Monarchy


The One (The Selection, #3)
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
Spare
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2)
King's Cage (Red Queen, #3)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
Christopher Hitchens
In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had last noticed when he gave good reviews to the psychokinetic (or whatever) capacities of the Israeli conjuror and fraud Uri Geller. The heir to the throne seems to possess the ability to surround himself—perhaps by some mysterious ultramagnetic force?—with every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer, and water-diviner within range. ...more
Christopher Hitchens

Terry Pratchett
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an ...more
Terry Pratchett, Mort

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