Its interesting to hear this old chestnut time and again because it of course implies that the population of the UK (or any Western Europe state for that matter) have ever been given a specific choice on mass immigration in a a yes or no referendum which would provide empirical evidence to...
Maybe Crown Dependencies kind of like Jersey and Isle of Man would work better, they have all the benefits of being British but also retain their own government etc.
British ancestry was not a requirement for Queens Consort. The purpose of a King's marriage was twofold (i) to produce male heirs; (ii) to establish a relationship/alliance with a foreign power. Think of the fall out when Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville when his ministers were actively...
Just to serve a curveball, is it possible for a monarchical America to develop a political system akin to the one it currently has, i.e. a Presidential system but also with a King?
Is that possible?
The idea being that the King almost exists outside of the political system or exists above the...
That's a whole lot of sudden death.
Olav seemed an extremely good and well liked constitutional King of Norway so it seems unlikely that he wouldn't be an equally popular and beloved British king.
The bigger problem would be the future of the Norwegian monarchy - the Norwegian constitution...
The Tsar had the power to overrule such rules. He was under such some family pressure to do so in relation to his brother Grand Duke Michael, who wanted to marry their respective first cousin Beatrice of Edinburgh. It was a love match that had widespread family support. The Tsar, being the...
I suspect he would move to Russia and create his own junior branch akin to the Leuchtenberg's or Oldenburg's. He'd probably have a pretty average career in the Russian military and maybe get a vice-regal posting in Kiev or the Caucuses.
The current King and his heir married Norwegian commoners but if the theory about inbreeding was true then the King of Norway should essentially be an imbecile, he is the product of two generations of first cousin marriages between 3 of his grandparents and as for his fourth grandparent (Carl of...
Agreed - the Protestant European royal houses were also good quite at introducing new blood and expanding the pool.
Look at Montenegro who managed to score a Queen of Italy, inconceivable maybe 10-15 years before she married the Crown Prince of Italy. Go back two generations and you have the...
I wanted to add a theory here - two prime examples used to illustrate the problems of inter-marriage is the Spanish Hapsburgs of the 17th century and the Bourbon Parma's of the 20th century. However that doesn't explain why other royal houses that had pretty extreme (by modern standards)...
A little far fetched don't you think?
Charles and Margareta are not especially closely related, they both share descent from Queen Victoria (two separate lines) and King Christian IX of Denmark (also two separate lines) but the issues with the Hapsburgs was 100s of years of uncles marrying...
You are starting from a factually incorrect basis - British legislation has never required those in line of succession to marry foreign royals or those with titles and it is striking that if one looks at British royal spouses pre-1714 there are a significant number of 'commoner' spouses, which...
Its already been announced that the King will be presented (not a Coronation) with the Honours of Scotland at a ceremony at St Giles, following a precedent established in 1953.
If WA was out of action, I agree that from a historical perspective Winchester is the most likely alternative option.
The scenario we were starting from about is a weakened Tsar/Romanov dynasty. One who likely has to build allies, even moreso with his enemies and threats within his own family.
The likelihood is that this marriage is not taking place until the mid to late 1920s by which time both Tsarina...