Possible Clues:

• Gives up pressing need for reform from the start
• Quits before the king is captured
• Leaves a job voluntarily
• Rules, but taking mistress finally abdicates
• Accepts another contract and quits
• Quits, then puts his name down again
• Concedes
• Leaves a gig
• Gives up (a post)
• Tips over one's king, e.g