Why did European kings and queens believe they should be all-powerful?

European monarchs who claimed absolute power often justified it through the divine right of kings: they believed God had granted them authority to rule. This is different from the idea that Enlightenment thinkers supported absolute monarchy; many Enlightenment thinkers instead questioned unlimited royal power. The correct choice is “They felt that they had a divine right to be all-powerful.”

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