king david and king solomon autos role models everything he does is done in the name of the lord. panny at a guess a regnant through maynard keynes reign. the corner kind of this crown and the imperial honor gave the emperor of primacy over all the other kings in europe and who was more honor but not greater power all the holy roman emperors wore this crown until eighteen zero six with his highly were pushed by she's. a and from now on empire was part of german history sometimes as a unifying force between the german nobility pushing for autonomy sometimes as a trigger for war and division but the notion of empire united the germans across borders and religion after the end of the holy roman empire of the german nation in the early nineteenth century. mythical notion of empire was revived in eight hundred seventy one in the second empire of the kaiser's. it was third highest tried to appropriate the regalia for itself but in the end germany faced the mockery of the victorious allies. the ruler from the saxon nobility was now king of the germans king of italy and holy roman emperor

the king, however, thought differently. one of the guys said in the audience said how do you know what the king thought? that wasn't the first question, but it was a good question. the king believe the american colonies would at some point, sooner rather than later instead of being willing partners of the british, they would become independent and competitors and more powerful in the caribbean islands that belong to the british would inevitably join them in the two countries would be competitors rather than part of one great empire. this is the basic disagreement that brought the war, two different visions of what the future was going to look like. since the king at this point in british history, he was very powerful and ran the government, he had his way. that is what the troops are doing in boston. from the point of view of the americans, they had a very good idea. the founding fathers, the patriots, the people organizing the resistance say the very good idea of what the king really meant. what he meant was that he was go

the ruler from the saxon nobility was now king of the germans king of italy and holy roman emperor. he was called the darling of the world and the head of the whole globe. i am i am his challenges grew with his empire. otto felt drawn to italy the saxon and his warriors like the south. otto and his entourage spent ten years in italy where they had to assert themselves against powerful opponents against italian princes byzantines and arabs. are and the long absence from the land of his birth was seen as the king since. it was said that his kingdom had been off and that's the price he paid for a european empire that was also contested by the byzantine empire in the southeast . since auto cannot defeat by santi i'm he seeks to create peace through marriage. his son was to marry a byzantine princess but the plan didn't go all together smoothly. until you were promised the empress daughter. instead they want to force the distant relative from the house she. she is not born in the purple that is followed. do you like her. she isn't worthy of any. send the bastard back. the emperor wanted

the king gave the pres. land and weapons he also had grain stored so that his subjects could withstand longer sieges. half. half. the ramparts of that saxon force all still visible today but back then they were not enough to prevent the my gallant's from invading the kingdom. because all to move from place to place some of his subjects would have seen him and spoken to him. one obviously. where this war. on scott fundamental a book equal. father you are a militia young if only that the video land we don't know what i'll be wearing get me off and get one movie. free for young war. really we'll on the gun mean. evoke winning three crafted gun gun you got as nominee. how do we know what language the people spoke back then were the tribes in autos kingdom able to understand each other. the monastic library of design gallon in switzerland contains many treasures from the early middle ages manuscripts provide insight into how the germans communicated back then the oldest book in the german language was written by

is not really a biography of king or a book about king himself. and certainly not about the manhunt to catch him or any sort of suspense driven account ike that. it's more about how people experience this moment how it impacts did them and also, how this moment impacted america's larger history where i think this event acted as a sort of tipping point in our nation's history and really helps to do any last dreams. for multiracial america. we have a brief biographical sketch about me. it is my third book about civil rights. i wrote one on the south and one on the north. on this book i wanted to focus on one event that i could look all around the country and even all around the world. and how they grapple with that one event. it's also in a way it's a book that has been 20 years in the making. i first visited memphis 20 years ago in 1990 when i was entering my senior year in college. i was going to do a senior thesis on the 1968 strike in memphis. that's why king was in memphis. he was there assisting the sanitation workers who were on strike. and s

the book "chasing king's killer" is about the death of martin luther king jr. and his assassin james earl ray. the author james swanson was interviewed by "associated press" writer jesse holland. >> host: this is an absolutely fabulous book especially now that we are coming up on the 50th anniversary of the

