... as a consultative body, law and legislation, rise of personal monarchy, the privy council, officers and departments, traditional local government, new powers in the localities, nobility, government and elites in the Highlands, government and people, and whether there was a Stewart revolution in government. England...

.... The rise of parliament was paralleled by the rise of a more powerful personal monarchy, in which the crown began to do more things using the royal prerogative, and even to exclude parliament from certain areas. The possibility of sustained conflict between crown and parliament began to arise...

...This chapter discusses the decline of personal monarchy, which was in part a personal decline. George III himself was decaying after his attack of madness in 1788. His continued interference with military organization showed that he had by no means lost his command of detail; and the crises of 1801...

... on the doings of kings and princes. In an emergently absolutist personal monarchy and during a period in which issues of succession and legitimacy were much on people's minds, plays that were so insistently about kings and queens were also quintessentially political plays. As a great deal of recent work has...