Charles Chaplin paintings

Charles Chaplin paintings
Douglas Hofmann paintings
Khouri added that it was "not an automatic thing that monarchies have to disappear." The power of the monarchs in the Middle East is based upon their ability to affect things like education and quality of life, he said.If they could not satisfy their constituents, they would not be in power, he said. "There's a kind of built-in accountability."Going Either WayIronically, monarchies are even gaining popularity in areas of the world that had previously known little but strife.Bulgaria's King Simeon II lost his throne in 1946, but returned to power last year after an adoring public elected him prime minister.Yugoslavia showed an interest in its exiled royal family following years of separatist violence and the downfall of strongman Slobodan Milosevic, now on trial before an international war crimes tribunal.