monarch

The short audience is known as "kissing hands" - although in practice, these days male premiers simply bow and shake hands with the monarch after accepting their offer to form a government.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The monarch had broken ground on the project in 2023 and also previously visited in 2020 and in 2022.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Bubaraye Dakolo, the monarch of Ekpetiama kingdom in southern Bayelsa state, had taken the British energy giant to court after it announced conclusion of the sale of its Nigerian onshore assets in March 2025.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

I started raising monarch butterflies because my identical twin sister, who played my twin on the show, planted a butterfly garden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

With every monarch, the palace grew yet more palatial, sprouting vast wings and pavilions like some sort of fantastical beast.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Qatar was a British protectorate until 1971, with the Al Thani family as monarchs since 1851.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The monarchs always seem to find my garden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Raoni, chief of the Kayapo people, has traveled around the world for decades to advocate for the Amazon rainforest and traditional Indigenous communities, lobbying heads of state, monarchs and popes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

It was abandoned after Napoleon’s fall in 1814 and then completed, very slowly, by a series of architects under three different monarchs and several competing agendas.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

The blackened, burned trees eventually gave way to live ponderosa pines, and then to untouched bearclover and white alder, and at last she and Dodger were back among the monarchs again.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz