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Monarchs are dictators
They're generally excluded from the definition.
why?
In part because of the historical origin of the term dictator, so a monarch would inherit power while a dictator would rise from a republican government. In part because the fact that the British government isn't meaningfully freer than what they call dictators would hurt their pride