imagine having a MONARCHY in the year of our lord 2020, lmao
fucking netherlands, didn't even start with a king, keeps theirs
fucking belgium, king's grandda or whatever did genocide in the Congo, wtf
fucking Scandinavia wtf ur kings suck get rid of them it isn't 1320 anymore
fucking SPAIN my god ur king was put there by a fascist get a grip
and England, fuckssake, first ones to behead the fuckers, yet now the most attached to that dessicated corpse named Lizard or something, truly the most feebled people: getting shown up by puritan genociders 😑
Direct political power? Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco all still have monarchs with significant direct political power.
Indirect political power? Well, all of the monarchies are rich as shit so...
EDIT: Also the UK monarch literally removed an Australian Prime Minister (and dissolved the Aus Parliament) in 1975, and still has the power to do it again.
Their ceremonial roles also tend to give them a lot of access to powerful people, and a lot of prestige.
That was the governor-general, who afaik is only nominally under the control of the monarch. To all intents and purposes they are appointed by the prime minister and use their powers independently. I think that's how it works in all of the non-UK countries that have the British monarch as their head of state.
Anyway the current British royals only seem to be interested in using their influence for stupid shit like promoting homeopathy and interfering with random building projects (and protecting their own status and wealth of course).
Good edit. Everytime someone says the queen is just a figure head for our country I scream and scream about Whitlam until they leave me alone forever.
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Yeah, I understand that she's just a rubber stamp, but that's just a threat, you know? Also, the CIA influence is whack as fuck, and we know Charles had some idea about the dismissal (read coup) before it happened.
Sure indirect monetary power. Thanks for clarifying, i was curious about literal "i can make laws and change the course of the country" type power.
Don’t forget the Vatican!
Good point, forgot that it's technically an elective absolute monarchy...over like 500 people.
Hey now don’t sell il Papa short, he’s also the spiritual monarch of over a billion people!
And sure, the overwhelming majority of them just pick and choose whether they feel like listening to anything he says, but they still pay taxes to him so really it’s not much different from the other European royals.