Catherine the great didn't intend to give up no power.
Their response was war. The other European countries were afraid that revolution may spread to their people and remove them from their throne and their power. So they did the only logical thing the could come up with. Mainly Austria and Prussia, but others too, began to march on France to place King Louis XVI back on the throne and support the idea of absolutism. Also the Queen of France was an Austrian so they also may have been trying to look out for one of their own.
The British refused to give up the Boston tea and the stamp act, But later they were both given up.
King Narmer
petition of right 1628 was when parliament wrote a list of things that were illegal for a king/queen to do. During this period, the king was Charles I of England. Sir Edward Coke brought up this whole idea about the petition of right.
King Henry VII did not "give up the throne." His reign ended when he died on 21 April 1509.
The word is abdicate. It means to vacate the throne. To give up being the king or ruler of a nation.
Give up a throne
The word is 'Abdicate'. Your correspodent metions King Edward(VIII) of England ; true. King James (II) of England abandoned the throne in 1692 , without a formal statement of abdication.
Belshazzar did not give up the throne of Babylon. It was taken from him when he was killed when Cyrus the Persian conqured the Babylonian Empire (Chaldean's)
Edward VIII
That is only if she wants to give the throne to Charles. She could bypass Charles and give it to William instead
Louis-Philippe gave up the throne, and revolutionaries established an unsuccessful republic
Tsar Nicholas II. He has to give it up in WWI because his people wanted to become communist and you obviously can't have a king if you want to do that
Edward VIIIA couple were deposed in the middle ages, but the only King to give up the Throne voluntarily was Edward VIII in 1936.
2013
Harry has not given up his right to the throne, he is currently fifth in the line of succession.