Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), course: The British Monarchy on Stage and Screen, language: English, abstract: This essay aims to observe and explain monarchical principles, their manifestation, as well as the change they underwent throughout different epoques. Monarchical principles are the underlying assumptions of a monarch's reign. Since there are distinctive governmental forms of a monarchy, they differ from each other in several aspects.