| A monarch would attempt to arrogate power to himself, as do all the current Middle Eastern kings. |
| Fewer than 10 percent of monarch caterpillars make it to adulthood each year. |
| The bill is then sent to the monarch for royal assent, which is invariably given. |
| However, in June 1548 the young monarch was poisoned by his mother, the queen regent, who then placed her lover Khun Worawongse on the throne. |
| The death means the Queen, who acceded to the throne in 1952, becomes the longest-serving monarch in Europe. |
| In the interests of good government it is essential that the monarch be revered, but not genuinely loved. |
