noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ empty , vacant
▪ imperial , papal , royal
VERB + THRONE
▪ ascend , assume , come to , gain , inherit , succeed to , take
▪
Elizabeth I came to the ~ in 1558.
▪ claim
▪ seize , usurp
▪ occupy
▪ abdicate , give up , renounce
▪ lose
▪ reclaim , regain
▪ put sb on
▪ topple sb from
▪
Left-wing revolutionaries toppled the king from his ~.
▪ restore sb to
▪ be in line to
▪
The prince is second in line to the ~ behind his brother.
PREPOSITION
▪ on the ~
▪
Queen Victoria remained on the ~ for over sixty years.
PHRASES
▪ sb's accession to the ~
▪ a claimant to the ~ , a pretender to the ~
▪
a claimant to the vacant Spanish ~
▪ sb's claim to the ~ , sb's right to the ~
▪ an heir to the ~
▪
The marriage failed to produce an heir to the ~.
▪ the power behind the ~ ( figurative )
▪
The managing director's secretary is the real power behind the ~.
▪ the succession to the ~