crowned head

Noun

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a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

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In today's Britain, the idea that there could be a Constitution more powerful - and even sacrosanct - than any crowned head or elected politician (thus abolishing the false antithesis between hereditary monarchs and capricious presidents) is thought of as a breathtakingly new and daring idea. Christopher Hitchens

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