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When they adapt older stories there was often a monarch involved. Then they start using the adaptations as inspiration for what they make next. Like how sci fi often has space monarchs as it spun out from pulp fantasy.
Also that absolute monarchy is a pretty simple system to wrangle for storytelling, a lot harder to keep a limited scope in a parliamentary system for example.