Bedecked in armour on the field of battle, war was an essential element of the theatre of kingship.
As such, Harry's Afghan exploits are a throwback to the earthy, violent and militaristic roots of kingship.
By contrast, Charles I never fully recovered his kingship from defeats on the fields of Marston Moor and Naseby in the English civil war in the following century.
From the dawn of kingship on these isles, monarchy and armed service have gone hand in hand.
He shares the scene with a more dynamic figure, a young dwarf whose apple and rattle parody the appurtenances of kingship and who lessens the scene's grandiosity.
Morocco's constitution holds the person of the king, also known as Commander of the Faithful, to be sacred and inviolate.Such relics of divine kingship may soon go the way of Louis XVI's head.
In a letter, he wrestled with the clash between a society in flux and the law of hereditary kingship, a clash that seems to hang over Thailand today.
By tradition, kingship has passed between brothers of one generation of the Al Saud family before descending to the next.
Prince Nayef, feared since 1975 as the country's minister of interior, also holds the position of second deputy prime minister, traditionally the runner-up spot for kingship.
But many other gypsies "everywhere --some 10m in 40 countrieverywhere --some notion of kingship contradicteverywhere --somed existence.Unlike the other great diaspora, the Jews, the gypsies have never desired their own nation state.
This brought about the Association, a national loyalty test that forced the Tories to abandon the concept of de facto for de jure kingship and to acknowledge that English kings did not rule by indisputable divine right.Another reason for historians' failure to recognise the true nature of the Glorious Revolution may be found in contemporary politics.
