Mastodawn

Aral Balkan 1d ago

Can you imagine calling yourself a royal in this day and age.

Oh, you’re a king are you? Is that fun? Do you get to play with swords?

How’re these people not laughed out of every room they enter?

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Matthew

1d ago

@aral Royalty don't feel the same anymore or at least in the UK, it doesn't for a while. At best, their just celebrities with a long family tree.

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LukefromDC

@matty @aral Unfortunately true (absolute) monarchies still exist. England (which predates the UK) hasn't been one since the Magna Carta (1275 was that?), but Saudi Arabia is one right now. The dual mode monarchist civil government and religious parallel government in Saudi Arabia very much resembles some of the European monarchies of 1,000 to 500 years ago. They also ran in dual mode, with much contention between the royal houses and the Papacy and bishops in some countries.