Whoever eventually steps up to Jordan's throne, the country's foreign policy is unlikely to change.
Saudi Arabia, the real power behind the secretary-general's throne, probably means it when it promises smooth sailing for the oil market.
It appears that he has no intention of reclaiming the chief executive's throne, only of getting control of the board and firing present management.
The pictures were taken in Buckingham Palace's throne room immediately after the bride and groom arrived from their marriage service at Westminster Abbey on Friday.
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.
Fox has been quietly busy over the last few days, unveiling plans for a 24-hour sports network that may be the biggest challenger to ESPN's throne, and adding new features to its mobile apps.
The document urges him to grant King Henry VIII an annulment of his first marriage. (When the pope wouldn't do so, Henry founded the Church of England, which did.) The 1654 deed of abdication of Sweden's Queen Christina, who left her Protestant nation's throne to join the church of Rome, is tied to over 300 round containers, many today empty of wax.
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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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Within months of Richard's taking the throne, the two nephews disappeared, and some assumed Richard had them murdered.
She's been on the throne 52 years, longer than the first Queen Elizabeth, who gave her name to an age.
The Tudors, who controlled More's world, had a vested interest in disparaging Richard and bolstering their family's claim to the throne.
Indeed, as Jeffrey Kingston of America's Temple University in Tokyo points out, Akihito has taken other actions to distance the monarchy from nationalists keen to refashion Japan's identity around the throne.
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.
First Minister Alex Salmond has led tributes in the Scottish Parliament to the Queen's 60 years on the throne.
They were awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medals by Lord Zetland as part of the celebrations for Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne.
Queen Beatrix's mother Juliana resigned the throne in 1980 on her 71st birthday, and her grandmother Wilhelmina abdicated in 1948 at the age of 68.
"He is third in line to the throne, he's been on the world stage for weeks and weeks, he is supposedly surrounded by police security officers, " he said.
Catherine is expecting her first child with William, who's second in line to the British throne.
The app is based on analysis of Queen Elizabeth's published speeches since coming to the throne in 1952.
Was the same corpse exhumed and mutilated after Charles II came to the throne, ending Britain's brief experiment with republicanism and military rule?
As pillars, domes, pools and aqueducts spring from today's ruins, we learn that the throne room was tucked in a vast complex of three palaces.
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Berlin claimed the throne as the world's New Vegetarian Capital.
Mumbai has numerous museums and cultural sites, such as the Elephanta caves, which house ancient Hindu sculptures, and Victoria Terminus (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus), an iconic train station built by the British in 1888 to celebrate Queen Victoria's 50-year reign on the throne.
Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky, " to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence.
Of course, like establishments throughout much of the country, there are old portraits of Thailand's king, who has been on the throne since 1946.
The Egyptian government, intent on suppressing its own Islamists, had felt threatened by Sudan's Islamist power-behind-the-throne, Hassan Turabi, the sharp, fast-talking speaker of parliament.
After hastily abdicating the Spanish throne in 1814, Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte absconded with the pearl to the United States, where it and he bided their time, lying low in Philadelphia.
The 43-year-old king has even cancelled this year's celebrations to mark his 25 years on the throne.
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According to the constitution, the throne should pass to the king's eldest son.
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