Author: Alexis Mantheakis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781479304899
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Alexis Mantheakis, for several years a close friend and spokesman of Athina Onassis' family, takes the reader into the private world of the heiress. The reader will accompany Alexis Mantheakis and Athina to Scorpios, her private island, learn about the bitter father/daughter feud and what really went on and meet her Brazilian husband. Eccentric admirers, court cases, a controversial Brazilian wedding, the reappearance of the deadly Onassis curse after Athina married Doda, the secret of a 12 year-old kidnapped Onassis girl, a hilarious incident with Aristotle Onassis in London's Claridge's Hotel bar, his pranks with a Russian prince who later rose to prominence in the Soviet Politburo, Doda's companion Cibele Dorsa's accusatory and moving suicide letter, the writer's central role in the battle for the Onassis billions and Athina's birthright: it is all here for the first time, and much more.
Athina Onassis in the Eye of the Storm
Author: Alexis Mantheakis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781479304899
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Alexis Mantheakis, for several years a close friend and spokesman of Athina Onassis' family, takes the reader into the private world of the heiress. The reader will accompany Alexis Mantheakis and Athina to Scorpios, her private island, learn about the bitter father/daughter feud and what really went on and meet her Brazilian husband. Eccentric admirers, court cases, a controversial Brazilian wedding, the reappearance of the deadly Onassis curse after Athina married Doda, the secret of a 12 year-old kidnapped Onassis girl, a hilarious incident with Aristotle Onassis in London's Claridge's Hotel bar, his pranks with a Russian prince who later rose to prominence in the Soviet Politburo, Doda's companion Cibele Dorsa's accusatory and moving suicide letter, the writer's central role in the battle for the Onassis billions and Athina's birthright: it is all here for the first time, and much more.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781479304899
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Alexis Mantheakis, for several years a close friend and spokesman of Athina Onassis' family, takes the reader into the private world of the heiress. The reader will accompany Alexis Mantheakis and Athina to Scorpios, her private island, learn about the bitter father/daughter feud and what really went on and meet her Brazilian husband. Eccentric admirers, court cases, a controversial Brazilian wedding, the reappearance of the deadly Onassis curse after Athina married Doda, the secret of a 12 year-old kidnapped Onassis girl, a hilarious incident with Aristotle Onassis in London's Claridge's Hotel bar, his pranks with a Russian prince who later rose to prominence in the Soviet Politburo, Doda's companion Cibele Dorsa's accusatory and moving suicide letter, the writer's central role in the battle for the Onassis billions and Athina's birthright: it is all here for the first time, and much more.
Athina Onassis the Red File
Author: Alexis Mantheakis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781718865280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This shocking tell-all biography of Athina Onassis, the iconic billionaire Greek heiress and patron of the prestigious Athina Onassis Horse Show of St Tropez, and the revelations of an eight and a half year relationship between Doda, Athina's handsome older Brazilian Olympian champion rider husband, and Nicky, a Belgian call girl, exposes what went on in the VIP enclosures of the competition, and unknown to the heiress, at sex clubs, in cars, and in love nests nearby after hours, and at the hotels where her husband's mistress was lodged by her lover on a different floor from the couple.Alexis Mantheakis, the former Onassis-Roussel family spokesman and adviser who first met Athina when she was only 13 has shared holidays with Athina and her family, has been on yachts with her as the only non-family guest, stood for the family in numerous court cases as their only witness, and recently was there for the heiress when she was subjected to a huge alimony claim after she walked out on a faithless Doda. It was then, in the summer of 2016 that the heiress called Alexis to Holland asking him to help secure the file with all the damning emails, messages, photos, hotel and travel receipts and other documents that Nicky, dumped by Doda, had promised to give the writer. The shocking Red File with its contents, was delivered to Athina by her old family friend who now saw that the formerly shy, timid girl he had known had changed into a different person, one that very few know. The final chapter, Cancer Ward, is one of the most shocking conclusions of any celebrity biography.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781718865280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This shocking tell-all biography of Athina Onassis, the iconic billionaire Greek heiress and patron of the prestigious Athina Onassis Horse Show of St Tropez, and the revelations of an eight and a half year relationship between Doda, Athina's handsome older Brazilian Olympian champion rider husband, and Nicky, a Belgian call girl, exposes what went on in the VIP enclosures of the competition, and unknown to the heiress, at sex clubs, in cars, and in love nests nearby after hours, and at the hotels where her husband's mistress was lodged by her lover on a different floor from the couple.Alexis Mantheakis, the former Onassis-Roussel family spokesman and adviser who first met Athina when she was only 13 has shared holidays with Athina and her family, has been on yachts with her as the only non-family guest, stood for the family in numerous court cases as their only witness, and recently was there for the heiress when she was subjected to a huge alimony claim after she walked out on a faithless Doda. It was then, in the summer of 2016 that the heiress called Alexis to Holland asking him to help secure the file with all the damning emails, messages, photos, hotel and travel receipts and other documents that Nicky, dumped by Doda, had promised to give the writer. The shocking Red File with its contents, was delivered to Athina by her old family friend who now saw that the formerly shy, timid girl he had known had changed into a different person, one that very few know. The final chapter, Cancer Ward, is one of the most shocking conclusions of any celebrity biography.
