Most nominal monarchies that are around today (in the post-American-Constitution era) are only still around because they became effectively republics (I know, the usual definition of ‘republic’ is a country that doesn’t have a monarch, but in this post I was, confusingly, and as I mentioned elsewhere, using an implicit definition of ‘republic’ as “indirect democracy”)
Most nominal monarchies that are around today (in the post-American-Constitution era) are only still around because they became effectively republics (I know, the usual definition of ‘republic’ is a country that doesn’t have a monarch, but in this post I was, confusingly, and as I mentioned elsewhere, using an implicit definition of ‘republic’ as “indirect democracy”)