king was about.e wasn't just about the gods he knew's footage that you look at with him standing up in front of the lincoln memorial and delivered a speech about i have a dream was really about economic justice the movement continues. for poor people for working people it is one that will not stop until there is justice that rolls pulls down like water. and righteousness like a mighty street. this is being broadcast if you could come to one of the microphones. wheelchair to take it from there. you can step to the microphone i was previously introduced but go ahead sir. for my knowledge could you introduce yourself i forgot my hearing aids tonight. my name is rodney strong. i'm from memphis tennessee originally i'm an attorney here in atlanta georgia i work on issues associated with minority business disparity diversity supplier diversity economic justice and those kinds of things. i've missed a great deal. i'm thrilled to be a part of this experience. i wanted to ask if there was any information abou

the book "chasing king's killer" is about the death of martin luther king jr. and his assassin james earl ray. the author james swanson was interviewed by "associated press" writer jesse holland. >> host: this is an absolutely fabulous book especially now that we are coming up on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dark to martin luther king, jr.. why now? why is this a subject that we need to talk about now, james earl ray? >> guest: first of all it's a book i've always wanted to write remember when he came to chicago in 1956. i remember his assassination and i remember so vividly that my father the day after dr. king's prayer he came home early from work. i said where you home? he said my employee lives in the south and west side of chicago. they are going home to protect their houses and their families. he drove me to the neighborhoods it's a story i've lived with since i was a child and i knew the anniversary is coming up. i think it's an important occasion and it's really the climax of a trilogy of books i'd done on assassinations in american life

king. and he believed that north america and the english settlements in north america would expand throughout this great continent, however big it was, all the way to the south sea. and england would have something like no other empire had in the world ever in world history. it was an enormous, wonderful vision that he had. this is what he, this is what he wanted. now, how did he get from there to lexington and concord. he got there because he felt that the 13 colonies in america were standing in his way in an odd way. william pitt's attitude was just make them partners in this whole grand enterprise. they love you, they've shown in every way that they want to be part of this wonderful, big enterprise. why not go along with them? it made good sense, what pitt was saying. the king, however, saw is it differently. saw it differently. he said or he thought -- i gave this talk a little while ago, and the guy said, one of the audience said that how do you know what the king thought. [laughter] t

king and you feel good that you would of never would've never had surveilled dr. king. it's urgent, it's extreme. the kind of language they used against king they use now. these are the real demagogues. i think there is this another place where there is awareness of how we went astray and yet the ways that we grapple with going astray i think it just leads to a further distance between the tactics we use today and of course now we have this discussion of the term that they are using now. the black identity extremist. this is an incredible book. you clearly wrote it for the norm he spirit is not written for an elite group of people. this group is totally accessible which is awesome coming from such an extent -- esteemed academic. we will open it up now for questions. if you have a comment try to make it brief. we will just go side to side. we've a microphone coming your way you'd escape me an opening. i wonder if you could talk about some of what you been talking about about liberalism in criminalizing people who are more radical in terms of the standpoint of building up

model the king. and the rebel stand facing each other irreconcilable there are no germans yet just friends and saxons. when v. to kill the saxon leader finally has himself baptized the frankish king chose is one step closer to his great goal a christian empire in the west which would make him chose the great all charlemagne . hammer and. a sacred place somewhere in the saxon forests a holy place of the old gym anik religion. for the pagan saxons humans so it is the column that connects heaven and earth the gods with humankind. it's the place where the saxon priests communicate with voters and sex not the priests know the ancient spells that can heal people and animals. and there for the gods wish it the healing is a success. they sell germanic world is threatened on a summer's day in seven hundred seventy two from this day on nothing will be the same again and that includes the lives of the saxon noble reader who can't meaning first child and his friend anil. quite those are also hoops. a young frank

and how over the reputation of the great frankish king for centuries. there are four thousand five hundred stones in fadden to commemorate the event they were put there in one thousand nine hundred thirty five in the spirit of the times . as a group bought from belgium a bit like a bloodbath of faired and drew criticism even among contemporary patella tared called it also for it was very brutal of them and if you put yourself in charlemagne's shoes you see he was desperate because of the ongoing saxon resistance op this is long and hard and maybe this was his last resort to force a victory so let's this nuclear can be used in a fork swing. not even women and children was spared the incredible rage of the frankish king. his own quote scribes were port charles had all the saxons living on the other side of the ever including women and children brought to the land of the franks. there but i must get going and nobody stays behind her and move. it was a full screen location to allow charlemagne to secure his room. tens of thousands of saxons were robbed of t

