access and the withdrawal of forces from hospitals and essential public facilities. more than a million people have been displaced since the fighting started. now on bbc news, royals reborn with katty kay. washington dc is the heart of the free world. let s go now to capitol hill. i m katty kay, and in more than 20 years here spent here in the news business, i ve grown accustomed to thinking of this as the centre of power. decisions that reverberate around the globe are made here by politicians who proudly championed democracy the rule of the people, by the people. we re here to assess the real meaning of the results. but it s not the only way or necessarily the best. a recent poll shows that of the 15 most successful democracies, nine are monarchies. the founding fathers rejected a king, but many europeans feel a royal family is an asset. i m leaving washington on a royal mission, as the uk has a new king charles iii. i want to find out how other royal families, many of
household in the uk are expected to fall rom july, according to forecasts a new price cap for energy prices will be set next week. now on bbc news, europe s royals revealed royals reborn. washington dc is the heart of the free world. let s go now to capitol hill. i m katty kay, and in more than 20 years here spent here in the news business, i ve grown accustomed to thinking of this as the centre of power. decisions that reverberate around the globe are made here by politicians who proudly championed democracy the rule of the people, by the people. we are here to assess the real meaning of the results. but it s not the only way or necessarily the best. a recent poll shows that of the 15 most successful democracies, nine are monarchies. the founding fathers rejected a king, but many europeans feel a royal family is an asset. i m leaving washington on a royal mission, as the uk has a new king charles iii. i want to find out how other royal families, many of them king cha
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I mean, it s only 250 years. most countries in europe are 2,000 years old cos we go back to the roman empire. i wonder if there s something about the fact that democracy is messy and, in a way, monarchy, god given, absolute, there s a simplicity to it that perhaps appeals to people here. maybe people want more monarchy today? the king and the queen in the old days were the father and the motherfigure of the nation. and we all need, in our cultural mind, a mother and a father to whom we can identify and admire and all that, and i think, on a collective level, it s like that. does monarchy keep us held to the past? is that what monarchy does? well, it keeps the past in us also, all the traditions and the history. dimitri is what majesty is made of. he mightjust be on the radar