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An example use of monarch in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… to please both the monarch and the pope …”
A monarch is a person who rules a country or other area.
the word monarch occurs in english on average 7.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.