The King, also called and known as monarch, is the head of state of a country in which the monarchy is the prevailing form of government. This kind of power According to the beliefs that many held in the past, it had a preeminently divine origin and the person who received it had to fulfill this obligation perpetually, that is, until his death or some other force majeure prevented it and its transmission is hereditary..
Because of this divine character that has always surrounded the position of monarch, it is that, since time immemorial, the kings used to inhabit luxurious, enormous and imposing buildings that the people or the plebs, as they liked to call the popular version, built to They, such as palaces and castles and that even today in the 21st century are still the abode of most of the monarchies that persist in the world, such as Buckingham Palace in England or the Royal Palace of Spain.
In the Middle Ages, to solve the costly life of the monarch and his court, what was done was to charge each inhabitant a value for the mere fact of occupying the land that belonged to their "divinity", meanwhile, today and although with another name a little more modern and current, that of tax, citizens who live under a monarchical regime, continue to pay the expenses of their kings through the payment of taxes.
More aggiornated to current times, little was left of the old monarchy that we mentioned at the beginning of the previous paragraph, today it is made known as a parliamentary monarchy, to give an idea that now the thing is not only reduced to the designs and will of a single person with presumed divine power, but nowadays whoever holds the position of king must submit to a constitution and the work of a democratic parliament, carrying out activities closer to those of any head of state anywhere in the world.
Although, as we said above, access to power in a monarchy is only plausible through inheritance, it is not the same in all cases and situations. For example, generally, the first-born male will be the one who occupies the first place in the line of succession, although it is also possible if there is no male first-born, that the first female daughter will succeed him, if allowed, or some another male relative.
