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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

Canada is the first Commonwealth country to put the King on its banknotes outside of Britain since his ascension to the throne.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Royal Family reserves the Prince of Wales title for the heir apparent to the British throne, in a centuries-old tradition.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Harry reportedly remains estranged from Prince William, his brother and heir to the throne, and William's wife Catherine.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

In 1605, Bellarmine would almost certainly have been elected Pope, but declined to offer himself as a candidate, preferring to be the power behind the throne.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, led a rising in 1745 to win back the thrones of Britain for his father, the exiled James VIII.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

“Recall,” she would say to me, “that you are a prince”; and I began to doubt her reiterations and resent her impostures—the tales of orchid thrones and panther steeds.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.

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

Now little Ronald Campbell was the same who had picked up Earl Kenric's gauntlet on the day of his throning on the Great Plain.

From The Thirsty Sword by Robert Leighton

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

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

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