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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered and waved Spanish flags around the monument of Charles III, a former King of Spain, during a demonstration in support of the Spanish Monarchy in the landmark Puerta ...

MADRID, April 14, 1931 (UP) -- The ancient throne of Spain fell today to join the other royal houses that have gone down in the post-war debacle, and a Republican government was formed to rule the ...

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 ...

Flanked by his family and before Spain’s Parliament, Felipe VI was formally proclaimed the new King of Spain Thursday, following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos. The new King, clad in ...