Rebetiko Worlds
Author: Dafni Tragaki
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443804029
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Rebetiko Worlds invites the reader to share the experience of rebetiko music-making in the city of Thessaloniki today. It aims at representing an ethnographic world made of diverse realities united by the melancholic sounds of rebetiko songs. Rather than a musicological account on rebetiko music, this ethnography is about the human encounters happening in certain rebetiko venues of the Ano Poli area in Thessaloniki. How do people perceive, practice, feel and imagine rebetiko song—a music tradition coming from the beginning of the 20th century—today? What are the worldviews embodied and inspired in the context of the ongoing rebetiko performances? And, how may the exploration of rebetiko revivalist culture convey understandings of broader music-cultural orientations defining contemporary Greek society? This ethnography is primarily interested in knowing contemporary rebetiko culture as a ‘lived experience’. It captures instances of the life-worlds of the people involved in the rebetiko revival, which unravel the ways local traditions are re-defined in the context of the nostalgic re-invention of ‘ethnic’ music in postcolonial times. On this level, the representation of the discourses and aesthetics associated with rebetiko performances today instigate further interpretations of local cultural trends, the visions of ‘our’ future triggered by the mythicized representations of ‘our’ past. Beyond a window to the rebetiko worlds of today, this book recounts the story of an ethnographer engaged in fieldwork ‘at home’. It aims at communicating the dynamics of reflexivity shaping the ethnographic self by proposing an understanding of the fieldwork experience as a ‘special ontology’. In this way, it reveals the various dilemmas, moments of enthusiasm and moments of despair lived in the process of research in an attempt to illuminate the poetics of the subjective cultural knowledge. Rebetiko Worlds incites the reader to share the poetics of ethnographic ‘fiction’ and interpretation and, through this, the gradual ‘making’ of the ethnomusicologist in the field.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443804029
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Rebetiko Worlds invites the reader to share the experience of rebetiko music-making in the city of Thessaloniki today. It aims at representing an ethnographic world made of diverse realities united by the melancholic sounds of rebetiko songs. Rather than a musicological account on rebetiko music, this ethnography is about the human encounters happening in certain rebetiko venues of the Ano Poli area in Thessaloniki. How do people perceive, practice, feel and imagine rebetiko song—a music tradition coming from the beginning of the 20th century—today? What are the worldviews embodied and inspired in the context of the ongoing rebetiko performances? And, how may the exploration of rebetiko revivalist culture convey understandings of broader music-cultural orientations defining contemporary Greek society? This ethnography is primarily interested in knowing contemporary rebetiko culture as a ‘lived experience’. It captures instances of the life-worlds of the people involved in the rebetiko revival, which unravel the ways local traditions are re-defined in the context of the nostalgic re-invention of ‘ethnic’ music in postcolonial times. On this level, the representation of the discourses and aesthetics associated with rebetiko performances today instigate further interpretations of local cultural trends, the visions of ‘our’ future triggered by the mythicized representations of ‘our’ past. Beyond a window to the rebetiko worlds of today, this book recounts the story of an ethnographer engaged in fieldwork ‘at home’. It aims at communicating the dynamics of reflexivity shaping the ethnographic self by proposing an understanding of the fieldwork experience as a ‘special ontology’. In this way, it reveals the various dilemmas, moments of enthusiasm and moments of despair lived in the process of research in an attempt to illuminate the poetics of the subjective cultural knowledge. Rebetiko Worlds incites the reader to share the poetics of ethnographic ‘fiction’ and interpretation and, through this, the gradual ‘making’ of the ethnomusicologist in the field.
