AHC: cross-religion royal family

Just as it says on the tin - have any royal family reigning over nations of different religions, and actively participate in those religions - I.E a single family ruling morocco with a muslim branch and spain with a christian one. Is it even possible? how would a royal family like this behave?
 
Just as it says on the tin - have any royal family reigning over nations of different religions, and actively participate in those religions - I.E a single family ruling morocco with a muslim branch and spain with a christian one. Is it even possible? how would a royal family like this behave?

The Shihabs of Mount Lebanon. Were Sunni entirely but part of the family converted to Catholicism.
 
Just as it says on the tin - have any royal family reigning over nations of different religions, and actively participate in those religions - I.E a single family ruling morocco with a muslim branch and spain with a christian one. Is it even possible? how would a royal family like this behave?

Protestant Hohenzollerns ruled Prussia and Germany while a Catholic branch of the family ruled Romania. Will that do?
 
Protestant Hohenzollerns ruled Prussia and Germany while a Catholic branch of the family ruled Romania. Will that do?

The Hohenzollerns IIRC have two branches, the Franconian (Protestant) branch and the original Swabian (Catholic) branch.

By the way, the Wettins, even though they are Protestant, have Catholic branches. The mostly Albertine branch, mostly Catholic, ruled over mostly Protestant Saxony due to August II's conversion to gain the Polish throne. The Ernestine branch has a Catholic branch currently reigning in Belgium, and once ruled over Portugal and Bulgaria.
 
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Just as it says on the tin - have any royal family reigning over nations of different religions, and actively participate in those religions - I.E a single family ruling morocco with a muslim branch and spain with a christian one. Is it even possible? how would a royal family like this behave?
Easy in the Holy Roman Empire after the Reformation. It probably happened there multiple times (see Gintoki's post).
For example, the margraviate of Baden was divided between 1535 and 1771 into the protestant-reformed margraviate of Baden-Durlach and the catholic margraviate of Baden-Baden. Both where ruled by the same dynasty, both branches of the ruling family practiced their own religion.
 
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