Sentence examples for renounce the throne from inspiring English sources

The conclave opened 12 days after Benedict XVI became the first pope in modern times to renounce the throne of Peter.

The king did not renounce the throne, only the power he seized 14 months ago and retained with the help of the security forces under his command.

In agreement with the Imperial Duma we have thought it well to renounce the throne of the Russian Empire and to lay down the supreme power.

A month later, when the King finally did renounce the throne, Flanner reported that the "abdication was very much like a funeral".

The king therefore made his final decision and submitted his abdication on December 10, 1936 ("I, Edward the Eighth,…do hereby declare My irrevocable determination to renounce the throne for Myself and My descendants").

In order to confuse his enemies, Louis issued a new decree of abdication, hedged with countless provisos, on November 19, 1333; this time he proposed to renounce the throne in favour of his Lower Bavarian cousin Henry.

Archduke Otto formally renounced his rights to the Austrian throne on May 31st 1961, but he has never renounced the throne of Hungary.

So he moved pre-emptively, renouncing the throne in 1955 to run in Cambodia's first elections.

Two years later he succeeded to the pretendership when his eldest brother renounced the throne to marry a commoner; his second brother, who was deaf, also ceded his claim.

Edward, of course, renounced the throne in December 1936 in order to marry the American-born divorcée Wallis Simpson, lending the timepiece a priceless peculiarity.

I read in later editions what there was to read about the abdication of this king, which was decorously reported - there was a learned article in the Observer on previous kings who had (none of them, until now, voluntarily) renounced the throne, and a complex discussion of precisely when, and how, the King ceased to be king in the dominions.