This form of primogeniture was not practiced by any modern monarchy before 1980.
A total makeover of the government began promptly, on the model of a modern constitutional monarchy.
The Saudis used the flood of cash to transform their country from a tribal state into a modern monarchy.
His reign was short, but he provided a stable bridge between Victoria and the modern monarchy.
In a modern monarchy, the head of state usually has little real power.
It is that the importance of the modern monarchy is not constitutional but exemplary.
You need people who can help you set up a modern constitutional monarchy.
For them he is a prime interpreter of the modern monarchy.
But George also touched many of those themes which have enabled the modern constitutional monarchy to survive and flourish.
In contrast, Bahrain is a relatively modern and progressive constitutional monarchy.