Editing Popular monarchy (section)

{{Short description|Monarchical titles referring to people rather than territories}}
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'''Popular monarchy''' is a term used by [[Kingsley Martin]] (1936) for [[Imperial, royal and noble ranks|monarchical titles]] referring to a people rather than a territory.<ref>{{Citation | title = The Evolution of Popular Monarchy | first = Kingsley | last = Martin | journal = Political Quarterly | volume = 7 | issue = 2 | pages = 155–78 | date = April 1936| doi = 10.1111/j.1467-923X.1936.tb01608.x }}.</ref> 
This was the norm in [[classical antiquity]] and throughout much of the [[Middle Ages]], and such titles were retained in some of the monarchies of 19th- and 20th-century Europe.

During the [[French Revolution]], [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] had to change his title to indicate he was "king of the French" rather than "king of France", paralleling the title of "king of the [[Franks]]" (''rex Francorum'') used in [[medieval France]].

Currently, [[Belgium]] has the only explicit popular monarchy, the formal title of its king being ''King of the Belgians'' rather than ''King of Belgium''.