What Happened to the Concept of ‘The Realm’?
2 min readMay 19, 2024
While watching the TV series Shogun, I noticed that the word ‘realm’ kept cropping up. Why, I thought, do we not use this word anymore? Why does it only appear in historical fiction or fantasy? Does it have something to do with its etymological origin in kingship? If so, why is the UK not referred to as a realm?