That still be a monarchy, though. Now, very few monarchies nowadays are puppets. Why? Because the monarch has too little power to make anyone interested in puppeting them! Or do you mean modern-day Constitutional Monarchies?At most, you could have a puppet monarchy.
I remember writing a short TL about that- De Gaulle is proclaimed King of the French by the provisional senate, and he leads France into a constitutional, liberal monarchy (well, liberal compared to the Orleans or Bourbons).Nah... pretty much ASB... unless u have DeGaule (sic) crown himself King of France... (or Emperor if u prefer...)
More liberal then OTL De Gaulle, obviously, since the Orleanists were quite liberal (indeed, very, very liberal for monarchists in a non-monarchy).I remember writing a short TL about that- De Gaulle is proclaimed King of the French by the provisional senate, and he leads France into a constitutional, liberal monarchy (well, liberal compared to the Orleans or Bourbons).
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1929/broglie-bio.html said:Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie of the French Academy, Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the Faculty of Sciences at Paris University, was born at Dieppe (Seine Inférieure) on 15th August, 1892, the son of Victor, Duc de Broglie and Pauline d'Armaillé.
Somehow, I can see him focusing on a nuclear programmeConsidering that Juan Carlos took the throne of Spain as a liberal/democratic enhancement of the country, a French king could conceivably do the same earlier. I'd LOVE to see Louis de Broglie as king:
Sort of like Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel, you know....
Erm...could one of the claimants (Legitimist, Orleanist, or Bonapartist) have been a heroic army officer who takes the place of de Gaulle in TTL (De Gaulle being killed in the early stages of the war or something), leads the Free French charismatically, then becomes President and eventually crowns himself King or Emperor?
Admittedly that sounds more likely with the Bonapartists...
I was referring to the historical monarchies of those families, not the opinions of the claimants circa De Gaulle's time.More liberal then OTL De Gaulle, obviously, since the Orleanists were quite liberal (indeed, very, very liberal for monarchists in a non-monarchy).
This invalidates that weird coincidence how?Not really, Haps. His father, Henri de Gaulle, was a philosophy professor at a Jesuit college - and Wiki says that M. de Gaulle came from a long line of aristocrats from Normandy and Burgundy.
Franco-British Union accepted Elizabeth the First of France and England
assuming the standard British numbering system for monarchs is maintained, she'd still be Elizabeth II
Basically the monarchs take whichever Regnant number is highest from each of the individual nations, eg, if there were a future King David he would be King David III as Scotland has already had 2 King Davids
True, but I believe this was only decided in Elizabeth II's reign. Otherwise we would talk of James VI and James VII, when historically we refer to them as I and II - of course, if there is another James he WOULD be the VIII by this act, which would look even weird - I, II and VIII !
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