Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga./FILE
The King is dead! Long live the King! After a formal declaration of the demise of the enthroned royal is made, the succession process begins in earnest.
The holder of the royalty’s privy purse then discloses the contents of the will. This is the practice within the dominions of monarchies. In constitutional democracies, this is not normally the case, as succession is constitutionally laid out.
