Present-day sovereign states whose head of state is a reigning monarch, constitutional or absolute, currently in existence. Belongs here: constitutional monarchies such as the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and Japan, Commonwealth realms sharing the British monarch such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and monarchies of the Middle East and North Africa such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Morocco. Does not belong here: a monarchy that has since ended, filed under Kingdoms and Principalities, or under Empires and Imperial States if it governed under an imperial title, and a present-day republic, filed under Modern Sovereign Republics.