[Cronos]

A calling up a monarch is a rare event in the life of a nation; most modern nations simply do not have a monarch and have nowhere to look for him. A monarchy rises organically and involves a bond that the monarch forms with his people, gradually. It is more like marriage than it is like governing.

Which is precisely the reason it is not there. There are very few, if no monarch currently which has this -- except perhaps the King of Thailand, the Emperor of Japan. the Archduke of luxembourg and the Archduke of Leichtenstein and to some extent the Queen of England (but not Charles...), the King of Belgium. The royalty of Scandanavia or the Netherlands does not have it, the Spanish monarchy to some extent has it as does the Prince of Monaco

[annalex]

Yes. But just like sex education today teaches that marriage is a sex partnership in a shared household, so people of 19-20cc. have been taught that monarchy is about either dictatorship or decoration, but never a familial national bond. Pretty soon wives and husbands won’t be anywhere if we look for them, too.