Challenge/What If: No More Monarchies Post-WWII Europe

After WWII, how can Europe have all of its monarchies abolished (microstates being the exception)? Were there popular initiatives at the start to phase away from monarchism post-WWII? Or does it requires something else to remove these monarchies?
 
You mean they all disappear as a result of the same big sociopolitical wave sweeping Europe, or they coincidentally all just vanish as a result of varying internal circumstances in their respective countries?

FWIW, I really don't see this happening in the UK.
 
Without WW3 in 80's which would ruin whole Europe I can't see realistic way destroy all European monarhcies.

Some might turn as republics but not with any realistic way all of them. And even more impossible is make all monarchies as republics same time is totally impossible without some total disaster like WW3.

Belgium: Referendum in 1950 turns Belgium as republic.
Spain: Either Franco doesn't make Juan Carlos as his successor or then his right hand Blanco is not assassinated and he becomes all-powerful ruler of the country. Then there is revolution in eearly 1980's and Third Republic is founded.
Sweden: Prince Carl Gustav (in OTL current king of Sweden) is killed in accident before he becomes king. So instead CG his uncle Bertil becomes king. Because him hasn't any children, after his death Sweden becomes republic.
Norway: Breivik decides kill whole royal family and is succesful (altough this is pretty much impossible if then all of them aren't in same place and there is failure in security acts.).
 
Norway: Breivik decides kill whole royal family and is succesful (altough this is pretty much impossible if then all of them aren't in same place and there is failure in security acts.).

And assuming the Norwegians have some attachment to the insitution of the monarchy(as opposed to just that particular ruling family), they'd probably just import some distant cousins from somewhere else in Europe and make them the rulers.
 
You mean they all disappear as a result of the same big sociopolitical wave sweeping Europe, or they coincidentally all just vanish as a result of varying internal circumstances in their respective countries?

FWIW, I really don't see this happening in the UK.

Big sociopolitical wave.


Why are microstates the exception?

I don’t see how microstates’ monarchies can be abolished realistically. There’s Invasion but other than that no.
 
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