king. on the opposite side of the country, james baldwin sat by a swimming pool with the actor billy williams, the phone rang and the phone told him of another tragedy in memphis it took a while before the sound of his voice, i don't mean to sound of his voice but something in his voice got throughce to me. at first she felt numb and then an unbelieving wonder overtook him. he went briefly and finally succumb to a shock. finally that would remain a blur in his memory. he wrote it is retiring in my mind. in blacksburg virginia, hundreds of college students packed an auditorium to watch the senator strom thurmond, the longtime segregationist from south carolina debate harry golden. and he was quite a character. he was a liberal and jewish american who lived in north carolina and founded this newspaper of political satire called the carolina israelite said heg was debating on the night of martin luther king's death. and this was in blacksburg virginia. they d interrupted the debate to inform t

king had lived.his work in chicago had been somewhat disappointed and i think it's probable there was a gathering in washington. i haven't been doing that well. there is one other element they were bringing people of many ethnic and different racial backgrounds back together to try to unify them for the purpose of protest and some kind of coherent message that they were going to deliver to congress. good african-americans and the people of puerto rican background you have white people from appalachia so the idea that you can combine all of these different ethnic backgrounds into one unified message was another challenge they face. i am interested in a civil rights question. you get into all of the dimensions of him as a human. as a writer what would you say would be a moment where you felt the most personal connection to king i think i would say that one i can't that while i can understand his courage i think it's towards the end of the speech you see his courage facing death and coming to terms with

kissing the hem of the king's government is meant to bring good luck babar us or is also in a magic king moving from palace to palace like his predecessors there is no actual center of power. in the house and palace on the conceit river not far from modern frankfurt barbarossa had it built the red sandstone ruins are evidence of a once magnificent council come. pound that combined a courtroom royal court and accommodation under one roof among the traces the royal builder left behind we can also find his heraldic beast the eagle. eyed lark by the rats in their antique guns at sites the eagle was already the symbol for a world ruled during the empire when the bubble was a dial gunstock a barber also who made great use of ancient symbols and traditions from the roman empire took it up and it has been a symbol of the holy roman empire ever since sides yet dustin born in disguise atones. own reconstruction reveals the ideal imperial palace it symbolized the very idea of empire architecturally. the end the ground floor the floor the subjects it's the supporting foundation for the rule of the i

i want to be the king of cash. >> which one is it? king of debtor the king of cash? according to a new piece in "the washington post," the latter. the piece revealing, quote, in the nine years before he ran for president, donald trump's company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties including 14 transactions paid in full without bow rowing from banks. the piece notes the biggest cash bi binge before trump announced running for president when he paid almost $80 million for

and emperor even though the duke's elect the king the empress still wants to get a king from his own house on a trend he wants the world to see that the house of hones dolphin is destined to rule. at the diet of mines the medieval dream of empire things that. i. bought dot clouds are gathering. at twilight on holy ritson a strong wind came from the west and caused many buildings to collapse like the divine power i had. signaled was not taken as a good sign. these are the words of the chronicler auto of santa clause in a devastating storm causes the backdrops of the diet to collapse many had killed or injured a bad omen say many and indeed it's the beginning of the end. the end. nothing at. age sixty seven barbarossa sets off on a crusade to jerusalem whether christian west and islam both have their sacred sites old or the city is under muslim rule. but the am pro will never get that. he drowns in a referendum at least and never reaches the holy land a tool so in the end what has he achieved the end they don't care i don't think the balance sheet looks too good he ultimately had to ad

king. dr.ch received the nobel peace prize in 1950 for brokering the peace agreement between israel and palestine. dr. king received is in 1954. but my mother finished high school in washington, d.c., and during her high school years she lived two doors down from dr. bunch, and my mother and his daughter were best friends in high school. so there was a connection. joan bunch called it was one day and said, is martin luther king, jr. living in your home? and my mother said yes. and she said, my father wants very much to come and talk to him about this upcoming march. and my mother assured her that if dr. bunch came to selma, she and my father would take excellent care of him pick so the trip was planned. my father went to birmingham, picked dr. bunch up at the train station and brought him here. dr. bunch, of course, spent his life negotiating and standing for peace for people not on in this country but around the world. he and dr. king shared similar goals, similar wishes for people in the unit

