is positively known that Lord Kitchener and other British commanders during the War several times modified their plans in accordance with the advice of George V. Before the War at least one paramount decision was taken by the crowned head alone. The situation was that the House of Lords persisted in vetoing bills designed to reduce its power which were repeatedly passed by the Commons. The only way to break the Lords' veto...
...course the weak-chinned Monarch had done no such thing; and within a few hours the Associated Press put on the wire a despatch headed Spanish Rumors Moderate. But the brief interval of drama enabled a supreme and significant anticlimax to be supplied by the Spanish Consul General in New York, placid Don Rafael Casares...
...actual and holy Crown of St. Stephen without which no monarch has been King of Hungary for 900 years, now lies in a great vault atop the citadel of Buda...
...steamed slowly in, King Gustaf V of Sweden watched from a balcony of his immense, square palace, commanding the lagoon. Came the slow thunder of a royal salute and its return. Then the King of All the Swedes and many a Lapp* descended to greet a tanned and sprightly Monarch, who soon landed from the Principe Alfonso. Naturally the royal visitor was His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain...
Young Primo has a tiny black mustache, is a Lieutenant in the Hussars, and plays so keen a game of polo that he was teamed, last month at Santander, with the only reigning monarch who is a crack poloist: His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain...