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The Monarchist Mission and Credo:
The Monarchist Society Page is dedicated to the dissemination of information and ideas relating to monarchy and the monarchic form of government. Its aim is to provide arguments in support of the monarchic form of government as a superior alternative to other forms of government, and to encourage the discussion and support of these ideas in national and international forums of intellectual and political discourse.
The Monarchist Society Page will provide the viewer/reader with links to related sites; chronicle past and present monarchies, royal houses and aristocratic lineages; provide a forum for information, discussion and research on the topic of monarchy; list, review and comment on literature, articles, books, biographies on the subject; and provide a base for like-minded individuals and organizations to join in its efforts for the promotion and proliferation of the notion of monarchic government.
Monarchists (Royalists) are adherents to the notion of monarchy and monarchic government. They hold that monarchy or government by a monarch is the best kind of government, just as republicans hold that a republic or government by elected representatives of the people is the best kind of government. In seeking to promote the notion that monarchy is the best form of government, monarchists often work for the re-ascension of particular royal lineages to the thrones they have lost due to revolution or other political upheavals. However, monarchists do not just seek to re-establish bygone monarchies. They also work assiduously to maintain and strengthen existing ones, believing that strong and viable living monarchies are the best arguments for the continuation and proliferation of the monarchic form of government everywhere.
Not all monarchists are of aristocratic or royal blood themselves, but they all share the notion that aristocracy and monarchy (hereditary or otherwise) are superior forms of government. However, prominent monarchists are and have been of aristocratic and royal blood, and often have raised the standard of monarchism to keep the legitimate claims of their own lines alive, as well as that of monarchism as a form of government in general. The living members of the Romanovs, the Russian Imperial family, those of the Habsburgs, the Austrian Imperial family, those of the Hohenzollern, the German Imperial family, the houses of Orleans and Bourbon, the French royal families, and those of the Qajars (Kadjars) and the Pahlavis, the Persian and Iranian Imperial families, respectively, come to mind here, among others.
Monarchy, that is rule by one who is a king or queen, is perhaps the oldest form of government in the world, and certainly the longest surviving form of government. Most of recorded history is the history of monarchic government, of one kind or another, up to and including our present century. Monarchy presents itself in a variety of forms and is associated with a number of related concepts such as Aristocracy, Absolutism, Primogeniture, Divine Right, Sovereignty, etc.
Monarchy is also the subject at the core of political philosophy, in the West as well as in the East. From Plato's "Philosopher-Kings," to the divine kingship of Rama and Krishna, to the Mandate of Heaven of the Chinese Emperor, to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, to the "Sun King" and even the "Lion King," the image of the monarch at the center of the social, political and moral universe has had an abiding and relevant presence in our imagination and in our daily discourse.
Our noblest aspirations and our greatest hopes have been associated with the notion of kingship and monarchy. Often, however, the actual practice of monarchy has fallen short of these high ideals and has thus given the form of government and the concept of kingship a bad name.
Monarchy, both ideal and actual, is the subject of our endeavour here. The outcome will hopefully be the promotion of better understanding of the notion of monarchic government and greater adherence to the notion that monarchy is the noblest form of government and worthy of greater support and propagation world-wide as we move towards the 21st century and beyond.
In the spirit of remembrance of those who have been martyred for either their belief in Monarchy or their embodiment of it, we offer this quote from Edmund Burke on the occasion of the death of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, lest we forget!
On the occasion of the death of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Edmund Burke made the following speech in the House of Commons in 1793.
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, --glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Edmund Burke - 1793
Existing Monarchies of the World:
Buganda -- King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II (1993)
KwaZulu-Natal -- King Goodwill Zwelithini (1971)
Lesotho -- King Letsie III (1990)
Morocco -- King Mohamed VI (1999)
Swaziland -- King Mswati III (1986)
Canada -- Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Bhutan -- King Jigme Signye Wangchunk (1972)
Brunei Darussalam -- Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (1984)
Cambodia -- King Norodom Sihanouk (1993)
Japan -- Emperor Akihito (1990)
Malaysia -- Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin (2001-2004)
Nepal -- King Gyanendra (2001)
Thailand -- King Bhumibol Adulyadej (1946)
Belgium -- King Albert II (1993)
Britain -- Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Denmark -- Queen Margrethe II (1972)
Liechtenstein -- Prince Hans Adam (1989)
Luxembourg -- Grand Duke Henri (2000)
Monaco -- Prince Albert (2005)
Norway -- King Harald V (1991)
Netherlands -- Queen Beatrix (1980)
Spain -- King Juan Carlos I (1975)
Sweden -- King Carl XVI Gustaf (1973)
Bahrain -- Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (1999)
Jordan -- King Abdullah (1999)
Kuwait -- Sheikh Jabar al-Ahmad al-Sabah (1977)
Oman -- Sultan Qabus bin Said (1970)
Qatar -- Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani (1972)
Saudi Arabia -- King Fahd bin 'Abdulaziz (1982)
United Arab Emirates -- Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan (1971)
Tonga -- King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (1965)
Western Samoa -- King Malietoa Tanumafili II (1962)
Australia -- Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
New Zealand -- Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Royal Houses of the World in Exile:
The Royal Houses listed here are Royal Houses in exile, and are by that virtue most interesting to us, in view of the Monarchist thesis of
restauration of former Royal Houses.