never again would a saxon dead to go against him the king of the franks. on charles's orders thousands of captives saxons are executed frankish chronic close would later claim that more than four and a half thousand men died by the sword on this day. the water in the ran red with the victim's blood. it was an act that caused a shadow over the reputation of the great frankish king first century. because. there are four thousand five hundred stones in fadden to commemorate the event they were put there in one thousand nine hundred thirty five in the spirit of the times . that's a group bought from belgium a bit like a bloodbath of faired and drew criticism even among contemporaries pituitary with their collar also for it was very brutal of them and if you put yourself in charlemagne's shoes you see he was desperate because of the ongoing saxon resistance op this is long and maybe this was his last resort to force victory let's this material be sentenced on the an awful thing. not even women and children was spared the incredible rage of the frankish king. hi

coretta king went on end. his legacy and continued to work for labor f rights and women's rights, things he would have done if he had lived. this is with coretta scott king helping the movement and cesar chavez. the movement has gone on and it is much more about unions and organized workers as well as civil right and this is where i am an antiwa in the antiwar movt detroit's defense protests going to jail in kentucky i followed cain down into the south and since i got there was put in jail like everybody else. this is the jail i was in for three weeks in kentucky. that's a whole another story. this is memphis. this is the picket lines, rodney is probably in the back somewhere there. this picture ends up in my fbi file because they took and gave it to the fbi. i didn't know until this new book came out. the memphis five and others said the struggle went on. we also think one of the myths is that when king died things ended were actually no, they accelerated and all around the south in the country they certainly

king. said mrs. king dr. king i think has been shot in the shoulder i think. saw. >> his wife has notified tonight it told he had been shot in the shoulder to spare her further concern and alarm as she flew back to memphis. whether she has arrived or not we have not been advised. >> do they know about martin luther king. >> that is the night that robert kennedy gave what is one of the more remarkable speeches any politician has given. >> ladies and gentlemen i have some very sad news for all of you and i think for all of of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that martin lurpgt king was shot and killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> tennessee was on fire. >> washington would be ch chicago, detroit, boston, new york thp these are you a few of the cities in which the negro anguish was expressed in violent destruction. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for my parents' generation, king was the dream. and then he is gone. they were mourning the loss of the man but also what he represented for them and what they hoped he would be able to achi

king, dr.ambassador young, you know, they never lived their days and their lives thinking about the dangers. they lived their days and their lives with hope and with dreams about making this country a more just nation. same with my parents. yes, there were dangers every day at every window, around every corner. but again, the shared hope and the dreams of making selma and this nation a place of peace and prosperity overruled fear. the world was quite literally -- he had the world on his shoulders, and if i had only known what this man was committed to doing and how much he had on his shoulders, i probably one day would not have tugged at his pant leg and begged him to have tea and mud cakes with me. and he stopped, because my mother was going to intercede and pull me away, and he stopped and he looked at my mother and he looked at me, and he said i must have tea and mud cakes with the baby, and he did. and for about 45 minutes we sat in the living room. and as reported, the questions -- as a re

of kings casbah. and. making them influential patrons of the city who knows that their remains have been looted from a long body they helped the city on the run flourish pilgrims gave lots of money while citizen like cologne grow others are still to be founded. the area the land was given the duchy of bavaria by his cousin frederick barbarossa lang down markings on a green field he decides to found a market town called moon mission which means at the house of the monks i am i in henry wants to go down in history as the founder of a city three centuries later the capital of the duchy of bavaria would have a population of more than thirteen thousand the age when it became a center for trade calmness and culture one of the great city is north of the alps i am. eh and after the second world war it became the capital of a self-styled free state that has remained to kill a genocide its autonomy henry the land has monuments erected to himself in northern germany to heal is the foundations for us it is such a

empire needs holy kings. baba rasa has the relics of the magi taken to cologne this attracts pilgrims to the city who were later denied a lot of money from monumental construction project cologne cathedral. and no tradition was only revived at the start of the twenty first century the cathedral pilgrimage to the shrine of the magi it's one of the most significant pieces of the high and medieval goldsmith's odd containing the mortal remains of those who saw the king of kings casbah measure and bow thousand making them influential patrons of the city who knows that their remains have been looted from a long body they helped the city on the rhine flourish pilgrims gave lots of money while cities like cologne grow others are still to be founded. the area the land was given the duchy of bavaria by his cousin frederick barbarossa lang down markings on a green field he decides to found a market town called me mission which means at the house of the monks i am i in henry wants to go down in history as the founder of

