When Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and King Albert II of Belgium abdicated last year, royal succession went on more or less according to procedure, without any large-scale demands for abolishing ...

MADRID—Thousands of Spaniards gathered Monday evening in a central Madrid plaza to demand a referendum on the future of the monarchy. The protesters, waving the red, yellow and purple striped flag of ...

Spain's King Juan Carlos abdicated the throne to his son, Prince Felipe, on Monday "to make way for the new generation," Reuters reported. Now, thousands are turning out in cities across Spain to call ...

How many radical democrats does it take to change the Spanish constitution? A political party fed up with their country’s dominant politicians and bankers calls itself ‘We Can’ — Podemos. It formed ...

The crown sat on a chair, the women were hatless, and priests did not preside. Three big differences between the fabulous and religious rituals of, say, a British coronation, and the low-key swearing ...