Sentence examples for royal compound from inspiring English sources

The Afghan Presidential palace is in the sprawling, park-like nineteenth-century royal compound in downtown Kabul.

The mansion is not part of the main royal compound, the Arg Palace, where Zahir lived throughout his reign, which spanned nearly four decades.

One of the king's ex-wives has appealed to western media organisations to intercede in the case of her three daughters, allegedly virtually imprisoned in the royal compound by their father in Saudi Arabia.

Here, the various living quarters of the former royal compound make for a majestic sight: salons decorated with intricately carved and painted masks, pagoda roofs supported by gilt pillars and furnished with heavy wooden tables and brocaded chairs.

After divorcing Princess Muna -- who still lives in the royal compound, near Abdullah's palace -- Hussein married a Palestinian woman named Alia Toukan, who bore a son, Ali, and a daughter, Haya, before she was killed in a helicopter crash.

Prior to colonial rule, part of the territory that is now Benin consisted of powerful, independent kingdoms, including various Bariba kingdoms in the north and in the south the kingdoms of Porto-Novo and Dahomey (Dan-ho-me, "on the belly of Dan;" Dan was a rival king on whose grave Dahomey's royal compound was built).

In other traditions, portraits of leaders were commissioned posthumously, by their immediate successors, for enshrinement in royal compounds, forbidden to the view of commoners.

The earliest of the royal compounds at Ambohimanga, Bevato ("many stones", also called Fidasiana-Bevato), was first established by Andriamborona, who built houses there for himself and his family in the late 17th century.

But the modern cosmopolitan city differs from the old royal palace compound.

On arrival, Mr. Sheehan was escorted to the royal automobile compound, where, he says, a scene of mind-boggling excess awaited him.

For the last 15 years the gold has been stored three floors down in the Central Bank vaults inside the royal palace compound, known as the Arg, now the presidential palace.