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Another royal, UK-based Prince George Desmond Kamurasi, was initially considered for the throne but declined, citing other responsibilities, according to the succession committee.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The late monarch died in August after 35 years on the throne.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The late King Harald, a popular, modernising figure who had been on the Norwegian throne for 35 years, died last month at the age of 89.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Van Persie went on to score 26 times as United reclaimed the throne in Ferguson's final season - the club's 20th title - while Arsenal slipped to a distant fourth.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Instead, I get up from my bed of moss and climb to Throne Rock, two big boulders covered in yellow lichen that grow together in the shape of—you guessed it—a throne.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Warner Bros.’ sale has become the industry’s game of thrones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

On Friday Netflix aced out Paramount Skydance and Comcast to win this game of media thrones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Two thrones also used for props are up for sale.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

Immediately the Cyclopes came forward and made two lines from the thrones to the door—an aisle for me to walk through.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

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

According to the ethics of the day, he was a model citizen, whereas Antony throning as Osiris with a female Mithridates for consort, was as oblivious of Roman dignity as of conjugal faith.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

Don Enrique, returning, told me of it in his room at night, of the Christian service in the mosque and the throning in the Alhambra.

From 1492 by Mary Johnston

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

Above their heads the trees met in a brown-and-purple tracery of boughs, and on their right, through the branches, they saw a pale full moon, throning it in a silver sky.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward