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There has always been a fascination with monarchy through the ages with the population revering and perhaps fearing its authority at the same time. It is a concept that has over time with absolute monarchies becoming constitutional monarchies in many countries while the absolute monarch has largely disappeared.
A royal wedding was once an occasion that would lead to higher taxes to pay for the celebrations, a royal collection if you like but it is now something that leads to celebrations throughout the country.
The monarchies throughout the world are various but the most usual now is the constitutional monarchy where the King or Queen is merely the ceremonial Head of Sate. That in no way is intended to give the impression that the role lacks importance, it is just that the Country is administered by a democratically elected government which allows the monarchy to announce its agenda and programme at the beginning of each parliamentary session but that monarchy has no input into the content of the proposed legislation.
The role then in Western Europe is largely ceremonial and provides continuity to government as different parties win elections and form new governments. As the role is hereditary, the first born son is the heir to the throne although there have been thoughts that it should become the first born whatever sex, and if monarchies survive in any form throughout this century, it is fairly certain that a daughter will be able to ascend the throne ahead of her younger brother.
There are some Middle East Monarchies which still hold absolute power, autocratic monarchies. They include Oman and Qatar and Saudi Arabia, wealthy kingdoms whose riches are largely based on oil. Swaziland is another, in Southern Africa, were wealth is limited, but most certainly in the hands of the King. Brunei is an Asian monarchy with that same vast wealth of the Middle Eastern rulers and the population depend on the benevolence of his rule to enjoy life.
These latter still hold the power that the hereditary monarchies in Europe held for so long. There were few restrictions on the Tudors of England but the Stuart House found far more opposition, including a period of being deposed by Cromwell. Things were never to be the same again when the House returned and subsequent families held the throne.
There were still the riches and privilege that went with the Title and a royal wedding was an event when all this wealth, privilege and status were clear for all to see. The Palaces of the Crown are museums of the finest of everything, the royal collection of art treasures, books, sculptures and jewellery has been amassed over centuries of power, over those same centuries when British navigational skills ensured great parts of the World were under British control, and the valuable items of those countries headed back to Britain to the royal household in many instances.
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