monarchy without revolutions?

Hi, new to this forum and to exploring alternate history. I admit to not being an expert on politics, but I was wondering what the impact on monarchy as an institution would be if the French revolution didn't happen. Would it still be going strong today?

France's system only works under a good king, from the way I understand it, but what if (non-bloody) changes were made, like a shared authority between the monarch and a parliament?

What if the royalists won the English civil war? Would parliament have been dissolved? Can the "monarch-and-parliament shared authority" government scenario happen? What if there was no English civil war?

What kind of scenario would allow French and English royals to still have political power to this day?
 
Hi, new to this forum and to exploring alternate history. I admit to not being an expert on politics, but I was wondering what the impact on monarchy as an institution would be if the French revolution didn't happen. Would it still be going strong today?
Yes and no.
The french monarchy was officialy legitimized since the end of Middle-Ages as a magistrature more than a title. The king was supposed to be the ultimate servant of the state's interest.
Of course, it was far from being actually true, but in order to avoid a revolution that overthrow the king, you have to make the French kings acknowledging that they have no choice but integrate their magistracy within a parliamentary institution.

Therefore, it make the king having a constitutional role, with rights and duties.

To avoid 1789, you need an earlier death of Louis XIV (but not before he finished the law reformations of his reign), and the call of Etats Generaux for a reason. Then, if you manage to keep the old monarchist titles but making them institutionnaly "popular" (well, the EG were mainly bourgeois, petty-bourgeois, little nobles and nobles)...You may have a thing.

But the french king wouldn't be as strong and powerful than it was, and you'll have at best an equivalent of presidential figure during III Republic. More than the British sovereign have today, but not that much.

However,the prestige of the crown would be probably somewhat preserved, at least until the third part of Industrial Revolution.

France's system only works under a good king, from the way I understand it, but what if (non-bloody) changes were made, like a shared authority between the monarch and a parliament?
Well, it's a bit of circular argument.
"The only good kings are the one that makes the system works, and this one works only under good kings."
 
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