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[oven_baked]

My fort recently became the mountain home, Due to finding magma and having a stock of gold nuggets i had jumped from a large but poor fort that wasn't even a barony to a fort rich enough to become the mountain home.
So i offered up plenty of crafts to the caravan thinking it would be cool to be the capital.
And so later that year the king arrived by himself, not a single other dwarf that migration wave. Which was odd but not unpleasant as i was overpopulated and years where getting longer and longer as the FPS got lower and lower (population cap at 150 but actual pop of 180 after everybody decided to give birth).
Once I had made sure he was happy and settled in I decided to check the wiki to see what else i could do as it was the first time i had a monarch arrive.

Apparently he was meant to have an entourage of legendary military dwarves and workers though.  So why didn't they arrive? Is this a bug or did my king simply have an entourage of nobody?

[Loud Whispers]

The entourage is not a necessity for nobles. They have socks.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Now it will vary based on world gen, so he might not have any entourage (if, say, your whole civ is some goblin's civ's yearly beating bag).  This also leads to some (lucky, lucky) people with necromancers and vampires for consorts/royalty. 

[FritzPL]

They probably decided that because you're rich as fuck you can also afford sending an escort for the king. Apparently, the messenger was killed by the goblins/unfortunately jumped into a volcano/was surrounded by incessant cackling/got crushed by an obsidian penis. He still loves your place tho, kings like yellow things, like gold, booze, suns, wheat, siegers urine...

[Saiko Kila]

Maybe the king killed everybody during the journey because he's a psychopathic werewolf? Seriously though, I would expect the entourage without king rather than the king without entourage... Because in older world kings will die off after time, but not the entourage, if the civ is alive. My king arrived to my fortress in all his vampire glory, with his wife (who's not a vampire) and some badass fighters. The workers, including the king, were rather average though, or even worse, so I suppose you are losing only on the fighters (which are always few in number anyway), my mayor wasn't impressed.

Check out the family of the king, doesn't he have any cousins? Maybe make a copy of the save and check out the legends mode? My vamp is an uncle to many of my citizens and his real age is 120 years, compared to 100 he claims. So he can act naturally. But if your king is undead or otherwise cursed, and your world is old, then maybe there are not many citizens left, he and other beasts devoured them or something, and you got the last people of your tribe.

[caddybear]

It's best when you kill a werecreature and find out he was the king of your civ but got bitten.

[Loud Whispers]

It's best when you kill a werecreature and find out he was the king of your civ but got bitten.

Now how exactly would that...

[caddybear]

It's best when you kill a werecreature and find out he was the king of your civ but got bitten.

Now how exactly would that...

huh?

[rtg593]

It's best when you kill a werecreature and find out he was the king of your civ but got bitten.

Now how exactly would that...

huh?

Now THAT would be a loyalty cascade :p

[caddybear]

No I mean, when they become werecreatures they leave their post as the Monarch, but it's still fun. I never got to cage one though, werecreature attacks are pretty rare in my experience, but the one I killed that time was definitely a former King. ( thanks legendsviewer )

Also it's quite possible that you were a member of one of the poorer civs, since the migrants are taken from the historical figures, maybe the soldiers were all dead or something.