In other words, the Kingdom exists around us, but cannot be perceived by natural means.

Various British kingdoms existed at some point in the period.

What they found was that the king was gone and the kingdom no longer existed.

This kingdom existed for several centuries before being defeated by the Chinese government.

Some people doubt whether the kingdom existed at all.

Virtually the entire kingdom existed within what is now north and central Henan.

But political kingdoms could not exist by themselves; they needed power structures to underpin them.

I can't really imagine a time when the Kingdom didn't exist, it seems so... substantial.

By 800, some 30 small kingdoms existed in Norway.

Before 1871, in the area where the single state of Germany now exists, different kingdoms and prinicipalities existed.