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More than a year has passed since Sheikh Hamad abdicated power to his 34-year old son Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani in June 2013.

Almost but not quite lost amid the day's pirouettes was Nicholas himself, returning to his ancestral home for the first time since he abdicated in March 1917.

In many ways, in the years since, colleges abdicated in loco parentis responsibilities and are now grappling with the consequences, particularly in terms of binge drinking and sexual violence.

Since President Lyndon B. Johnson's nomination was assured, the media turned its attention to the Queen of Resorts and found that most amenities had long since abdicated.

He abdicated in 2004 and his son, King Sihamoni, has reigned nominally ever since.But even in death Sihanouk caused a scene.

EVER since his sudden emergence as Russia's president when Boris Yeltsin abdicated at the end of 1999, Vladimir Putin has baffled analysis.

Prajadhipok abdicated in 1935.

He formally abdicated on January 2 , 1946

Not since the birth in 1894 of the eldest son of the future George V and Queen Mary – the future Edward VIII, who later abdicated – in the twilight of Queen Victoria's reign has such an encounter occurred.

On 9 November, Wilhelm II abdicated at Spa – or, to be exact, he was abdicated.

Last Monday, the Supreme Court abdicated that duty.