Happy queens day
How often does a king/queen get crowned?
Depends entirely on the individual King or Queen. Most become Monarch following the death of the previous Monarch, while some are crowned after the previous Monarch abdicates, as was the case with Netherlands today.
Historically though, I think it's actually a rather short reign that Kings/Queens traditionally have. Atleast of the European Monarchs that's true.
But, I suppose on average, most of the monarchs were ancient, or medieval or renaissance, and so they had very short lives naturally (poor hygiene/medical knowledge), and often warred with each other and fought personally in battles.
Queens traditionally live longer, since they never tend to ride into battle. And women have always traditionally lived longer than men.
Averaging, I think it's about 30 to 40 years they can be expected to last.
And if they live a long reign, then their successors are likely to live very short reigns, as a young heir will be old by the time their long-living predecessor dies.
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is currently the UK's second longest reigning monarch, at 60 years (soon 61).
This is quite a long reign, by the standards of most monarchs around the world throughout history.
Queen Victoria reigned for 64 years. That's the longest for any British Monarch aswell as any Female Monarch.
It's a nice and impressive piece of news this.
It's a shame that most other European Monarchs don't get too much limelight internationally, compared to the UK.
They're all exceedingly interesting, I find. I don't personally know enough about the European royal families.
I was surprised at how many European countries do still have a Monarch.
There's
the co-princes of Andorra (Although that's not a proper monarchy),
Belgium,
Denmark,
Luxembourg,
Monaco,
Liechtenstein,
The Netherlands,
Norway,
Spain,
Sweden,
the United Kingdom and by technicality,
Vatican City.
But anyway, I hope the new King has a long and successful reign.
