Influencing their subjects (especially other aristocrats) through their economic power was always important for monarchs, though. The medieval period had lots of weak kings who had substantial trouble bringing the aristocrats under them in line, a lot of the time they weren’t even able to collect taxes at the kingdom-level (in part because you kind of need a money-based economy for that, which was not a given).
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throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThat’s less of a “monarchy” power, more of a “rich people can bribe politicians” power
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lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not wrong but they are rich because they are part of the monarchy and they are very rich. And the meeting between king and Prime Minister is a scheduled thing in the UK