All European monarchies permit female succession, though Britain, Spain and Denmark give preference to males.
Sweden is the only one of the continental monarchies to have made this sort of change.
Iran, mired in deficits, is in no position to help, compared to the still-flush Arab petro-monarchies.
This was a nasty shock for the conservative Gulf monarchies, but worse was to come.
Today, it is the elected monarchies ruled by economic populists who have the most to fear.
In the Netherlands, there was resistance to the kind of grand regal displays adopted by older monarchies.
Most mainstream political parties in Norway and Sweden say they are content to let their monarchies be.
The Gulf monarchies, meanwhile, have fallen back on their cheque books, vying to lavish the Palestinians with aid.
Whereas other monarchies have mostly abolished or stopped enforcing such laws, Thailand's was made harsher in the 1970s.
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There is, for example, an investiture, not a coronation and protocol is more relaxed than in most other monarchies.
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Like the Gulf states, Jordan and Morocco are monarchies and their kings at least have the legitimacy of succession.
As well as grumbling monarchies, Mr Museveni must satisfy his party's own grandees.
Long-time American protectorates, such as Jordan and the smaller Gulf monarchies have moved more boldly to please their patron.
The kingdom withdrew its ambassador, a move swiftly followed by other Gulf monarchies.
And that's certainly been an issue in the past -- the blocking of Skype in some of the Gulf monarchies.
The oil-rich Arab monarchies are concerned that the rise of Islamists in Egypt will empower their own radical opposition movements.
Farther inland and 306km northeast, the cooler hill towns of Bamenda and Bafut are home to tribal monarchies dating back some 400 years.
Like many Western governments, the Gulf monarchies remain concerned that Iran's nuclear programme is oddly shaped for civilian-only purposes (see article).
The developed world evolved from monarchies and authoritarian rule actual democracies over the last 250 years, some only in the last century.
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"Helena Svensson" and "cyee" correctly pointed out that both countries have monarchies.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are, by contrast, in his view, Baroque monarchies.
Gulf monarchies dismissed the call, but the mere whiff of an embargo was enough to lift oil prices to a six-month high.
The surviving octet of monarchies is strengthened by economic and strategic factors.
France has had five republics since 1789, along with several monarchies, one directory, a consulate, a couple of empires and a collaborationist-fascist dictatorship.
Though expenses are being scrutinized, the popularity of monarchies seems to depend on other issues, including the behavior of members of the royal family.
Mr. BEUTTLER: It was a liberal democratic revolution in 1848 that swept most of European monarchies, and most of them lost, the liberal democrats lost.
With the exception of Kuwait, the Gulf monarchies have strongly disagreed with Mr Bush's Iraq policies but share his anxieties about the role of Iran.
Rather than inspiring the Persian Gulf's more authoritarian monarchies to reform, its 46-year-old experiment with limited democracy has often seemed a model to be avoided.
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But monarchies always had this problem, there's no way around it.
But the approach taken by the European monarchies is an alternative.
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