Post by WindemerePost by HuntingtonPlease forgive if this has been covered before, but in his review of Netflix's "The Crown" for the Daily Mail, Hugo Vickers writes, "in real life (Prince Philip) he wanted (the royal house) called Edinburgh," not Mountbatten, as is usually said.
I've never heard this before. Can anyone point to a source? Thanks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3840165/With-100million-budget-Netflix-s-eagerly-anticipated-new-Crown-lavish-biopic-says-royal-expert-HUGO-VICKERS-s-marred-sensationalist-errors-remarkable-lapses-vulgarity.html
Actually, Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg did get married
a few years ago to Stephanie de Lannoy, a young Countess from a Belgian
noble family. They are both still young (early thirties), and so they
have a good likelihood of a firstborn son, and the retention of the
Capetian-Borbone Dynasty in Luxembourg.
50% at best one would assume (descendants of Grand Duke Henri are in
gender-blind order in succession).
Post by WindemereI believe that Luxembourg's original grand-ducal family, the House of
Nassau, has been extinct in male line for several generations.
The original House of Luxemburg died out centuries ago and the Burgundians
and Habsburgs held power over the years before the Grand Duchy was
awarded to the House of Nassau by the Congress of Vienna...its last
ruler,Charlotte,abdicated in 1964 and died in 1985,last survivor of
her father's daughters.Their morganatic Merenburg branch died out
in 1965.
Post by WindemereThe present family are the cognatic descendants.
The original Houses of Netherlands (Oranje) and Monaco (Grimaldi)
became extinct in male line many years ago, and so it's inevitable that
they continue on through some cognatic house.
Exactly...their heirs,not the same House,continue (just as the British
monarchs are heirs of,but not,Normans and Plantagenets).
Post by WindemereThe House of Oldenburg in Britain appears to be well-fortified for the
upcoming 3 generations, and so this old Dynasty will be perpetuated
there for the remainder of our lifetimes at least, even though it will
be under the British name of Windsor.
It is too bad that Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and Spain shall
eventually pass to some recently-contrived cognatic Houses. Especially
since the agnatic Oldenburg, Bernadotte, Wettin, and Borbon lineages
will still persist. But in these disordered times in which we now live,
I suppose that it is the best that we can expect, and we must resign
ourselves to it.
The sons of Robert the Strong alternated on the French throne with the
Carolingians before grandson Hugh the Great's descendants secured it;
Felipe of Spain looks to be the last King of that line,whether a son
is next born in the Luxembourg succession will determine,barring
restorations in France,Parma,or the Two Sicilies,whether there are
any more monarchs at all beyond current adults.
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