Sentence examples for foreign monarch from inspiring English sources

But all Mr. Klein says is that a bow or curtsy to a foreign monarch is a violation of Miss Manners's etiquette rules.

No direct heirs of the king's body could lead to civil war between competing contenders for the crown, each asserting a stronger claim than the other, or to an invasion by a foreign monarch claiming the throne.

The Guardian lists Ten of the Best Prime Ministers in literature, including one rescued by Hercule Poirot and another in a novel by Benjamin Disraeli, of all people whose "twin sister marries first the foreign secretary, then a foreign monarch".

Government buildings flew the union flag at half mast for 12 hours on the day of the death of the king last month on the instructions of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which said it was acting in line with protocol for the death of a foreign monarch.

The union flag was lowered to half-mast on government buildings in a decision which the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said was "in line with long-standing arrangements following the death of a foreign monarch".

I am as democratic as the next man, a proud Yankee who would bow to no foreign monarch, but there is something about these splendid, marmoreal piles that reduces me to a goggle-eyed "Brideshead Revisited" groupie.

Most of Verdi's operas were written against an unstable political background, as foreign armies criss-crossed a divided country, and foreign monarchs held sway over its principalities.

Until Italy was unified as a country in 1870, the area was a patchwork of duchies, principalities, city-states, republics, and territories controlled by foreign monarchs.

The department's data point out that parades were far more common in earlier decades, when heads of state and foreign monarchs were often treated to a pageant down the Canyon of Heroes.

The British, Marx wrote in his dispatches on the Indian uprising of 1857, could be as revolutionary abroad as they were conservative at home, happy to topple foreign monarchs as long as it suited their own political and commercial interests.

Although the Spanish people had accepted foreign monarchs in the past, they deeply resented the new French ruler.