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19 May 2011, 2:36 am
It is perhaps ironic, that on a week when two women made speeches that represented for many the culmination of a long and painful process of peace-making on this island, others were being prevented from expressing their speech through posters and protests close to Dublin Castle where a state banquet was held to honour the first ever state visit of a British Monarch to the Republic of Ireland. [read post]
16 May 2011, 2:30 pm
Register As the Middle East and North Africa convulse with revolution - with autocrats and monarchs struggling to retain power - we watch and wonder anxiously about what will follow. [read post]
16 May 2011, 12:26 pm
You are convinced that you personally would be better off without a government, because you now have so much power that you can set yourself up in a post-disaster world as a monarch, controlling directly all that remains of the world. [read post]
16 May 2011, 10:00 am
To be individually sovereign one would have to be the monarch of his own independent country somewhere, and there is nowhere left on Earth where anyone can do that.There is a sense in which we are each "sovereign" in the interpretation and application of the law to cases before us, but that power comes with a duty to get it right, by basing decision on the best evidence of what the lawgivers meant in the laws they gave us. [read post]
15 May 2011, 6:25 pm
Last December, the Monarch of the Seas picked up six Cubans who had been at sea for 15 days in a raft consisting of a bunch of tires tied together with a makeshift sail. [read post]
1 May 2011, 7:57 pm
"The King is dead" is the announcement of a monarch who has just died. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 12:29 pm
But the “Queen Wave” is more than the greeting of the monarch to her subjects. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 4:59 am
A couple of years ago, for example, Wills was made an honorary barrister (an elite type of British lawyer who specialises in advocacy), for no other reason than because we liked him that day.Happily, despite Britain’s lack of a written constitution, our monarchs have a strong sense of what’s acceptable; on being made a barrister, a bemused Wills made a sweet speech promising not to practise “except for the odd speeding ticket. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 8:34 am
Another law affecting William and Kate is the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which requires descendants of George II to seek the consent of the monarch to marry. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 4:52 am
The Preamble to the Act states that marriages in the Royal Family are "of the highest importance to the State" and that it is therefore desirable that the reigning Monarch gives consent. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 2:25 pm
These are MONARCHS we’re talking about, the natural ENEMIES of democracy and liberty. [read post]
24 Apr 2011, 5:57 am
Charles II was called "the merry monarch. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 10:10 pm
Obviously, Martin is far from the first fiction writer to focus on the problem of monarchical succession. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 10:52 am
But Spain, having absorbed all that gold and silver from Latin America, still defaulted on its debts in the 16th century; Louis XIV, the sun king whom other monarchs dreamed of emulating, set France on the road to financial ruin; and Britain started the 20th century with a huge empire and piles of overseas assets but was rationing food in peacetime by the late 1940s. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 2:00 pm
Klarberg Monarch Wealth &Business Management AUCTION CHAIRS MATT KLARBERG Monarch Wealth &Business Management ERROL RAPPAPORT Give Kids A Shot! [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 8:44 am
As Parks discusses in some detail, Italian unification involved bringing seven different countries, ruled by seven different monarchs, under the authority of one: the King of Savoy, Victor Emmanuele. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 3:43 pm
When the auction moved from bankruptcy court to behind closed doors, the Monarch group of lenders was in the lead with a $308.1 million bid. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 12:53 pm
Investors such as Carl Icahn, Dish Network, Monarch Alternative Capital and SK Telecom are looking at the assets of Blockbuster in bankruptcy. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 11:22 am
Last year, Monarch Beach assisted the Haiti earthquake victims by raising funds and donating several Shelterboxes. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 11:05 am
I would think in that era that very few knew what the monarchs actually sounded like, and at the end Bertie broadcasts his speech from a private room. [read post]
