Madeleine would rather get a rich boy in New York than Harry. It will not work since they are second cousins and incest worked for the previous generations but not now.
Okay....
First, I didn't outline a LIKELY scenario, I outlined a POSSIBLE scenario in which a personal union could occur. So her wanting a rich boy in New York doesn't really have any bearing on the possible scenario, otherwise there would be no point in discussion or in Evilprodigy creating this thread. If persons only want to discuss what is likely instead of possible then perhaps they shouldn't bother with threads like this.
Secondly(no pun intended), they aren't second cousins. I'm not sure which tree you looked on, but the only known relationship I can find between them is that of fourth cousins once removed (twice if we want to get really technical). Genealogically that means they share a whopping 0.39% of their genes from their last common ancestors (Queen Victoria and Prince Albert).
Thirdly it wouldn't be incest (even if they were second cousins) unless you are 19th century Roman Catholic. Today second cousins can be married pretty much anywhere and even the Catholic Church will allow dispensations for first cousins to get married (note though that if it was really incest according to them they couldn't allow for "dispensations" since they don't allow similar dispensations for sibling to be married or for people to randomly club each other to death). Also I don't see how this contentions squares with the supposedly
law in Sweden that allows even half-siblings to get married (but only with government approval)....unless the BBC was just being sensationalist like pretty much the rest of the British press.
The only other way it could be "incest" is if you consider incest to be marrying or having sex with any person with whom you have a common ancestor (any common ancestor). That view would lead to pretty much everyone dying a virgin since whether you believe in Creation or evolution you would have to be committing incest if you want children. If you believe in Creation word-for-word in the Bible then everybody is a descendant of Adam and Eve (even worse, with the Flood story it would mean everyone was actually a descendant of Noah and his wife as the most recent, last common ancestor), so everyone must be a cousin. If you subscribe to evolution then you should know that all individuals within a given sexually reproducing species must be related and have a common ancestor. There is even supposedly a
Y-chromosomal Adam and a
mitochondrial Eve so in theory any woman you meet will be related to you and your mother and any guy you meet will be related to you and your father.
You forgott 5. After Victoria died the support for the Swedish monarchy took a big nosedive and Madeleine dont have to become queen since the parliament voted for republic.
Yep, because in any discussion of the possibilities of a personal union between extant monarchies we
must include the possibility that the monarchies are voted out therefore precluding any and all discussion on the possibility of personal union in the first place.
Really I don't see why I should have included this "5" when even polls which show the Swedish monarchy "losing support" still show between 60-70% of respondents in favour of keeping it.
In Sweden the current stand on monarchy more or less stands and falls with crown princess Victoria and Daniel. The kings popularity is shrinking faster and faster, Madde and Carl-Philip are currently acting as spoiled brats that avoid anything that translate into working as royals.
Naturally, because those who don't consider themselves to be seriously in line for the throne are going to live up the good life. Note the difference in public opinion between Prince William (third in line and very likely to become King soon either directly after his grandmother if his father dies before or shortly after his dad who will likely have a short reign) and Prince Henry (fourth in line and likely to be pushed back further after William and Kate get married and have kids). It would seem remarkably coincidental that Charles and William (the closest in line to the throne) tend to act with restraint and some amount of decorum like Crown Princess Victoria whilst Henry and basically all other royals in the UK feel uninhibited and sometimes act as brats just like Carl-Phillip and Madeleine.
Of course in the previous generation for the UK it was oddly the other way around with the future George VI being restrained and the future Edward VIII leading the playboy lifestyle.
However even brats grow up and playboys grow old so I doubt Henry will be going to frat parties at the age of 60.