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Realm: Silliness - Subrealm: Royalty
May. 7th, 2006 01:51 pmWARNING: EXTREME GEEKINESS
...So I spent way too much time on Thursday wasting time on Wikipedia looking up EXACTLY who the Jacobite claimant to the British throne would be. (Yes, I´m a geek. And an anachronist. And an Anglophile. Deal.) Turns out he´s an art collector in Munich, who (as a result of a REALLY complicated descent from a daughter of Charles I) would be referred to by any remaining Jacobites as "Francis II, King of England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Bavaria, and Jerusalem." yeah.
The real point is that this got me thinking about what would happen if the entire immediate British royal family got wiped out in some kind of King Ralph scenario. Realistically, what would probably happen is that the country would just give up on the whole monarchy schtick; failing that, they´d presumeably just find Lizzie´s nearest living relative. (pace King Ralph, you´d have to kill about a hundred people just to get back to Queen Victoria, and then, of course...)
I, however, think it would be much cooler, as well as far more popular, to select from all the various pretenders to the throne. After all, in addition to the Jacobite candidate (They´d probably go for Franz´s niece, Sophie of (get this) Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein!), you´ve got an alternative Hannovarian candidate, the soi-disant Duke of Cumberland and Brunswick (OK, he has a history of GBH); Juan Carlos of Spain, who´s descended from John of Gaunt´s second wife (vs. Henry Tudor´s third), and probably any of a number of others with silly claims to the throne. The key would be the selection process:
Reality-TV-style gameshow, with celebrity judges.
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PS: You can blame all this on Grace: she said I should post it...
...So I spent way too much time on Thursday wasting time on Wikipedia looking up EXACTLY who the Jacobite claimant to the British throne would be. (Yes, I´m a geek. And an anachronist. And an Anglophile. Deal.) Turns out he´s an art collector in Munich, who (as a result of a REALLY complicated descent from a daughter of Charles I) would be referred to by any remaining Jacobites as "Francis II, King of England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Bavaria, and Jerusalem." yeah.
The real point is that this got me thinking about what would happen if the entire immediate British royal family got wiped out in some kind of King Ralph scenario. Realistically, what would probably happen is that the country would just give up on the whole monarchy schtick; failing that, they´d presumeably just find Lizzie´s nearest living relative. (pace King Ralph, you´d have to kill about a hundred people just to get back to Queen Victoria, and then, of course...)
I, however, think it would be much cooler, as well as far more popular, to select from all the various pretenders to the throne. After all, in addition to the Jacobite candidate (They´d probably go for Franz´s niece, Sophie of (get this) Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein!), you´ve got an alternative Hannovarian candidate, the soi-disant Duke of Cumberland and Brunswick (OK, he has a history of GBH); Juan Carlos of Spain, who´s descended from John of Gaunt´s second wife (vs. Henry Tudor´s third), and probably any of a number of others with silly claims to the throne. The key would be the selection process:
Reality-TV-style gameshow, with celebrity judges.
( Read more... )
PS: You can blame all this on Grace: she said I should post it...
