Puppet monarch

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Figurehead monarch, as source of legitimity and possibly divine reign, has been the used form of government in several situations and places of history.

There are two basic forms of using puppets as monarchs (rulers, kings, emperors):

• figurehead: the monarch is a puppet of another person or a group in the country, who are ruling instead of the nominal ruler.
• puppet government under a foreign power.

Examples of the first are puppets of shoguns of Japan, Mayor of Palace in Frankish kingdom.