Download or read book Leopold III and the Belgian Royal Question written by E. Ramón Arango and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1963. Between 1945 and 1951, Belgium faced a crisis in political leadership when its ruling monarch, King Leopold III, was accused of violating the Belgian Constitution during World War II. The "question" at hand refers to the uncertainty over whether King Leopold III could return to Belgium as king. Leopold III and the Belgian Royal Question documents the history of this political crisis, culminating with the abdication of King Leopold and the assumption of the crown by Baudouin, Leopold's son.

Download or read book The Belgian Royal Family written by James Page and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Belgian Royal Family written by James Page and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Belgian Royal Family Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Coburgs of Belgium written by Theo Aronson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy written by Robert Hazell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much power does a monarch really have? How much autonomy do they enjoy? Who regulates the size of the royal family, their finances, the rules of succession? These are some of the questions considered in this edited collection on the monarchies of Europe. The book is written by experts from Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. It considers the constitutional and political role of monarchy, its powers and functions, how it is defined and regulated, the laws of succession and royal finances, relations with the media, the popularity of the monarchy and why it endures. No new political theory on this topic has been developed since Bagehot wrote about the monarchy in The English Constitution (1867). The same is true of the other European monarchies. 150 years on, with their formal powers greatly reduced, how has this ancient, hereditary institution managed to survive and what is a modern monarch's role? What theory can be derived about the role of monarchy in advanced democracies, and what lessons can the different European monarchies learn from each other? The public look to the monarchy to represent continuity, stability and tradition, but also want it to be modern, to reflect modern values and be a focus for national identity. The whole institution is shot through with contradictions, myths and misunderstandings. This book should lead to a more realistic debate about our expectations of the monarchy, its role and its future. The contributors are leading experts from all over Europe: Rudy Andeweg, Ian Bradley, Paul Bovend'Eert, Axel Calissendorff, Frank Cranmer, Robert Hazell, Olivia Hepsworth, Luc Heuschling, Helle Krunke, Bob Morris, Roger Mortimore, Lennart Nilsson, Philip Murphy, Quentin Pironnet, Bart van Poelgeest, Frank Prochaska, Charles Powell, Jean Seaton, Eivind Smith.

Download or read book Great Survivors written by Peter Conradi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi - the celebrated author of The King's Speech - offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europe's royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of ceremonial garb and the grandeur of official functions. At a time when Western society appears to be demanding more equality and democracy, people's fascination with monarchies shows no signs of waning.Taking the reader on a journey between past and present, into a world populated by great celebrities such as Wallis Simpson, Grace Kelly and Princess Diana, as well as lesser-known and slightly murkier aristocratic figures, The Great Survivors analyses the reasons behind this apparent paradox by looking at the history of the main European dynasties - including the Windsors and their predecessors - and providing a glimpse into their world, their lives and their secrets.

Download or read book Leopold the Second King of the Belgians written by Angelo Solomon Rappoport and published by London, Hutchinson. This book was released on 1910 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Leopold III and the Belgian Royal Question written by Ergasto Ramón Arango and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Royal Families of Europe written by Geoffrey Hindley and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the history of present and former ruling families of continental Europe and speculates on the role of monarchy in the future.

Download or read book A Contemporary Monarchy written by Institut belge d'information et de documentation and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mystifying the Monarch written by Jeroen Deploige and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of monarchs has traditionally been as much symbolic as actual, rooted in popular imagery of sovereignty, divinity, and authority. In Mystifying the Monarch, a distinguished group of contributors explores the changing nature of that imagery—and its political and social effects—in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. They demonstrate that, rather than a linear progression where perceptions of rulers moved inexorably from the sacred to the banal, in reality the history of monarchy has been one of constant tension between mystification and demystification.

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Download or read book The English Constitution written by Walter Bagehot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1867 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.

Download or read book Royalty Royal Families written by Source Wikia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Austrian royal family, Belgian royal family, Bohemian royal family, Danish royal family, Dutch royal family, English royal family, Greek royal family, Hungarian royal family, Luxembourgish royal family, Monegasque royal family, Norwegian royal family, Spanish royal family, Swedish royal family, Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Margrethe II of Denmark, Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Princess Josephine of Denmark, Princess Marie of Denmark, Prince Christian of Denmark, Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince Henrik of Denmark, Prince Joachim of Denmark, Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Prince Vincent of Denmark, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, Anne, Princess Royal, Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, James, Viscount Severn, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, Lady Louise Windsor, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Princess Beatrice of York, Princess Eugenie of York, Princess Michael of Kent, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Zara Phillips, Constantine II of Greece, Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark, Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece and Denmark, Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark, Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark, Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Denmark, Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, Princess Tessy of Luxembourg, Prince Sebastien of Luxembourg, Ari Behn, Emma Tallulah Behn, Haakon, ..

Download or read book Europe after Empire written by Elizabeth Buettner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.