Though a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, Mohammed VI is applauded by those around him as a thoroughly modern monarch.

The fragrance of a modern monarch.

Despite her being a modern monarch, lots of Spaniards didn't want a girl in charge and so they spent the next seven years fighting to get rid of her.

The modern monarch is not a figure, which is to be unquestioningly revered, and who with a magical touch can cure scrofula (Bloch, 1973).

William Addams Reitwiesner documented many U.S. descendants of Renaissance and modern monarchs.

He thought a modern constitutional monarch to be the embodiment of historical unity and national self-identification.

Henry James, who is one of the modern monarchs of this style, once wrote a novel about furniture, "The Spoils of Poynton."

President Hussein likes to think of himself in regal terms, and what better model for a modern monarch than a people's king?

The emperor's role today is mainly symbolic, not unlike that of a modern European monarch.

Back then, the monarch was a ruler, unlike the modern monarchs who are more like figureheads.