Also most pages end up haunted by a miniature Rommath somewhere

It was very delicate power structures that really only held up due to consensus to do so. Keep the key players happy, and they would let you keep the crown.

If not, well, every monarchy tried to have a contingency for succession crisis.

Yes, in theory, divine right of kings.

In reality, a monarch much more dependent on their cabinet that could at any time suddenly be poisoned or overthrown and their position given over to someone else, usually a relative, who would vastly benefit from a change in power.

Monarchs who ruled with an iron clad control over their nobles and lords were very much not the norm. Storoes of those kings, queens, and emperors who did ridiculous things and couldnt be stopped are such because they were an abnormality.

Especially in more vaguely "eurocentric" works or Arthuriana inspired ones, that *was not* the norm in reality. Nobles held vast amounts of unspoken power- land, servants, their own armies in many cases, the power to cause a monarchy to topple.

The idea of kings or queens doing whatever they wished upon anyone without regard for their nobles and advisors wasn't common. A house of lords could, and very much would, find ways to dispose of problem monarchs if they had enough control or sway, which they often did.

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