Those were surprising words coming from a man whose father has ruled for 35 years largely by decree.

If my father had ruled until I was old and toothless, it would have made me perfectly happy.

His father ruled over a rapidly disintegrating empire between 1806 to 1837.

Sir Edward's father ruled his family with an iron hand, requiring absolute obedience.

Her father drank too much hard cider, had a raging temper, and ruled the household as master.

Proper fathers don't rule the lives of their children by force.

Do not forget that his father could rule men because he had first learned to rule himself.

One interpretation suggests this was while his father still nominally ruled.

The father ruled the family like the gestapo, Killion said.

By then, his father had already been in power three years and would rule for another 39.