Throughout history kings have been given opportunities
to do good and evil on a scale unlike almost anyone else.
When focused on the welfare of their kingdoms, the benefits they could confer on their subjects were immense. When exacting
vengeance from their enemies, the damage the greatest of monarchs could inflict
was almost incalculable. And when they devoted themselves to self-indulgence,
their excesses were the stuff of legends.
Even today, when monarchs are little more
than figureheads, these royal celebs have in their grasp the potential to do
both harm and good far beyond the ordinary man or woman.
“With great power,” as they say …