British Royal Execution

What is the latest that a member of the British Royal Family can be executed? It could either be by their own country (for treason for example) or by another (as an occupying force for example).

POD is 1800.
 
As to treason, it would take a fair bit of leathering, but not entirely impossible to have Ernst Duke of Cumberland drawn into treason around 1830s. There was some weird plot involving Freemasons, intended to dethrone Will IV and Princess Vic. the heir presumptive, and put Ernst on the throne.

All hot air and bombast really, but it wouldn't be the first time in history that hot air and bombast have brought a prince to the block, and Ernst was well hated.

As to an occupying force, I guess that if you somehow managed a German occupation of England in 1940 (flap, flap, beep, beep ) something, having one of the Royal family shot by the occupying forces wouldn't be impossible
 
Depending how broadly you cast "British Royal Family", Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, seems like a reasonable candidate... In OTL lost his British titles during WW1 for fighting on the German side then joined the Nazi party during the 1930s. Have him get enmeshed more deeply in the Nazi party and a short drop wouldn't be an implausible end.

Edit: Or, if doing an alternate spin on things have him maintain loyalty to the Brits during WW1 and ahve the Germans knock him off for that...
 
Is it at all non-ASB for (former) King Edward VIII to be put on court martial for treason in 1940?

Not really. By most appearances his Nazi sympathies were pretty overblown, and I've certainly seen nothing to suggest that he had any inclination to actively work against Britain in any way shape or form.
 
Is it at all non-ASB for (former) King Edward VIII to be put on court martial for treason in 1940?

Perhaps not 1940, but if he and Wallis are slightly too slow about leaving Paris in 1940 and are captured by the Germans and he gets bribed/flattered/threatened to do some Lord Haw-Haw style broadcasts during the war then it's possible he might meet Haw-Haw's fate afterwards. To seal the deal, if you could find a way of arranging for him to give some sort of royal patronage to the British Free Corps then I think it wouold be very likely indeed he goes to the tower and is fitted for a silk noose.
 
Depending how broadly you cast "British Royal Family", Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, seems like a reasonable candidate... In OTL lost his British titles during WW1 for fighting on the German side then joined the Nazi party during the 1930s. Have him get enmeshed more deeply in the Nazi party and a short drop wouldn't be an implausible end.

Edit: Or, if doing an alternate spin on things have him maintain loyalty to the Brits during WW1 and ahve the Germans knock him off for that...

You top idea would work, in that he would find himself executed at Nuremburg, which doesn't contradict the OP, only their examples.

IMHO there's no way he would be executed for treason as he was never treasonous - as a British royal duke (Albany) and a German sovereign duke, whichever one he chooses to follow is an acceptable honourable choice, it negates the other but does not constitute treason to it. If he chose to stick with British origins in 1914 he would either be expelled or imprisoned; even if the Kaiser was to rant that one of his subordinate sovereigns was committing treason, the Germans aren't about to follow his whim and risk executing a British prince.

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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, eldest son of King Edward VII, has been discussed as a suspect for the Jack the Ripper murders. This is a very fringey theory, and my understanding is that the evidence for it is very weak, but if it were true and his OTL death from influenza were avoided, there'd be a good chance he'd eventually get caught.

I'm not sure what Victorian or Edwardian Britain would do with an heir apparent who was a proven serial killer, but I don't think execution would be out of the question.
 
What is the latest that a member of the British Royal Family can be executed?

First, define "member of the Royal Family".

Say, the monarch, and any child or grandchild of a monarch?

What about in-laws?

It could either be by their own country (for treason for example) or by another (as an occupying force for example).
What about a royal overseas?

POD is 1800.
The POD has to be in 1800? Or 1800 or later?

As to the question -

Prince Harry served a 20-week hitch in Afghanistan as a a pilot/gunner in Apache helicopters, returning only two months ago. It's not clear when his last combat mission was.

If he had been shot down and captured by the Taliban, they might have "executed" him.

And that could have been this year.
 
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First, define "member of the Royal Family".

The POD has to be in 1800? Or 1800 or later?

If he had been shot down and captured by the Taliban, they might have "executed" him.

1. For the efforts of this scenario, say that members of the royal family are the Queen, King their heirs and cousins and children to each of these people.

2. 1800 and later.

3. I meant by a proper government mostly.
 
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