For some Australians, the monarchy's continuing involvement in politics is a stain on their national pride.
If the monarchy is to survive the current crisis, the king had better make some friends.
Even Spain only became a democratic state after the Monarchy was restored after the Franco regime.
Now look at all those countries in Europe, which got rid of the Monarchy.
In 2010, a man was arrested for an inappropriate Facebook post about the monarchy.
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Such outright criticism of the monarchy, which has become widespread, itself marks a small revolution.
They're like a canopied box in which a member of the monarchy would ride.
Many red shirts favour a reform of the monarchy, to reduce its power and influence.
Mr Hun Sen, however, spurned the idea and his supporters began attacking the monarchy.
Although his legal powers are vestigial, Thais still preserve an exaggerated respect for the monarchy.
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Everything was open to question, and I always saw the monarchy as an anachronism.
It wants the monarchy to be subject to an annual budget, just like government departments.
Thailand's lese majeste laws are intended to protect the monarchy, headed by 85-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Several parties also back a return of the monarchy, which was overthrown by Qaddafi in 1969.
That in turn, has left the monarchy more vulnerable than it has been in a while.
He says he meant no offence to the monarchy and was unaware of the law.
It was a measure of the islands' links with the monarchy stretching back to Queen Victoria.
The other is the likely impact of the princess's death on the standing of the monarchy.
On paper, the monarchy looks pretty safe: support for a republic remains constant at about 20%.
The longer the controversy persists the more likely it is to undermine the monarchy.
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Some Kuwaitis even questioned the monarchy, whose ruling family goes back centuries in this region.
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His most recent case, in 2009, involved a critical essay on the monarchy in an obscure journal.
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But even then, the monarchy the institution rather than the erring royals was portrayed more in sorrow than satire.
But there is one pillar of society over which Mr Thaksin definitely has no influence: the monarchy.
The pomp of the monarchy is a neat way of distracting from this highly questionable constitutional arrangement.
The monarchy is very strong, and the pressure from the streets for a free Morocco is very important.
In Jordan, the government has proposed one reform after another -- without ever curbing the monarchy's true power.
As a revolutionary who overthrew the Libyan monarchy, Gadhafi is said to regard the Saudi monarchy with contempt.
Professor Flint thinks the wedding of two regal twenty-somethings will buttress support for the monarchy among the young.
Behind closed doors, a spirited debate goes on over the fate of the monarchy when the king dies.
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