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By the Grace of God, as well as the various equivalent phrases in other languages thus rendered in English, is not a title in its own right, but a common introductory part of the full styles of many Monarchs, preceding the actual princely styles in chief of the specific realm(s) and/or other principalities (King of X, Duke of Y, etc.). For example, according to the "Royal Proclamation reciting the altered Style and Titles of the Crown" of May 29, 1953, Elizabeth II's full title is "Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith"; in the various other Commonwealth Realms, variations are used, specifying the realm in question and varying some of the other elements of the title. Originally, it had a literal meaning the divine will was invoked—notably by Christian Monarchs—as legitimation (the only one above every earthly power) for the Absolutist authority the Monarch aimed at. This is also known as the divine right of kings, that is, the endorsement of God to the monarch's reign. In the Behistun Inscription high over the road connecting Babylon and Ecbatana, the capitals of Babylonia and Media, the Achaemenid Persian King of Kings Darius I the Great had inscribed, in the Old Persian, Akkadian and Elamite languages
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