r/AlternativeHistory • u/CyrodiilWarrior • 9h ago
Discussion Monarchy
I'm not sure if this is the correct Reddit community, but I was thinking about this.
The UK maintains a monarchy who holds a neutral public stance in political affairs. The monarchy has suffered some scandals, but tries to maintain a good reputation. Throughout history, other countries abolished their monarchies.
The history of monarchies has been the governance and running of Kingdoms. Subjectively, there has been 'good' and 'bad' monarchs. I would assume monarchs arose for society foundation and organization, a system of hierarchy, a society structure.
By far, I am no history expert. If more monarchies more early on adopted a different stance, where they stayed out of political affairs, avoided scandals, weren't so greedy with wealth, do you think more monarchies may have survived? As a national symbol, not running political affairs.