The House of Gucci
Author: Sara Gay Forden
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062222678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan’s elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his office by an unknown gunman. Two years later, Milan’s chief of police entered the sumptuous palazzo of Maurizio’s ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani—nicknamed “the Black Widow” by the press—and arrested her for the murder. Did Patrizia kill her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because he was preparing to marry his mistress? Or is it possible Patrizia didn’t do it at all? The Gucci story is one of glitz, glamour, and intrigue—a chronicle of the rise, near fall, and subsequent resurgence of a fashion dynasty. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and widely acclaimed, The House of Gucci is a page-turning account of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062222678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan’s elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his office by an unknown gunman. Two years later, Milan’s chief of police entered the sumptuous palazzo of Maurizio’s ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani—nicknamed “the Black Widow” by the press—and arrested her for the murder. Did Patrizia kill her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because he was preparing to marry his mistress? Or is it possible Patrizia didn’t do it at all? The Gucci story is one of glitz, glamour, and intrigue—a chronicle of the rise, near fall, and subsequent resurgence of a fashion dynasty. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and widely acclaimed, The House of Gucci is a page-turning account of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.
Athina: the Last Onassis
Author: Chris Hutchins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781500878412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
BY way of light relief as Greece continues to stand face-to-face with financial meltdown, it is well worth visiting the story of Athina Onassis Roussel, who became the richest little girl in the world when she inherited unimaginable wealth from her heiress mother, Christina Onassis. This compelling book explores the legend of Athina's grandfather, the shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, and examines the legacy that became Athina's extraordinary birthright as The Last Onassis. No 20th-century saga features more great names than that of the Onassis dynasty; the Kennedys - including JFK and his widow Jacqueline, who became Onassis's second wife - the opera diva Maria Callas who longed to be the third; and Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, with whom he fought a celebrated feud for control of Monte Carlo. The cast list is endless: the Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo, the politicians Sir Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon, the tycoons Stavros Niarchos and Howard Hughes and the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Published by Neville Ness House.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781500878412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
BY way of light relief as Greece continues to stand face-to-face with financial meltdown, it is well worth visiting the story of Athina Onassis Roussel, who became the richest little girl in the world when she inherited unimaginable wealth from her heiress mother, Christina Onassis. This compelling book explores the legend of Athina's grandfather, the shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, and examines the legacy that became Athina's extraordinary birthright as The Last Onassis. No 20th-century saga features more great names than that of the Onassis dynasty; the Kennedys - including JFK and his widow Jacqueline, who became Onassis's second wife - the opera diva Maria Callas who longed to be the third; and Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, with whom he fought a celebrated feud for control of Monte Carlo. The cast list is endless: the Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo, the politicians Sir Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon, the tycoons Stavros Niarchos and Howard Hughes and the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Published by Neville Ness House.
Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976
Author: Peter Mackridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019959905X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Peter Mackridge explores the ideological, social, and linguistic causes and effects of the Greek language question in its many and passionate manifestations over two turbulent centuries. He shows the crucial way in which Greek linguistic identities have interacted in the creation of the modern nation since the War of Independence in 1821.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019959905X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Peter Mackridge explores the ideological, social, and linguistic causes and effects of the Greek language question in its many and passionate manifestations over two turbulent centuries. He shows the crucial way in which Greek linguistic identities have interacted in the creation of the modern nation since the War of Independence in 1821.
Greece in the Twentieth Century
Author: Fotini Bellou
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136346597
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This collective study examines the transformation (metamorphosis) that Greece has experienced over the course of the 20th century by exploring its gradual evolution into a consolidated democracy, an advanced economy in the Eurozone and a balanced partner in the EU and NATO promoting a stabilizing role in southeastern Europe. The book examines the variables contributing to the profiling of contemporary Greece, emphasizing the conceptual inertia bedevilling the studies of Greece in recent years by focusing on the elements that indicated the slow pace in the country's modernization. In conclusion, there is a need for Greece's constant commitment to functional adjustments regarding the country's economic, political and strategic priorities in order to promote effectively the role of regional stabilizer acting in concert with NATO and EU partners.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136346597
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This collective study examines the transformation (metamorphosis) that Greece has experienced over the course of the 20th century by exploring its gradual evolution into a consolidated democracy, an advanced economy in the Eurozone and a balanced partner in the EU and NATO promoting a stabilizing role in southeastern Europe. The book examines the variables contributing to the profiling of contemporary Greece, emphasizing the conceptual inertia bedevilling the studies of Greece in recent years by focusing on the elements that indicated the slow pace in the country's modernization. In conclusion, there is a need for Greece's constant commitment to functional adjustments regarding the country's economic, political and strategic priorities in order to promote effectively the role of regional stabilizer acting in concert with NATO and EU partners.
