The new king has, in fact, achieved more in his first three months than most dared predict.
Nor can the new king hope to exert anything like the influence his father had on the world stage.
Jordan's old-guard politicians, on the other hand, do not seem to have any of the new king's sense of urgency.
He was knighted on the battlefield by the new King Henry VII and awarded titles in Brecknock, Carmarthen and Cardigan.
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Given the new king's lesser experience and stature, he will find it hard to rule in such a hands-on manner.
Mark Saunders, a royal biographer, said he had bumped into the new king and found him to be personable and relaxed.
Even after next year's election, the new king, Jigme Khesar Wangchuck, an Oxford-educated 27-year-old, will control the army and appoint key functionaries.
Most dear to her is the new King Hussein Foundation, which seeks to promote debate and will perhaps offer a humanitarian prize.
The fate of his dynasty rests on the new king's ability to provide for the masses who flocked to his father's funeral.
I'm going, on the 28th, I'm going to be at the dedication of the new King memorial, which I've flown over and it looks spectacular.
CDs are still around of course, but as a diminishing stock of record shops around the globe will attest, the MP3 is the new king.
Could we be looking at the new king of late night?
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So, can one make any predictions for Novartis, the new king?
The three then held hands on the balcony as the national anthem was played, before the new king and queen's three young daughters were brought out to wave at the crowds.
And once the new king married in 1976, one of his first moves was to allow Bertil and Lilian to marry, which they did in December 1976, 33 years after meeting.
The five-minute song - Koningslied in Dutch - was due to be performed in the presence of the new king and queen on the day of Willem-Alexander's swearing-in at 19:30 (17:30 GMT).
But the last point I want to make is this -- and I made this point just recently when we were dedicating the new King memorial -- we have been through tougher times before.
Thanks to the "network effects" of these sites -- you join because your friends are already there -- it'll becoming increasingly hard to compete with the new king, or perhaps queen, of social bookmarking.
The exceptions to this rule are a noble woman with ambitions for her husband and a fallen prince whose time breathing could be cut short at any time by the new King, Black Dow.
The investiture of the new king before a joint session of parliament later in the day will be the high point of a year of celebrations marking the end of the Napoleonic occupation in 1813.
We as people and lovers of the kingdom of Cambodia should be optimistic and have faith in the new king, it does not matter if his passions are dancing or the fact that he lived abroad, all that matters is that now he knows his duties and he is promising prosperity and hope for the kingdom of Cambodia.
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In 1933 the new Iranian king, Reza Shah (a populist constitutional revolution soldier who challenged the authority of the Mullahs), challenged the British method of Iranian oil misappropriation: he declared that the British could no longer get away with taking Iranian oil without paying Iran its fair share.
His father had flourished in the Bourbon restoration, but at its fall in 1830, the son took an oath to the new Orleanist king.
The new real estate king is Jonathan Gray, the understated and media shy 42-year-old global head of real estate at the Blackstone Group.
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ZeptoLab began preparing for the next phase of the launch around October, when several of its developers started building an online version of the new game for the Burger King campaign, in which the fast-food chain would give away Om Nom toy with its kids' meals, along with a code allowing the user to play an online version of the game.
Petherbridge has been in King Lear before, as the Fool in New York in 1974 and as the King of France to Olivier's monarch for a TV version in 1984.
The recent excavation of the burial site that once was a church "has raised the king's profile and provided us with new opportunities to make the case for 'Good King Richard, '" the society said.
In a speech on October 25th at The Economist's Buttonwood Gathering in New York, Mervyn King savaged big banks and criticised the new Basel 3 rules as too soft.
Rail links would be improved with either a new terminal on the existing line at King George's Avenue, Leiston or a new extension to the line heading through main construction area.
They also complained that the new law would strengthen supporters of the king by allowing members of the security forces to vote for the first time, and allocating three more seats for women from Bedouin districts.
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