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Similarly, while Britain has many outstanding musicians, the favorite of the royal court is Elton John.
Indeed, to subject people who are born into royal families, or people who marry into them, to lives in a fishbowl, where they are on constant display, like actors and actresses in a continuous soap opera, where human relations are distorted and stunted by absurd rules of protocol, is a terrible form of cruelty.
To be sure, like all European royal families, the origins of the Dutch royal family are decidedly mixed.
So fiscal consolidation is the royal road to economic recovery.
Its society adheres to tribal traditions that afford its ruling elite, headed by the royal family, a paternal and omnipotent role in determining the direction and form of economic development.
Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non-executive president can do better – not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable hypocrisy and servility of a royal court.
So the al-Saud have become Janus-faced: looking in one direction, the royal family encourages democratic reformers to speak out; looking in the opposite direction, it jails them when they do.
The Death of King FahadSaudi Arabia’s decade long royal death watch is over.
As when Marshal Tito was dying in a divided Yugoslavia, the King’s royal relations (who are also his political underlings) fear that the ruler’s death will unleash chaos.
For his part, MBS will now have to fight off mounting opposition within the royal family.
Palestinian Refugees and German ExpelleesThe atmosphere could not have been more tranquil: a former royal castle in the rolling hills of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, where statesmen and politicians held an annual meeting dealing with the Middle East.
Domestically, the royal family struck quickly, adopting a ban on public demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience.
The threat of chaos, evident now in Libya, Syria, and Yemen, also weighed in the royal family’s favor.
Whereas Tunisia and Egypt are relatively homogeneous countries – Sunni Muslims constitute more than 90% of their inhabitants – Bahrain’s Sunnis, including the royal family and the country’s political and economic elite, comprise only about one-third of the population.
To preserve itself, the regime relies on imported security forces that are beholden only to the royal family.
In contrast to the British royal family’s stiffness and reserve, she showed herself to be a princess who was also a normal human being, more like the rest of us.
A major tipping point may have been the red-shirt leaders’ allusion to the conspicuous royal silence in response to the army’s violent suppression, which heightened the army’s fear of a clear and present danger to the monarchy.
The Last of the Sudeiri SevenLONDON – Ever since the Al Saud clan established in 1932 the kingdom to which they gave their name, the exercise of power in Saudi Arabia has been shaped by the intrigues and intricacies of royal politics.
“It’s a wedding skirt that was worn in a Ndebele royal wedding in 1931.”
The Times reported that the Bangwa Queen has been owned by many famous collectors “since she left her Cameroonian royal shrine in the late nineteenth century.”
It is no wonder that an object as culturally important as a royal wedding skirt can be smuggled out of a country without anyone noticing.
In 2001, as our Maoist insurgency intensified and casualties soared, almost the entire royal family – including King Birendra – were massacred by one of Nepal’s princes.
Sometimes, they change headlines that they think are critical of the royal move.
Many journalists spent time behind bars, and there was a price to be paid when the morning newspapers contained even accidental typos, such as occurred when a headline concerning a royal birthday read “suspicious” instead of “auspicious.”
Faces of the royal family are seen everywhere; the faces of women are shrouded, forcibly hidden.
Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.
The royal family is empowered to administer the country, but through consultation with different sectors, like tribal leaders or merchant groups.
Compared to other Gulf monarchies, the Kuwaiti royal family has limited powers, though constitutional rules have frequently been ignored—charges of vote-rigging marred the 1967 election, and parliamentary dissolution has dotted the country’s history.
More recently, with the death last December of the Emir, Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad, parliamentary approval was exercised a key role in resolving succession debates among factions of the royal family.
Then there is conflict over the royal succession process, with King Salman’s effort to consolidate power in the hands of his aggressive and talented but not particularly popular 30-year-old son causing considerable upset within the extended royal family.
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