文档介绍：prehensionPartADirections:,B,.(40points)Text1KingJuanCarlosofSpainonceinsistedkingsdon'tabdicate,-,diestheSpanishcrisissuggestthatmonarchyisseeingitslastdays?DoesthatmeantheunitingisonthewallforallEuropeanroyals,withtheirmagnificentuniformsandmajesticlifestyles?,asitwasfollowingtheendoftheFranceregime,monarchscanriseabove"mere"politicsand"embody",theMiddleEastexpected,Europeisthemostmonarch-infestedregionistheworld,with10kingdoms(notcountingVaticancityandAndorra).ButunliketheirabsolutistcounterpartsintheGulfandAsia,mostroyalfamilieshavesurvivedbecausetheyallowvoterstoavoidthedifficultsearchforanon-,kingsandqueensundoubtedlyhaveadownside,symbolicofnationalunityastheyclaimtobe,theirveryhistory—andsometimesthewaytheybehavetoday-,-jobsandridebicycles,nothorses(orhelicopters).Evenso,thesearewealthyfamilieswhopartywiththeinternational1%,'e,(ifwell-healed)grannystyle.