This left Abdullah, who had had his eye on Mesopotamia, looking for a throne.
Since then he has been haunted by the death of his brother while occupying a throne he never wanted.
If there's a throne and a treasure trove at the end of the rainbow, maybe he'll stick around the next morning.
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The home had been a former silent film studio, and Mr. Duquette had installed a throne from the Chapultepec Palace in Mexico City.
He pointedly refuses to sit on a throne after his election, it is reported, and meets his fellow cardinals standing, on equal footing.
King Abdullah said he did not want his son, Hussein, to inherit a throne where he will be in a similar position to President Assad.
The festival's theme this year is "under the sea, " and the organizers planned nautical touches to the palace, such as an octopus ice sculpture and a throne shaped like a scallop shell.
Jesus came not as the expected earthly King adorned in fine raiment sitting on a throne but as an innocent baby in a stable amid the dust and grime of first century Palestine.
Francis stood, rather than sitting on a throne, to receive the oath of allegiance from his fellow cardinals after his election, and for his appearance on the balcony wore just a white cassock and a simple cross, eschewing gold or jewels, Lombardi said.
The American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner accidentally inherits a throne close to extinction and revives it, creating one of the world's most powerful and wealthy monarchies, and surely the only one of any significance to have gained in political power in modern times.
Thousands queued to see Pope Shenouda, whose body was placed in a coffin before being seated on a ceremonial throne wearing embroidered vestments and a golden mitre, and holding a gold-topped staff.
And through it, they have gained a sense of self, making the lowly toilet seat feel more like a lofty throne.
"Vanity" - a bronze throne made of eerily life-like casts of his own body - will be sat upon by an actor playing yet another president, and delivering a fiery speech, at the street party he is planning for the launch of his new exhibition next month.
The doctor was out, but Fedel insisted that everyone take turns selecting a tiara or a crown, sitting on a giant leather throne, then submitting to having a Polaroid photograph made.
However, due to Sweden's strict royal succession rules -- which at the time did not permit a contender for the throne to marry a commoner -- King Gustav VI Adolph (the current king's grandfather) would not give his blessing to the union.
Last year, Commonwealth leaders agreed to change British succession laws to allow a female to take the throne ahead of a younger brother.
There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.
"We're talking about the future head of state and I think people in Wales feel very strongly about the Prince of Wales and I think, logically, and in fairness, there should be a Princess of Wales in future if the heir to the throne is a woman, " he told BBC Wales.
Cleopatra followed to the throne a sister who had briefly succeeded in deposing their father.
He awaited the crowd's approval seated on a carved wooden throne, with his eyes cast down, and with his mother's cloak of kiwi feathers draped around his shoulders.
Affianced to the lovely Imoinda, the warrior prince Oroonoko, heir to a west African throne, is obliged to suffer the king his grandfather's insistence on his droit de seigneur.
Thomas Jefferson, the third president, discontinued this practice in 1801, saying the elaborate, formal ceremony (which included a "president's throne") too closely resembled a king addressing his subjects.
It also proposes to remove a restriction preventing an heir from succeeding to the throne if they married a Roman Catholic.
Once at the top, the Monastery sits like a Queen on her throne, majestic and regal.
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Might General Kayani thus become a power behind the throne in Afghanistan too?
He decides to make a try for the throne himself, but he reveals his plan to the wrong guy: Unulfo.
"No place like home, " the man of the house says, with appropriate expansiveness, while seated on a sort of gilded throne.
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His second wife, Wassila Ben Ammar, became a power behind the throne.
Mr Hytner's cast is led by Ms Mirren, a compelling stage actress who has taken to the cinema like a queen to her throne.
He believes Des Browne has a "natural inclination to be a power behind the throne" and will have to adjust to life in the firing line as immigration minister.
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