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TIL South America's only existing monarchy is in Bolivia. In the 1830s, enslaved men on a plantation realised Prince Uchicho - a noble from the Kingdom of Kongo, Africa - laboured amongst them. They crowned him King and, reognised by the state, his descendents preside over the same region today.

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