CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The small southern African nation of Eswatini held elections Friday to decide part of the makeup of its Parliament, even as its extremely wealthy king retains absolute ...

Discover why King Louis XIV of France was famously known as the Sun King. Explore his 72-year reign, the height of absolute ...

On 16 July 2025, five prisoners from the United States were secretly transferred to Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy. They arrived without UN oversight, parliamentary approval, or judicial ...

The king of Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarch, has changed the name of his country to the "Kingdom of eSwatini" to mark the 50th anniversary of independence -- and to avoid confusion with ...

As the Trump administration has carried out its crackdown on illegal immigration, Americans have begun to see little-known countries like the African absolute monarchy of Eswatini in headlines ...

(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 ...

In the constitutional monarchs, there are rules and regulations that limit the powers of a king. Examples are the British monarch and Lesotho monarch. These monarchs only perform ceremonial functions.

Craig Prescott, Lecturer in Law at Bangor University on what a “slimmed down”, less formal monarchy, might look like in the context of the world's 43 other countries that have a monarch as their head ...

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