Constitutional scholars, editorial boards, and the Monarchist League of Canada have argued against any such constitutional tinkering with the viceregal appointment process, stating that the position being " not elected is an asset, not a handicap ," and that an election would politicize the office, thereby undermining the impartiality necessary to the proper functioning of the governor general.

* The Betrayal of Bulgaria by Gregory Lauder-Frost, Monarchist League Policy Paper, London, 1989.

In the absence of official reports on the full cost of the monarchy, the Monarchist League of Canada regularly issues a survey based on various federal and provincial budgets, expenditures, and estimates ; the 2009 edition found that the institution cost Canadians roughly $ 50 million in 2008.

Canada has two special-interest groups representing the debate, who frequently argue the issue in the media: the Monarchist League of Canada and Citizens for a Canadian Republic.

The International Monarchist League, founded in 1943, which has been very influential in Canada and Australia, has always sought to promote monarchy on the grounds that it strengthens popular liberty, both in a democracy and in a dictatorship, because by definition the monarch is not beholden to politicians.

* Monarchist League of Canada

* Monarchist League, Los Angeles

* Australian Monarchist League

* Monarchist League of New Zealand

* Monarchist League of New Zealand

* The Monarchist League

Australians for Constitutional Monarchy and the Australian Monarchist League argue that no model is better than the present system and argue that the risk and difficulty of changing the constitution is best demonstrated by inability of republicans to back a definitive design.

* The Australian Monarchist League ( Opposed to republicanism )

There is currently a movement to reverse these decisions by the Monarchist League of Canada.

Throughout his tenure as the Canadian viceroy, Hnatyshyn was both defended and criticised by the Monarchist League of Canada.

The AF movement is member of the International Monarchist League.

: See Monarchist League for similar organisations

The International Monarchist League ( known until the mid-1990s as the Monarchist League ) is an organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the monarchical system of government and the principle of monarchy worldwide.

The Monarchist League was founded as a faux-chivalric body in 1943 by the Rev.

Celebrating its Silver Jubilee in 1968, The Monarchist editorial said " in the late 50s and the early 60s a great resurgence took place in the League when negative and passive monarchism was turned into positive and aggressive monarchism.

In February 1979 Lord Nicholas Hervey was elected as President of the International Youth Association of the League, and contributed in the July 1981 edition of The Monarchist an article entitled " The Youth Association Spreading its Wings ".

Major-General Thomas Harrison, who had commanded the troop which aided Oliver Cromwell in dissolving the Rump, suggested that there be a ruling body based upon the Old Testament Sanhedrin of 70 selected " Saints ", which was based on his beliefs, as a Fifth Monarchist, that the rule of the Saints would usher in the reign of Christ on Earth.

The Monarchist right ( supporters of either the Bourbon or Orléanist royal households ) and much of the aristocracy supported him as the " least bad " candidate, as a man who would restore order, end the instability in France which had continued since the overthrow of the monarchy in February and prevent a proto-communist revolution.

The Monarchist League of New Zealand and the Monarchist League of Canada were founded independently of the London-based Monarchist League and had no formal affiliation.

However, the Monarchist League remained in close contact with the Canadian group, and on 11 March 1989, Lord Nicholas Hervey had a long meeting at London's Savoy Hotel with Mr John Aimers, then Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada, in order to examine ways in which the two groups could co-operate more closely.

Although himself a Monarchist ( he would have liked to have seen a Spanish prince on the throne ) he bowed to circumstances and allowed himself to be made president after a civil war the year after his return --- so great had his stint as a senator made his reputation.

Gallico's Austrian background is evident in the book's strong Habsburg Monarchist theme ( the protagonist saves an Austrian Princess, wins her love and takes charge of her young son-who, the book hints, is fated to become the new Habsburg Emperor once the Nazis are driven out of Austria ).

Following his return to Montpellier, Comte soon came to see unbridgeable differences with his Catholic and Monarchist family and set off again for Paris, earning money by small jobs.

The American commander, General William S. Graves, personally disliked the Kolchak government, which he saw as Monarchist and autocratic, a view that was shared by the American President, Woodrow Wilson.

Thomas Harrison, drawing on his Fifth Monarchist beliefs, argued that their duty was to accelerate the coming of the kingdom of Christ by putting power into the hands of godly men.

These criticisms were seen to be summed up by one of its members, Praise-God Barebone, a leather seller, Fifth Monarchist and lay preacher from Fleet Street in London.

In March 2002 a company limited by guarantee was formed, The Monarchist Movement Trust Limited, of which Walker is Company Secretary and a director.

* Monarchist League Newsletter ( A4 ) quarterly, edited by Gregory Lauder-Frost ( October 1987-December 1992 incl.

* China-The Last Years of Empire by Gregory Lauder-Frost, Monarchist League Review Paper, London, June 1992.

( This followed on from the essay " China " by the same author in The Monarchist League Newsletter January 1992.

The Monarchist League complained the majority of members of the select committee were motivated by a " republican agenda ".

* A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer mentions the song often, in quotes and as the party anthem of the Monarchist party in Aravis.

The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League is an anti-communist organization that was established in 1993 by its first President Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Chánh, a self-claimed member of the Vietnamese royal family who fled from Vietnam for political reasons after 1975.

As a member of the ' fifth Monarchist congregation ' in London, led by John Simpson, during the early 1650s, he supported Oliver Cromwell in the establishment of the Protectorate and was elected MP for Sandwich in Kent for the First Protectorate Parliament, and was appointed the Major-General for Surrey and Kent during the Rule of the Major-Generals.

After the Restoration, there was a Fifth Monarchist uprising in London by Thomas Venner in January 1661.

A number of black-hundredist organizations were formed during and after the Russian Revolution of 1905, such as " Soyuz russkovo naroda " ( Союз русского народа, or Union of the Russian People ) in St. petersburg, " Soyuz russkikh lyudey " ( Союз русских людей, or Union of the Russians ), " Russkaya monarkhicheskaya partiya " ( Русская монархическая партия, or Russian Monarchist Party ) and " Obshchestvo aktivnoy bor ' by s revolyutsiyey " ( Общество активной борьбы с революцией, or Society of Active Struggle Against Revolution ) in Moscow, " Belyy dvuglavyy oryol " ( Белый двуглавый орёл, or White Two-headed Eagle ) in Odessa and others.

The Monarchist League defended a private memo written by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales in November 2004, in which he stated " What is wrong with people nowadays?

He was supported by the Democratic Alliance, a centre-right coalition comprising the Social Democratic Party the Democratic Social Center, and the smaller People's Monarchist Party.

" The position of the Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna as Head of the Imperial House is acknowledged by most serious Russian Monarchist organizations and by most of those Heads of Royal Houses which continue to maintain relations with the Imperial House.