(n.) The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of it may prove to be true but the passage of time will show much is untrue.” In response to claims of infighting and comparison’s with Wolf Hall, a spokesman for the prince added: “Clarence House employs over 100 hardworking professionals, many of whom have been there for decades and whose work and dedication is appreciated by their royal highnesses.” The row over the book comes amid growing scrutiny of Prince Charles’s ambitions for his kingship.
(2) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(3) Charles has not spoken publicly about how he might approach kingship, and even privately, aides always imply it is a highly delicate issue because it involves talking about a matter of deepest family sadness – the death of his mother.
(4) Charles is allowed no such expression of anger, righteous or oblivious; any fantasies of kingship probably produce guilt in him, even if he was neglected by his mother and left to the bought, unequal love of servants.
(5) – is a prince deemed to be "preparing for kingship"?
(6) The government and the palace argue correspondence and meetings with ministers are a necessary part of his preparation for kingship and in 2012, the then attorney general Dominic Grieve said they had to be kept confidential to protect Charles’s position of political neutrality .
(7) "Without such confidentiality, both the Prince of Wales and ministers would feel seriously inhibited from exchanging views candidly and frankly, and this would damage the Prince of Wales's preparation for kingship," Grieve had said.
(8) The evidence, they said, "shows Prince Charles using his access to government ministers, and no doubt considering himself entitled to use that access, in order to set up and drive forward charities and promote views, but not as part of his preparation for kingship".
(9) Nevertheless new kinds of kingship and governance laid the foundations for the explosive growth of empires that derived their wealth from systematic conquest and forcible appropriation of resources.
(10) As preparations for his kingship gather pace, it has become clear that the 66-year-old heir wants to rule in a far more outspoken way than the taciturn Queen.
(11) The doctrine is that all letters from the prince are part of something called "preparation for kingship".
(12) Though initially Protestant, the Stuart monarchs dallied not only with Roman Catholicism but with the idea, much touted by James I, that kingship was divinely ordained and therefore overrode the rights of parliament.
(13) The unofficial biography, Charles: The Heart of a King, by Time magazine journalist Catherine Mayer, suggests his activism on issues such as the environment would give rise to a “potential new model of kingship”.
(14) In the pictures painted of Charles II in the 10 years that followed the restoration there resides an essence of kingship, a kind of beau idéal of monarchy, never quite matched before or since.
(15) The former attorney general, Dominic Grieve, blocked the release of the memos in 2012, saying that to publish them could “seriously damage” Charles’s kingship.
(16) In signs of an emerging strategy that could risk carrying over the controversy about his alleged meddling in politics into his kingship, sources close to the heir say he is set to continue to express concerns and ask questions about issues that matter to him, such as the future of farming and the environment, partly because he believes he has a duty to relay public opinion to those in power.
(17) The evidence, they said, showed "Prince Charles using his access to government ministers, and no doubt considering himself entitled to use that access, in order to set up and drive forward charities and promote views, but not as part of his preparation for kingship … Ministers responded, and no doubt felt themselves obliged to respond, but again not as part of Prince Charles's preparation for kingship."
(18) A former high-ranking government official, who is experienced in handling the prince’s interaction with ministers, described the risk to Charles’s kingship posed by publication as “quite large”.
(19) Mr. Baldwin said the King felt he could not carry the "almost intolerable burdens of kingship without a woman at his side."
(20) "Ministers responded, and no doubt felt themselves obliged to respond, but again not as part of Prince Charles's preparation for kingship."
Monarchy
Definition:
(n.) A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.
(n.) A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.
(n.) The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also, despite recent changes, an absolute monarchy where local elections are a novelty and women are still officially banned from driving.
(2) The once squeaky-clean Spanish royal family has become immersed in a growing fraud scandal that reveals how members of King Juan Carlos's family may have cashed in on the monarchy's good name.
(3) This ad hoc response to a moment of crisis was buttressed by successive laws that, in order to exclude a Stuart succession, enmeshed monarchy with the Church of England, thus fanning a religious hostility the rest of Europe was already growing beyond.
(4) Time to scrap all honours everywhere, including UK.” Australians had their chance to ditch the monarchy in 1999.
(5) Thailand’s monarchy is protected by some of the world’s strictest lese-majeste laws.
(6) In his bid to revitalise Spain's sagging monarchy, Felipe VI must be willing to show that he will handle things differently to his father, said Urreiztieta.
(7) Opposition demands – supported by youth groups, civil society organisations and Islamists – are for changes within the framework of the Hashemite monarchy.
(8) Rajab, no fan of monarchies, says Jordan and Morocco have done better than his own country in responding to popular demands for change.
(9) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
(10) Saudi Arabia, by contrast, has no popular vote and its leadership has long been a heriditary monarchy which controls nearly all aspects of the state.
(11) Discontent with the monarchy is no longer confined to avowedly republican parties or rightwingers, who have never forgiven the king for introducing democracy and transforming the state handed to him by dictator General Francisco Franco on his death in 1975, when Spain's historically fragile monarchy was restored for the second time in a century.
(12) Donald Trump tweets support for blockade imposed on Qatar Read more Trump started the day by taking sides in a bitter row among the Gulf monarchies, in which Saudi Arabia and its allies have sought to isolate Qatar .
(13) Sensitivity over criticism of the monarchy has increased in recent years as the poor health of the country's 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has raised concerns about a smooth succession.
(14) Salmond will also set out his belief that Scotland's independence will not threaten other parts of the UK but lead to a more mature relationship between equals, leading to a "social union" between Scotland and England, sharing a currency, monarchy and other institutions.
(15) Felipe sought on Thursday to disentangle the monarchy from controversy.
(16) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(17) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
(18) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
(19) But the top choice among big-ticket items is voting reform: fully 50% say this is the top priority, compared with just 19% for a new constitution, less than 6% for electing the Lords, and just 3% for abolishing the monarchy.
(20) We are involved in modernising the British monarchy.