0 the ceremonial chair of a king, queen etc, pope or bishop -- trůn
The chairs were designed to be used as thrones for the Spanish King or Queen.
He swore allegiance to the throne.
The story of the golden throne with its thirty-two puppets is, like life, both rational and irrational.
But when he gets to the throne and replaces this old king, he puts on the crown and is as cruel as the old king.
The position of a female consort was never stable until she had produced a male heir to the throne.
His only son, a five-year-old boy, was the undisputed heir to the throne.
Faced with political marginalization he acted against the clique who controlled the capital and seized the throne in 1290.
The placement of the potbelly sculpture on top of the pedestal and/or throne would be consistent with a portrayal of rulership.
On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne.
Centuries of tradition dictated that a new monarch would assume the vacant throne, just as centuries of tradition would dictate the limits of his rule.
