That's probably not true. There's the Dalai Lama and Simeon II of Bulgaria, who were minors but at least Simeon surely remembers (his father died in suspicious circumstances, he had an unconstitutional regency, and then he was dethroned, expelled and spent his life in exile).
> Now that generation that remembered the horrors of fascism has mostly passed and we find ourselves in a period that seems to have many echos of the 1930s with a new rise of authoritarianism and fascism around the world
It's honestly infuriating that with the wealth of information available at everyone's fingertips so many people are so easily making the same mistakes as a century earlier.
I think the grandparent comment’s author forgot to insert a “British” in front of monarch.
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> [Simeon II] is, along with the current Dalai Lama, one of only two living people who were heads of state from the time of World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
However, Elizabeth II did not become Queen until well after WW2.
(Removed erroneous statement about the Swedish king being old enough to remember WW2; he was born in 1946.)
The British monarch is one of the least powerful heads of state on earth. The president of Barbados has more discretionary power.