Naturally, it was the most anachronistic leadership-systems — i.e. the Divine Right autocratic dynasties and their supporting aristocracies — which were the most vulnerable to the blasts of doubt and revolt blowing from the battlefields. A few reigning monarchs — in particular young King Alexander I of Serbia, and Albert I, King of the Belgians — saved the prestige of their dynasties by the way in which they shared the hardships of their subjects, but the Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, and the Romanovs, along with other handicaps, lacked the common touch.
