What post 18thC countries rulers escaped to a remote/separate region and hung on while the country collapsed under revolution?

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The Taliban seem to be an example of that phenomenon.

EDIT: I see now that the question is limited to revolution. The Taliban fled because of a war.

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A number of Roman and Byzantine Emperors did this over the course of a thousand years. The Palaiologos Dynasty comes to mind.

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