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Your country, Poland, was an elective Kingdom with no set dynasty, one of the factors that led to its being partitioned away in the 18th century. Alas, it became a plaything among Romanovs, Hohenzollerns, and Habsburgs ( who at least were Roman Catholics and preserved Cracow as a cultural center.)

I agree with about everything you've said. VERY interesting that the Princess has endored the Aosta's. An old story in the Casa Savoia: rivalry between the branches. I had entertained some hopes for restorations in Bulgaria (Odd to think that a former King served as his country's Prime...

Good reply..and good to see a knowledgeable commentator! My remarks about the Savoys involve Prince EF as well: his lack of gravitas and the marriage to a six-month pregnant actress did not help. An organization called "The Senate of the Kingdom of Italy" ( the surviving life-time Senators...

Quite frankly, I think the trend is rather the other way, sadly. "Austria" ,remember, was far more than the Austria of today; and the Habsburg Pretender, the Archduke Otto, made no move when there was at least a glimmer of hope of a restoration to the Hungarian throne right after the fall of...

Yes, yet there is some sense to this. The Prince of the Asturias is immediately in line to a throne occupied by an aging father; whilst William of Wales is a full step away from the throne after his father.

Sovereign While CP Victoria has known all her life she is to assume the throne after her father; she seems to defer to her brother in the military/naval aspect of things: never in ceremonial uniform, on the balcony with with her mother and sister while her brother stands next to the King at...

Both Spain and Britain had a tradition of the "Crown Matrimonial": a man married to a Queen Regnant (i.e., Sovereign/Head of State) bore the title "King" but without any of the consitutional duties of a Sovereign. The spouse of Isabel II of Spain in the 19th century bore the title "King." One...

The Constitution states that the Head of State holds all the highest ranks in the Armed Forces, though is not the Commander-in-Chief. Like Elizabeth II a future Queen Victoria of Sweden would hold military ranks and even be entitled to wear military uniform though not actually a professional...

Interesting indeed! There has not been a death of a reigning Monarch in the Netherlands since the death of King William III in the 1890's. As for Sweden, when the time comes, with that pseudo-republican Constitution in force I wonder if the future Queen Victoria will have the same colorful...

Let us assume that at your birth you were the heir-in-law to your father's fortune and would inherit both his wealth and position. As you lay in your cradle other men decide it really would be "fairer" that your sister get everything instead; ignoring your parents' wishes. Of course, as an...

Where is that thread? :cool: Thanks. Btw: I'm not saying Victoria is not the "rightful heir" in the sense that she is not the legitimate heir to the Crown under current Swedish law. What I AM saying was that parliamentary actions that made her heir are dubious in terms of common justice and...

A question of "right" does not depend upon whether or not your rights are altered or removed at age 20 or 20 days. What kind of society would it be if families and the rights of infants were at the whim of politicians? Carl-Philip was Crown Prince of Sweden at his birth by the law and the...

In fact the law did rob C-P of his rightful inheritance. To pass an "ex post facto" law depriving an infant of his legal inheritance ( be it crown or a pair of shoes) is repugnant in jurisprudence and simple justice. Especially if that deprivation is done in the name of some abstract "good". It...

As a side bar to this thread I've always found it fascinating and odd to read of heirs to thrones, who when they find themsleves as Sovereigns after years of being Heir express the fact (?) that they are not prepared, had no idea, never wanted to be "King...Tsar..etc..etc.." What did they think...

Yes..I wonder if the Belgian monarchy is nearing its end? It seems the Crown Prince has repeatedly put his foot wrong even with the current government and this new business about his brother is very unseemly. If only King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola had been able to have children!

The Greek Royal Family always seemed to have been much poorer and less well-housed than the other dynasties. It was part of the gwoing criticism of the 1960's that the late Queen Mother and the young King were too lavish in their style and expenditures. Given the lively irreverence and...

Rex Sveciae To rule ( or simply "reign") is NOT a right in itself. It is a right granted by the seeming happenstance of birth AND the law. When Prince Carl Philip was born, under the law and constitution of the Kingdom of Sweden in effect at his birth, he was in fact and in law Crown Prince...

Rex Sveciae I think a fundamental point not to be missed here is the fact that Prince Carl Philip was robbed of his birth-right by the Swedish politcal establishment and elite that desired not only to end the Salic Law but made the 1980 Law retroactive. The infant Prince was already officially...

Rex Sveciae As for "Eastern Jewel" the only pictures I'm aware of can be found in David Bergamini's controversial 1970 book "Japan's Imperial Conspiracy". She was indeed as you describe her. As for the Japanese Princess, did she in fact marry Pu-yi, or his brother?

Sveciae Rex It is currently Imperial House Law that any female of the Imperial House who marries thereby relinquishes her membership in the Imperial Family. We saw that in the former Princess Sayako's case recently. This way the size of the Imperial Family is limited as was the intention of the...

Sveciae Rex Wales as a Principality needs a "Prince": the fact it never was a kingdom is the reason it is the Welsh "Assembly" and not a "parliament" and the fact that the Red Dragon does not figure in the UK Arms nor in Royal Standard ( though IMO if the vestigial Crown connection with...

Councillor Actually the "Salic Law" is more restrictive: no female can inherit the throne at all; nor can a claim to the throne be transmitted through a female. It came to Spain with the advent of the House of Borbon at the beginning of the 18th century. It was repealed by Fernando VII in...

Peer If that is true....it is a sad breach of good manners and protocol. The practice of holding the hand over the heart is usually done only for the US Anthem however. Nonethless, if the President behaved as you describe during the playing of the "Wilhelmus" then he was wrong; and also...

Peer Yes...but I STILL think Carl Philip needs a haircut!...:D

Camilla's Title The point that has been made is right. It is a matter of law that Camilla will become in fact the Princess of Wales the same way she will become "HRH the Duchess of Cornwall": by virtue of her marriage to the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall. She may choose to be called only...