Even without a written constitution, Britain follows laws and carefully documented traditions that together bind the king. By Peter Robins LONDON — One topic was at the heart of King Charles III’s ...

The basic defence of constitutional monarchies came from the British writer Walter Bagehot 150 ago. He argued for a separation between the ceremonial and the actual holders of power. It is summed up ...

The queen is still head of state in Canada. While her death is mourned there by many, the future role of the royals is being widely debated. Canada was one of 15 Commonwealth countries where Queen ...

LONDON — One topic was at the heart of King Charles III’s address to the British Parliament on Monday, and, many experts would say, of almost all his public statements and actions since the death of ...

Prince William is preparing to take a more political approach to the monarchy when he becomes king – privately vowing to "challenge" government advice and speak out on global issues in a way that will ...

(Reuters) - Nepal's 239-year-old Shah dynasty became the latest monarchy to tumble on Wednesday, after its ruling Hindu royals were outmanoeuvred by a decade-long Maoist insurgency and displaced by a ...

For Canadians, the monarchy has always been a bit of a background fixture, technically present and mostly ignored until a ...

I have been wrestling all week with how to explain the case for constitutional monarchy to readers in the world’s greatest republic. I have run through various arguments, but I keep coming back to a ...

For thousands of years, monarchies have risen, collapsed, and vanished entirely. Yet a small number of royal families have survived wars, revolutions, colonial rule, and modern democracy without ...

A general view of the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand, in Bangkok on Jan. 31, 2023. A top court in Thailand ordered the country’s main opposition Move Forward Party to cease all ...