Non-European Royal Houses:
The Imperial House of Persia (Kadjar)
The Imperial House of Iran (Pahlavi)
The Imperial Ottoman House
The Imperial House of Ethopia (Selassie)
The Royal House of Lybia (Sanoussi)
The Royal House of Iraq (Hashemite)
European Royal Houses:
The Royal House of Albania (In French)
The Imperial House of Austria-Hungary (Habsburg)
The Royal House of France (Orleans) (In French)
The Royal House of France (Bourbon-Parme) (In French)
The Royal House of Borbon (Parma) (In Spanish)
The Royal House of Italy (Savoy)
The Imperial House of Russia (Romanov)
The Royal House of Serbia and Yugoslavia
Royal Houses Returned From Exile:
In view of the Monarchist Thesis, this rubric is perhaps the most important one on these pages!
The Royal House of Spain (In Spanish)
The Royal House of Afghanistan (Barakzai Dynasty)
Genealogy and Titles of Nobility Pages
Glossary of European Titles of Nobility
Royal and Noble Lineages of the World
Genealogical Pages/Non-European Royal Houses NEW!
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions, Events, Talks on Monarchism and Related Topics
*NEW! ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Nouvelle Actualite Royaliste (NAR) wishes to announce the following solemn and important event:
LOUIS XVII - Identifie avec certitude, grace aux analyses ADN realisees a lÕinitiative de notre ami, lÕhistorien Philippe Delorme, le coeur de Louis XVII va etre depose dÕune maniere solennelle dans la crypte de la Basilique Saint Denis. Les ceremonies se derouleront sur deux journees, les 7 et 8 juin prochains, avec la presence annoncee de nombreuses personnalites et membres de familles royales. Vous trouverez le programme de ces ceremonies et tous renseignements pratiques en cliquant sur ce lien: http://www.narinfo.fr.st
A solemn ceremony will be held to inter the heart of Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, identified with certitude by historian Philippe Delorme, in the Basilica of St. Denis (near Paris), the resting place of the kings of France. The solemn ceremony will be held June 7-8, 2004 and will be attended by many representatives of the royal families of Europe.
Royalists everywhere are encouraged to mark the occasion with a solemn moment of rememberance for the martyred king of France and his family.
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*Annonce: Nouvelle Actualite Royaliste (NAR) Table Ronde:
MERCREDIS DE LA NAR - A Paris, chaque mercredi, nous accueillons nos sympathisants dans nos locaux (17, rue des Petits-Champs, Paris 1er, 4e etage) pour un debat avec un conferencier, personnalite politique ou ecrivain. La conference commence a 20 heures tres precises (accueil a partir de 19h45 - Entree libre mais une participation aux frais de 1,50 euro est demandee), elle s'acheve a 22 heures. Un diner amical est alors servi pour ceux qui desirent poursuivre les discussions (participation aux frais du diner 4,60 euros).
* Announcement: The Almanach de Bruxelles' Newsletter is now available by subscription only. Please contact Mr. Remy Adelin for further detail at: http://www.almanach.be/
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* The Monarchist Society of Portugal, Juventiude Lusitana, wishes to announce:
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* The International Qajar Studies Association wishes to announce:
Conferences on the Qajar (Kadjar) Era!
"War and
Peace in the Qajar Era" A two-day conference to be held July
15-16, 2005, in Cambridge, England. For more details click
here!
Mark Your Calendars Now!
Recent Articles, Lectures, Speeches, Interviews, Books on the Monarchist Thesis:
More and more the Monarchist Thesis is becoming mainstream. Judge for yourselves!
Articles and News on Royalty and Monarchism:
NOTE: There has been a hiatus in postings of new articles in 2003. We extend our apologies to all our visitors and subscribers. New articles will be posted soon. Thank you for visiting our pages. (Posted November 2003). Articles for 2002 and prior years can be found in the Extended List of Books and Newspaper Articles on Monarchy below.
Extended List of Books and Newspaper Articles on Monarchy, click here!
Links to other Monarchist Societies/Leagues Pages:
International Monarchist League Home Page
American Monarchist: Constantian Society
Juventude Lusitana (Portuguese Monarchist League)
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