he was a future king of botswa na. uproar. he was a future king of botswana.liams was a secretary from britain. both countries opposed the union. he was exiled and forced to renounce his throne. ruth's sister, murillo went sanderson introduced the couple. throne. ruth's sister, murillo went sanderson introduced the couplelj never sanderson introduced the couple.” never met an african until i went to this london missionary society conference in 19116 and i was only 24. i conference in 1946 and i was only 24. i went out to dinner and at the table there he was. he was the average her as chief of the tribe which is like a king. we became very good friends, and are used to go up every saturday night. my sister, ruth, did not have anything to do on saturday nights and i asked her if she would like to come up with me. we met through my sister. they used to have weakened things for african students. it clicked from the word go. you get this attraction and it's impossible to describe, but it's just there. we discovered we like to think about music. people like the righ

king: god bless you.ities to her recently traveled to selma, alabama to earn -- learn more about its history. learn more about this on our tor at c-span.org/cities her. you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> next on american history tv, author gregory fontenot discusses his book, "the 1st infantry division and the u.s. army transformed: road to victory in desert storm, 1970 to 1991." colonel fontenot, a tank battalion commander during the 1991 gulf war focuses on the changes the division went through after the vietnam war and how those innovations helped them in gauge and defeat at least a dozen iraqi divisions during "operation desert storm." the kansas city public library posted --

the monarchy. >> he didn't expect to be king, he didn't want to be king, he had a stutter. he wasn't the man who had been groomed to be king. he was the spare to the heir. >> 10-year-old princess elizabeth, a care-free girl who loves horses, is now heir-apparent to an empire that rules over nearly a quarter of the world. >> the queen has always been very, very aware of the fact that her uncle abdicated responsibility and the impact that had on her father. and she absolutely refers back to that constantly. >> she became the focus of world attention. a small girl who had looked to be a fairy tale princess that was also going to be part of history. >>> coming up -- >> she went up a tree as princess elizabeth and came down as queen. didn't believe it. again. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪ i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ♪ ooh i'm not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and! ♪ we'll make heaven a place on earth ♪ yeah! oh, my angels! ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ [ sobs quietly ] ♪ ooh, he

we will also hearfrom a european king who lost his crown.out how princess diana used her position to change social attitudes. but first, russia, and one of the defining moments of the 20th century — the russian revolution and the overthrow of the last tsar. princess 0lga romanoff is the great niece of tsar nicolas ii. she spoke to witness about his death and eventual reburial. newsreader: following the priests and the nobles, tsar nicolas of imperial russia with his wife and children. one day, all to find death in a bullet—swept cellar. my grandmother, kasenia, was nicolas ii sister. and my father was nicholas ii's eldest nephew. they called him uncle nicky. nicolas adored him and they went on manoeuvres together and did everything together and travelled a lot with the tsar and the tsarina and was very close to the girls, as there was one the same age as him and they used to play together and have rollerblade races and cycle races and pony races up and down the palaces. the russian territories were vast and they were incredibly powerful. als

king's death.here was a perception that harlem might rise, and we did have a lot of community support. and so, the reason this lasted for seven days was because nobody wanted to arrest the black students, and, subsequently, that meant they couldn't arrest white students. so, our role was pivotal, though ignored historically and journalistically. amy goodman: nancy biberman, describe what you were doing there that day, april 23rd, 196868. nancy biberman: so, at noon, we all gathered at the sundial in the middle of the college campus, and there was a rally. and the rally was about, you know, the ongoing anger at the war in vietnam and, in particular, our university's affiliation with reseaearch for the war. and we were also very much aware, as ray said, dr. king had just died. you know, we werehad been assassinated.. you know, we were all in the streets, and i think everyone was in high-tension mode. and, you know, what we were able to focus oni mean, symbols are as important as facts sometimes, and

