The ruling Saud dynasty lent tourism its royal housekeeping seal of approval by establishing a special commission last year and appointing a handsome, charismatic prince to run it.
The church provided the concepts of territorial and hierarchical organization that helped to make states out of tribal territories; its teachings transformed a charismatic prince into a king possessing the attributes and responsibilities of a national leader, judge, and first Christian of the realm.
The picture that emerged was one of Ali Hassan Salameh, a.k.a. the Red Prince, the charismatic leader of Black September, a special operations unit of the PLO best known for kidnapping and murdering eleven Israelis at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Branagh updates the look and feel of the Bard's drama for modern film-going audiences, making Prince Hal a ferocious, charismatic hero of the battlefield, and giving his mud- and blood-soaked war scenes a visceral punch.
But the princes, led by the charismatic elector of Brandenburg, an upstart power in the east, rejected the emperor's proposal to make all estates pay imperial taxes authorised by the Reichstag ie, what would have been a rudimentary "transfer union" as it is contemplated in the EU today.Having settled on a loose union, the empire concentrated on making it irreversible.
Like most souls possessed of a charismatic brilliance, the artist formerly known as Prince can't modulate any aspect of his performing self or his tireless, insomniac work habits.
Siegfried The Nordic Prince Charming, Siegfried is the charismatic offspring of Siegmund and Sieglinde, the fearless warrior whose kiss alone can revive Brünnhilde, Sleeping Beauty of the Great North Woods.
And he would presumably be nervous of the reception given to his production, considering the way it retells the original ballet as the story of an insecure young prince in thrall to a charismatic male swan.
But a few minutes later, there he is, slinking down the stairs, Afro bristling in the wind, sinewy sun-bronzed arms sticking out of a Prince and the Revolution wifebeater so charismatic that every move is a pose.
The top of the human social ladder were supposed to take on the most charismatic avian hunters, emperors trained eagles and princes peregrines, while those on the bottom rungs, the 'knaves', had to make do with kestrels.
Like Machiavelli's prince, the marquise is both repellent and charismatic.
