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The constitution was changed in 1990 to give women the right to inherit the throne, so Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra is in line to be Norway's first female head of state since the 15th Century.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

His son Haakon automatically succeeded him to the throne.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

On the one hand, Darkness’ giant black horns, glowing eyes and claws declare his absolute malice from the moment he appears onscreen, mournfully slumped on a throne.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

But longer-term, the heir to the throne has leverage over his brother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

She stopped an arm's length away and said, “I never introduced myself. Vasilisa Tsarevna, the heir to the throne of Kiev, no matter what my father’s henchmen think.”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

The objects, which include richly embroidered vestments and lavishly sculpted monstrances, Eucharist thrones and sanctuary lamps made of jewel-studded precious metals, are eye-catchingly high Baroque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Foo Fighters fired its new drummer Josh Freese this year, just two years into his tenure behind one of the most coveted thrones in rock following the death of Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

Many Danish and Norwegian royals also send their children to public schools - and it helps that the three heirs to the Nordic thrones have all married commoners.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

Four smaller gold thrones lined up in a row on a lower level.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

A hoarder of women, art, antiquities — and most of all, money — Getty also might have taken issue with Portia’s claim that mercy “becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017

So Blatter is seeking to be throned for another four years as Fifa big cheese at the elections to be held in June.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011

They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spectacle of John L. Lewis on Organized Labor's pinnacle, throned on Coal and crowned with Steel, is not fantastic.

From Time Magazine Archive

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

The king and queen, my lady dear, Touching the throning, for my sake Some salutary counsel take.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

In our passage through life we meet scarcely any who do not persist, with a kind of unreasoning obstinacy, in throning the material within them, and there maintaining it supreme.

From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro

These kings sought to crown that semi-barbarous occupation of North Italy during two centuries by throning themselves in Rome, and making the Pope their vassal.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies

On every side, where'er he came, He heard glad words, their theme the same, As in their joy the gathered folk Of Ráma and the throning spoke.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

Frederic, though great in royal throning, Well may amaze the earth, and heaven, When clothed by thunder and the levin Swerves he before the hero's fanfare.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie