Talk:Regina Rys/@comment-27680174-20171123175731/@comment-3452092-20171209155941

I completely understand why you think King Mother makes more sense. . . on that note in the last chapter they called Constantine King Father, , , which is probably not a concept that comes up almost ever let alone has a name for it, because the king rarely steps down. The whole thing is pretty odd, but I guess that had to make decisions for what they were doing. Personally, if I was going it I would probably just go with the dowager thing. . . except I'm not sure that actually works in this situation since dowager always makes me think of someone losing their spouse and their kid (or other relative) taking over.

I wonder if there are any countries in reality like the planet Naboo where royalty are elected and after a certain period of time they step down. If there are, I want to know what the past royalty are called, but somehow, they seems a difficult system to keep since royalty implies to me a lot more power than maybe it has in some cases. I'm pretty sure the Queen of Naboo had more power than either the Queen of England does at present or the President of the United States of America has ever had. And if someone has absolute power, it's kind of hard to make them step down on schedule. Not impossible if you pick the right person, but if there is nothing to make them step down when you pick the wrong person, it's a lot more difficult.