He had been introduced as "His Royal Highness Prince Edward" for the abdication broadcast, but George VI felt that by abdicating and renouncing the succession Edward had lost the right to bear royal titles, including "Royal Highness".
By abdicating, these emperors escaped the control of Fujiwara regents and chancellors; once inside a temple or monastary, they surrounded themselves with capable non-Fujiwara aristocrats.
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"It is unacceptable for Attorney General Kathleen Kane to put her personal politics ahead of her taxpayer-funded job by abdicating her responsibilities," said Rob Gleason, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party.
The right in France learned, in the eighteen-seventies, that it could rule only by abdicating royalism completely — even though the Thiers government had been elected on a royalist cast.
He supported his favourite daughter, Maria Isabel, as regent, pending the decision of Peter, who attempted to resolve the dynastic and political problem by abdicating the crown of Portugal in favour of his daughter, Maria II, and bestowing his own constitution on Portugal.
Rather, Diocletian partially ceded power by creating a decentralized, tetrarchic structure and then set a precedent by voluntarily abdicating the throne several years before his death.
By willingly abdicating its position in the EU, the UK risks not only losing political influence within the EU, but also risks alienating its European allies.
Because by completely abdicating their constitutional warmaking power to the executive branch, they are displaying nothing short of their own "profiles in cowardice".
Lionel all but cures the Duke of his affliction, and stays on hand when his pointless brother, Edward Guy Pearcee), led astray by Wallis Simpson, abdicates in 1936, leaving Bertie to assume the throne as George VI.
She said she had been intensely grateful to her mother for only abdicating by the time Queen Beatrix was in her early 40s, allowing her time with her three young sons.
