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The plethora of portraiture was part of Elizabeth’s campaign to both rehabilitate her mother’s image and strengthen her own claims to the throne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

From a young age, William was depicted as the charming, steady heir to the throne, with Harry the wayward but loveably roguish sibling.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

"Having Harry nearby won't change the mood," said a former colleague of the heir to the throne.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Pope Alexander II may therefore have supported William for reasons that went well beyond Harold's disputed claim to the English throne.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

I follow them to a playroom in the back, where there’s a pink fuzzy throne, lime-green chairs, jeweled crowns, Robin Hood hats, and stuffed dinosaurs.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

On Friday Netflix aced out Paramount Skydance and Comcast to win this game of media thrones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Foo Fighters fired its new drummer Josh Freese this year, just two years into his tenure behind one of the most coveted thrones in rock following the death of Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

Many Danish and Norwegian royals also send their children to public schools - and it helps that the three heirs to the Nordic thrones have all married commoners.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

The worst were those who played the game of thrones.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

A hoarder of women, art, antiquities — and most of all, money — Getty also might have taken issue with Portia’s claim that mercy “becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017

So Blatter is seeking to be throned for another four years as Fifa big cheese at the elections to be held in June.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011

The spectacle of John L. Lewis on Organized Labor's pinnacle, throned on Coal and crowned with Steel, is not fantastic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.

From Time Magazine Archive

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

Above their heads the trees met in a brown-and-purple tracery of boughs, and on their right, through the branches, they saw a pale full moon, throning it in a silver sky.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The king and queen, my lady dear, Touching the throning, for my sake Some salutary counsel take.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

In our passage through life we meet scarcely any who do not persist, with a kind of unreasoning obstinacy, in throning the material within them, and there maintaining it supreme.

From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro

How heartily she rained them on the Tuileries and the majesty of the imperial court, throning on high above an abject and trembling people.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola

These kings sought to crown that semi-barbarous occupation of North Italy during two centuries by throning themselves in Rome, and making the Pope their vassal.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies