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Long to rule? Monarchy, Republicanism and the Commonwealth
Republicanism has long been one of the major challenges to monarchy, and the majority of countries in the world are now republics. Yet monarchies endure. King Charle...
Lost imperial crowns: Monarchy and decolonisation
The wave of anticolonialism and nationalism that swept the world after the Second World War brought about the independence of many former colonies. The old imperial m...
African kings: Monarchy and its challenges
There were numerous emperors, kings and other hereditary rulers of nations in pre-colonial Africa, though European conquerors with racist perspectives common in the ag...
Casualties of war: Monarchs and the First World War
Since many royal families were related to each other by marriage, wars turned relatives into enemies. Such was the case in the First World War, when the British King ...
Take me to your leader: colonialism and monarchy
Colonial expansion gave European (and some other) monarchs vast new domains – Queen Victoria, Empress of India, ruled over a fifth of humankind. But colonial monarchs...
Monarchy - Assassinations and other violent occupational hazzards
Many monarchs and other royals have met violent deaths – on the battlefield, by execution after revolution or their coup, and by assassinations at the hands of terrori...
The Monarchy - What was true in Shakespeare’s time, is still true now.
Monarchy is one of the oldest and most widespread forms of government in the history of the world. Even today, more than forty countries have a monarch as the head of...
Scandals and affairs
Scandals of various sorts have punctuated the history of royal dynasties, caused by family feuds, dubious financial arrangements, and frequently by sexual affairs and ...
Introducing Monarchy in Peril
Join Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich, and Associate Professor Cindy McCreery - both from the University of Sydney - on this 8-episode podcast series about monarchy....
