The idea that only Parliament should set British laws emerged to protect the people from the King.
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Picking and choosing your constitutional conventions can be more trouble than it’s worth.
The tiltyard – like the football pitch – was an important arena in which men could demonstrate their prowess in front of a vast audience.
The question of who will replace the Queen as Head of Commonwealth is not as simple as it sounds.
Why our honours system is a great thing to have.
By challenging the courts, King Dalindyebo is testing the degree of impunity with which traditional leaders can get away.
The Queen has now been on the throne for 63 years and 217 days. As the embodiment of Britain, it has been certainly been a role that’s out of the ordinary.
Having a Queen is a distinct business advantage, particularly due to reverence for the monarchy in new and emerging markets like China.
Only three of the original 63 clauses remain in force today, but the legacy of Magna Carta runs much deeper.
Members of the British royal family were far closer to Nazi Germany during World War II than has previously been recognise, Russian and Spanish archives suggest.
A year ago, a military coup toppled Thailand’s elected government. The junta promised elections once a new constitution is adopted, but its authoritarian rule betrays a hostility to real democracy.
The Prince has views on defence procurement, badger culling and the Patagonian toothfish. Should we care?
The British public have come to expect impartiality from the monarchy under Elizabeth II.
The Crown has become a little less discriminatory with changes to the rules of succession – and descendants of George II who failed to get permission to wed need no longer fear their marriage is void.
Shakespeare has largely shaped our understanding of the king – and all the while the real Richard lay entombed in a carpark.
The British Library has just staged an exclusive one-day exhibition. The four earliest surviving copies of the original Magna Carta were brought together for an audience of 1,215 people, selected by public…
This summer in June, the Queen will retrace King John’s steps along the three-and-a-half miles from Windsor Castle to Runnymede to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the revered document that came to…
Late last Friday the King of Thailand was rushed from his seaside palace in Hua Hin to Siriraj hospital in Bangkok. The Palace issued an announcement that the King was suffering from a fever and a rapid…
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs … And tell sad stories of the death of kings These melancholic words, uttered by Shakespeare’s Richard II, tell us of a preoccupation with death and mortality…
Monarchs, it seems, are holding their ground in the modern world. If the amor regis displayed in New Zealand and Australia toward Prince William and family in April is anything to go by, one might conclude…
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