monarchists
Defenders of royalty
Monarchists are advocates for monarchy as a form of government—people who believe political power should be held by a king or queen rather than elected officials.
The term appears in historical contexts discussing transitions from royal to democratic rule, and in contemporary debates where some still argue for restoring abolished monarchies: Monarchists gathered to commemorate the executed tsar.
Supreme independent authority
- autocracyRule by one
- regencySubstitute monarch's authority
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- privy councilSovereign's official consultants
aristocracy · nobility · peerage · feudalism · ancien régime · mandate · rule
Sovereign's ornamental headpiece
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- sovereignSupreme in power
- kingMale crowned ruler
- queenMost powerful chess piece
emperor · empress · tsar · kaiser · sultan · shah · maharaja · coronation
Advocacy for crowned rulers
- divine rightGod-granted ruling authority
- absolutismUnrestricted governmental authority
- constitutionalismGovernance bound by fundamental laws
- traditionalismAdherence to inherited customs
conservatism · reactionary · loyalist · cavalier · counter-revolutionary
Descent from progenitors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- successionFollowing in order
- birthrightEntitlement from origin
primogeniture · genealogy · descent · ancestors · heir · claimant · pretender · House of Windsor
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
privy council · aristocracy · nobility · peerage · feudalism · ancien régime · mandate · rule
crown
Sovereign's ornamental headpiece
queen · emperor · empress · tsar · kaiser · sultan · shah · maharaja · coronation · reign
royalism
Advocacy for crowned rulers
- divine rightGod-granted ruling authority
- absolutismUnrestricted governmental authority
- constitutionalismGovernance bound by fundamental laws
traditionalism · conservatism · reactionary · loyalist · cavalier · counter-revolutionary
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- successionFollowing in order
birthright · primogeniture · genealogy · descent · ancestors · heir · claimant · pretender · House of Windsor · Romanov
loyalty
Faithful commitment to another
- fealtyPledged devotion to authority
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
homage · oath · cavalier · Roundhead · Jacobite · supporter · adherent · partisan · restoration · exile
- Political Factionsconservatives, Republicans, right wing, far right, hard right
- Political Groupsfaction, Republican Party, caucus, Democratic Party, wing
- Royalistsroyalists, royalist, loyalists, kingsman, king's man
- Civil War FactionsReds, Whites, Red Army, White Army, Bolsheviks
- historical figureshistorical figures, leaders, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Joan of Arc
- devoteesdevotee, devotees, adherent, adherents, follower
monarchistsanti-monarchists
Opponents of royal government
democrats · abolitionists · constitutionalists · parliamentarians · populists
monarchistsrevolutionaries
Those seeking systemic overthrow
Jacobins · regicides · Roundheads · abolitionists · radicals
- Fifth MonarchistsEnglish apocalyptic Protestant sect