a throne
Examples
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.