On 16 July 2025, five prisoners from the United States were secretly transferred to Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy. They arrived without UN oversight, parliamentary approval, or judicial ...

For thousands of years, monarchies have risen, collapsed, and vanished entirely. Yet a small number of royal families have survived wars, revolutions, colonial rule, and modern democracy without ...

(Reuters) - Nepal's 239-year-old Shah dynasty became the latest monarchy to tumble on Wednesday, after its ruling Hindu royals were outmanoeuvred by a decade-long Maoist insurgency and displaced by a ...

Powerful kings ruled France for centuries and their reigns impacted European politics, culture and identity. The monarchs of the medieval dynasties and their successors, the absolute monarchs of ...