Bloodlines of the Illuminati:
Author: Fritz Springmeier
Publisher: Bloodlines of the Illuminati
ISBN: 9781796271508
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The iLLamanati have emerged from hidden places of the Earth to shed light on the dark side of human endeavors by collating and publishing literature on the secrets of the Illuminati. Representing the Grand Llama, an omniscient, extradimensional light being who is channeled by our Vice-Admiral, Captain Space Kitten, the iLLamanati is organized around a cast of interstellar characters who have arrived on Earth to wage a battle for the light.Bloodlines of the Illuminati was written by Fritz Springmeier. He wrote and self-published it as a public domain .pdf in 1995. This seminal book has been republished as a three-volume set by the iLLamanati.Volume 1 has the first eight of the 13 Top Illuminati bloodlines: Astor, Bundy, Collins, DuPont, Freeman, Kennedy, Li, and Onassis.Volume 2 has the remaining five of the 13 Top Illuminati bloodlines: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Russell, Van Duyn, and Merovingian.Volume 3 has four other prominent Illuminati bloodlines: Disney, Reynolds, McDonald, and Krupps.
Publisher: Bloodlines of the Illuminati
ISBN: 9781796271508
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The iLLamanati have emerged from hidden places of the Earth to shed light on the dark side of human endeavors by collating and publishing literature on the secrets of the Illuminati. Representing the Grand Llama, an omniscient, extradimensional light being who is channeled by our Vice-Admiral, Captain Space Kitten, the iLLamanati is organized around a cast of interstellar characters who have arrived on Earth to wage a battle for the light.Bloodlines of the Illuminati was written by Fritz Springmeier. He wrote and self-published it as a public domain .pdf in 1995. This seminal book has been republished as a three-volume set by the iLLamanati.Volume 1 has the first eight of the 13 Top Illuminati bloodlines: Astor, Bundy, Collins, DuPont, Freeman, Kennedy, Li, and Onassis.Volume 2 has the remaining five of the 13 Top Illuminati bloodlines: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Russell, Van Duyn, and Merovingian.Volume 3 has four other prominent Illuminati bloodlines: Disney, Reynolds, McDonald, and Krupps.
Respublika!: Experiments in the performance of participation and democracy
Author: Nico Carpentier
Publisher: NeMe
ISBN: 9963969585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publication following NeMe's project
Publisher: NeMe
ISBN: 9963969585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publication following NeMe's project
Royals at War
Author: Dylan Howard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510762736
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Reveals Shocking Revelations about Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and the British Royal Family—and the Divisive Rifts Between Them This explosive exposé, Royals at War, takes readers inside a riven Buckingham Palace to provide the definitive account of the unfolding abdication crisis of 2020—dubbed Megxit—during which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, became royal outcasts. Through revealing interviews with royal family insiders, friends, aides, historians, royal watchers, and others with intimate knowledge of The House of Windsor, this tell-all book looks back at the events, motives and crises which led to Harry (sixth in line to the throne) dramatically abandoning his birthright—in a move not seen for nearly a century, when King Edward VIII also gave up the crown for the woman he loved as Europe teetered on the brink of fascism and war. Like Edward and Wallis Simpson, the catalyst for the scandal here is also an ambitious, controversial American woman. Dylan Howard, bestselling author of Diana: Case Solved and Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, charts how Meghan’s relationship with Harry was viewed as controversial from the start—and how her brief honeymoon with the British public began to sour shortly after she and Harry announced in November 2018 that they would be leaving Kensington Palace to move to Frogmore Cottage, an hour outside London. As senior royals expressed disapproval, the public at first seemed to enjoy the royal spat, with many still supporting Team Meghan—until it emerged that the bill to renovate Frogmore Cottage to Meghan’s lavish expectations would be $3 million . . . and be picked up by British taxpayers. Finally, in a move nobody saw coming, Harry announced he was turning his back on the role he had been groomed for since birth—giving up his HRH title, repaying the renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, abandoning his royal duties, and leaving Britain for good. Buckingham Palace reeled. Howard’s unique access and insight into this constitutional crisis will not only address the tensions and tantrums behind closed palace doors, but