was the king the vast to abandon the sinking ship what was it that wrecked. is that the glorious dynasty that ruled the city state was lost in the mists of time. to call so i. take football personally. i'm not their edition that's all yours will come preview this week's group. will generally have legions of fellow praising and lives you seem is eager to win the title for gemini once again but first they have to get tough these guys. next. i care. about. superman. superfood. dog like come on don't let those. lifestyle your. sixteen years. ago the lead looking for the white child glen brown this straight you know but beyond the trouble with your favorite team but. look to the gut feelings when going to church get your culpability in the entire country championing a free country and for the last sixty years. for minds. global inequality means. what equality means in a connected well. when a difference a disadvantage is. something to listen strongly. to the media. join the discussion and how you're saying. global media forms twenty eight plate speech. with differ

but people like doctor king. so, i think that there is a need for looking at that and it's hard to know how to do that in the midst of what feels like fire everywhere and it feels like it gets worse and worse so i think it's hard because of the exceptional is so mesmerizing in this moment and the administration continues to do things that you can't believe they would do it and it gets worse and worse but there is a danger in terms of kind of also not looking at ourselves and the assumptions we make about what struggle looks like and what movements look like. >> talk about the role or the way that various moments in the civil rights movement and figures were covered in the media as one of the most fascinating parts of the narrative. i was recently watching footage of martin luther king when he was on meet the press and i was moved to go back and look at it because they played the clip of him saying we have martin luther king on the show but if you watch the interview it was a panel of white journalists basically t

honest warrior has died a hero's death and for a woman the beautiful house wife of many lives king of my scene a in present day. helen had been abducted by pirates son of king priam of troy on the other side of the straits in asia minor in the end troy was defeated and have best. love hatred revenge. homer's iliad was the first great at the world literature since then ancient greece has been regarded as the cradle of western civilization. according to houma from troy you can see the jian island. today it's called the odd belongs to turkey. merchant and military vessels will cool sure in a bay protected from the wind one day bishop but everything is exactly as homer described. troll archaeology is mound of destiny. for nearly one hundred fifty years and scientists and treasure hunters have been drawn to the dot and els in search of traces of the ancient city describing home as . a present of the eighties scientists on their assistance from germany the united states and turkey are at work in a labyrinth of foundations and fortifications from free millenia they're all convinced that troy

edgar hoover was carrying around information that was incriminating about king and yet king and the kennedys in the public mind, much of white america thought that they were working in cahoots. and so king could effectively have sort of derailed the rest of the kennedy's programs. so the kennedys had to be very, very careful about them, about martin luther king, and if there were allegations that martin luther king was hanging around with communists, the kennedys had to do their best to drive a wedge between those two parties. and they did. and they authorized the wiretaps and they kept their distance from martin luther king. >> you asked a question what would have happened had they both not been assassinated. what's your theory? >> my theory is it's very hard to tell because there remained great barriers between the two of them, they didn't particularly like or trust one another. they admired each other but they were awkward with one another. martin luther king was also in a way by 19 of -- 1968 damaged merchandise. he was getting it from black traditionalists and black radicals. it's uncle

malcolm x made martin luther king look good. and that is why the power structure made concessions to him. they were not moved by, oh, there's terrible injustice in the country, but there is disorder and there is disorder -- there is a crisis and we need to do something about it. the irony of history is that, despite the civil rights movement, the city still burned in 1967 anyway. because the civil rights act of 1964 was too little, too late, and if this had been an honorable country, it is what we would have done in 1945. >> in the case of mexico, it is very important that the 1968 or the post-1968 student massacre and the state crime that was committed developed a culture of human rights in mexico and the violation of human rights. i would say that is one of the most important aspects of these fights through nonviolent strategies and tactics. what i mentioned before, the mother activism we have in latin america, it happened in mexico. it happened in argentina. it happened in other regions of central america, like el salvador. b

now the ex—king must decide how to lead his people again.cal title of king, to be able to be more useful. to me, it was something which was against everything i had been taught over the years, that the king wouldn't meddle in direct politics. so that was one thing which cost me personally a lot of sleepless nights. to my father's generation, for centuries, people only had married within these families. my generation on, people started marrying persons who were outside the royalfamilies, but this in itself shows that the monarchy isn't something stale, stuck and back in history. my view is, having worn both hats, i couldn't say that there is one single system which is the best, but certainly the monarchy is something much more flexible than a politician, which i have been, works with sort of four years' term or five years' term. the king is actually with a generation, so you think 25 years ahead roughly. i think the more people get a little bit upset with their politicians, the more monarchy has function. i think it's a pretty fair system. i'