Ever since †James Frazer’s Golden Bough, in which the ritual slaying of the divine king provides a central motif, as well as a conscious echo of the Christian account of Christ’s death and resurrection, kingship has been most...

A cork will do for a king, if you need him that badly. (Yiddish) A good king is better than an old law. (Danish) A king cannot go as far as he will, only as far as he can. (German) A king is given for the sake of the kingdom, not the kingdom for the...

The word "monarch" derives from Greek monos archein, meaning "one ruler," which referred to an absolute ruler in ancient Greece. With time, the word has been succeeded in this meaning by others, such as autocrat or dictator, and the word monarch in...