The Royal Mint, official maker of UK coins, has unveiled the sixth coin in its British Monarchs Collection, featuring a remastered portrait of Charles I based on an original coin produced in the 1630s. This is
Monarchies used to rule the world. From the beginning of all human society inMesopotamia4,000 years ago, to the end of theBritish Empirein the mid-20th century, kings and queens controlled the most powerful countries on the globe. From Turkey to Tonga and Japan to Jordan, royal families ha...
or removed from them almost entirely to a symbolic level. Multiple countries exist somewhere along this scale with the most famous being theUnited Kingdom. In the UK, the monarchy technically still has the powers to overrule the government but they are never used due to the principles of democ...
The British monarch is the head of state and nation. Nevertheless, both have separate responsibilities. They are the highest representative of the UK on both national and international agendas. Britain operates under a constitutional monarchy, allowing the monarch to hold status as the kingdom's fi...
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