seek to answer the questions many are still asking: Has Prince Harry ever really recovered from the death of his mother Diana—and the resentment he feels against the institution that tried to destroy her? Why did Meghan, once hailed as a breath of fresh air, rile up the monarchy? Why did she refuse to conform to royal conventions in the way that Catherine did before her? Did the public and media criticism of Meghan go too far? And just how valid are the accusations of racism? How did these modern royals treat the tabloids differently to tradition? And did it backfire? What next for Harry and Meghan? And how will they—and the institution they’ve turned their back on—react to their new lives outside the confines of the Palace and free from the strict codes and conventions that bind all members of the Royal Family? Caught in a trap by virtue of a life entombed in a gilded cage, Royals at War answers these questions and more . . . and reveals how Harry’s infatuation with Meghan and desire to modernize the monarchy could yet end in disaster for the House of Windsor. Played out against the cataclysm of the British tabloid's laser focus on the duchess’ every movement—for good or ill—this is the true story of Harry and Meghan’s split from the Establishment . . . and perhaps just the beginning of a whole new Monarchy, redefined for the modern age.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510762736
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Reveals Shocking Revelations about Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and the British Royal Family—and the Divisive Rifts Between Them This explosive exposé, Royals at War, takes readers inside a riven Buckingham Palace to provide the definitive account of the unfolding abdication crisis of 2020—dubbed Megxit—during which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, became royal outcasts. Through revealing interviews with royal family insiders, friends, aides, historians, royal watchers, and others with intimate knowledge of The House of Windsor, this tell-all book looks back at the events, motives and crises which led to Harry (sixth in line to the throne) dramatically abandoning his birthright—in a move not seen for nearly a century, when King Edward VIII also gave up the crown for the woman he loved as Europe teetered on the brink of fascism and war. Like Edward and Wallis Simpson, the catalyst for the scandal here is also an ambitious, controversial American woman. Dylan Howard, bestselling author of Diana: Case Solved and Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, charts how Meghan’s relationship with Harry was viewed as controversial from the start—and how her brief honeymoon with the British public began to sour shortly after she and Harry announced in November 2018 that they would be leaving Kensington Palace to move to Frogmore Cottage, an hour outside London. As senior royals expressed disapproval, the public at first seemed to enjoy the royal spat, with many still supporting Team Meghan—until it emerged that the bill to renovate Frogmore Cottage to Meghan’s lavish expectations would be $3 million . . . and be picked up by British taxpayers. Finally, in a move nobody saw coming, Harry announced he was turning his back on the role he had been groomed for since birth—giving up his HRH title, repaying the renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, abandoning his royal duties, and leaving Britain for good. Buckingham Palace reeled. Howard’s unique access and insight into this constitutional crisis will not only address the tensions and tantrums behind closed palace doors, but seek to answer the questions many are still asking: Has Prince Harry ever really recovered from the death of his mother Diana—and the resentment he feels against the institution that tried to destroy her? Why did Meghan, once hailed as a breath of fresh air, rile up the monarchy? Why did she refuse to conform to royal conventions in the way that Catherine did before her? Did the public and media criticism of Meghan go too far? And just how valid are the accusations of racism? How did these modern royals treat the tabloids differently to tradition? And did it backfire? What next for Harry and Meghan? And how will they—and the institution they’ve turned their back on—react to their new lives outside the confines of the Palace and free from the strict codes and conventions that bind all members of the Royal Family? Caught in a trap by virtue of a life entombed in a gilded cage, Royals at War answers these questions and more . . . and reveals how Harry’s infatuation with Meghan and desire to modernize the monarchy could yet end in disaster for the House of Windsor. Played out against the cataclysm of the British tabloid's laser focus on the duchess’ every movement—for good or ill—this is the true story of Harry and Meghan’s split from the Establishment . . . and perhaps just the beginning of a whole new Monarchy, redefined for the modern age.