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Way back in the day sometimes if someone with no actual claim to a throne had enough soldiers and merchants backing them they could become the "legitimate" king or prince of the realm. Obviously Napoleon became Emperor but that was after a republic, I'm talking replacing one king/queen/prince/duke with another. So I'm wondering how close to the 20th century could someone have done that. And where?