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German Duke Franz Herzog von Bayern Is Rightful King Of England
GOD save Franz Herzog von Bayern new King of England and Scotland.
The Telegraph reports that should Gordon Brown repeal the 1701 Act of Settlement, something he is considering, the 74-year-old German will sit on the throne.
Brown sees the undoing of the Act as a way of “healing a historic injustice by ending the prohibition against Catholics taking the throne”.
No Act and Franz Herzog von Bayern, the current Duke of Bavaria, becomes the rightful heir to the British Crown under the Stuart line.
Know that the “bachelor, who lives alone in the vast Nymphenberg Palace in Munich, is the blood descendant of the 17th-century King Charles I”.
Of course, it will not happen. There is no more chance of a German sitting on the English thrown as there is of the King of England being a adulterous divorcee…
Posted: 7th, April 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians, Strange But True Comments (33) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 8th, 2009 at 8:14 am
You guys have it all wrong! If the 1701 act is repealed, There is a Stuart direct Descendant with a great claim then Elizabeth II.
from James II to
Prince James Francis Edward
to Prince Charles Edward
to Charlotte Stuart
to Charles Edward Rohanstart
to Adeline Charlotte Layton(Rohanstart)
to Alfred Joshua Layton
to Madison Wallace Layton I
to Madison Wallace Layton II
to Michael Rusell Layton
to John Robert Layton
Under the laws of primogeniture and blood proximity John Robert Layton of Scranton, PA become the King of England as holder of my blood of the Stuarts and Tudors then his second cousin 1o removed the very German Elizabeth II and her brats…The law is the law!
September 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
The present “Royal” family; Princess Philip (or “Queen Elizabeth”) and Co. are powerless because the countries that compose Britain have become a republic in all but name. Unlike Charles, King Francis is educated and doesn’t shag around all over the place. I would be much happier with either a proper monarchy (i.e. one where the monarch has some power and uses it) or a proper republic, rather than the silly state that exists at the moment. The only way for there to be a proper monarchy is to pension the Windsors off and replace them with a family that is not deeply compromised, apart from the glaringly obvious fact that the house of Hanover are just puppets for enforcing Protestant hegemony.
August 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Though really it doesn’t matter who the Real king and queen are or where they are from as pretty soon Britain will ABOLISH the monarchy. And that day cant come soon enough.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:18 am
28 - Peter Mac
‘And my friend Edward Llwellyn-Jones also lays claim to the throne of Scotland.’
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Tell him he’s behind me in the queue !
April 8th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Exactly so, bring back the Plantagenets
April 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am
And Battenberg became Mountbatten at the same time. But why stop at this particular point in history.
If Richard III had not died at Bosworth and Henry Tudor had not taken over, who would now be King ? And if Harold had not died at Hastings …
And my friend Edward Llwellyn-Jones also lays claim to the throne of Scotland.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
“There is no more chance of a German sitting on the English thrown as there is of the King of England being a adulterous divorcee…”
THRONE.
(F) see me after class
April 8th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Will Franz Herzog von Bayern accept the English throne?
Will the glorious German people be compensated for the wrongs committed against them by the heinous English?
Will Charles enter Camilla in the Kentucky Derby?
Will she win by 3 lengths?
Stay tuned….
April 8th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Must add also, that Queen Victoria’s genealogy is really not all that substantiated!
April 8th, 2008 at 4:19 am
The real King of England is indeed in Australia, living in the bush, well, lovely country town. He didn’t say anything about it until someone found out. It is believed the royal family pay visits every now and then, but this person has no plans to challenge the current monarchy.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:53 am
@ Sir Rup of Maple: And have you taken a look at any Brits lately?? Think: DENTIST!
April 8th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Sounds like the Jacobites are at it again. Now people can talk about the ‘15, the ‘45, and the ‘08.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Yes, well, because we know how well it turned out the last time the Germans wanted to visit London.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:08 am
And, if only to make matters more complicated, we’re all assuming that a German would move to the British Crown.
There are quite a few Celts who have an even greater claim to the Throne: O’Donnells (e.g. Kevin), O’Doughertys (e.g. Michael Scott), O’Neils (e.g. Sean or Thomas) and, of course, several Stewarts with various and sundry reasons for being included.
At day’s end, I firmly believe that, unless Monarchs are willing to resume their traditional role as protectors of their Subjects, stewards of the land (”The Land is the King and The King is the Land”) and the defenders of human rights, Monarchy in this world will likely end with the present Monarchy of Nepal (No, the Middle Eastern Monarchs don’t really count. They were made Kings by Edward and George).
In short, it is entirely possible that map makers will soon have to change from the “United Kingdom” to the “Republic of Britain”.
“The King is dead; long live the King”
April 7th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Royalty has been out of date since Napoleon marched all over the continent of Europe, proving once and for all that kings are pointless wastes of air, time and sociopolitical resources. If you think a king is anything more than a parasite on your society, you are a serf, a mental and social slave to an anarchistic system of political favoritism, genetical elitism and, in most cases, abject racism. Is it merely coincidence that the king of England hails from the land that spawned the modern archetype of racism?
Every Man a King - Huey Long
April 7th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Honestly, what difference does it make. Should ANYONE really be recognized as “royalty” in this day and age? I don’t know of a monarchy has any real power in other countries, but it seems like the British “royalty” are a politically powerless waste of taxpayer money.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Sir Rup,
Mayhaps that’s the reason Charles likes Camilla?
She’s quite the mare…
April 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Umm, Ric, my good fellow:
Although you are technically correct about the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha business, you seem to have overlooked the part where the English kings became German long before Victoria married her Herr. Even if She had been a He, I daresay that the surname Hanover may not have been any more confidence inspiring than the rousing S-C-G.
Besides all that, I rather doubt that a German with Scottish ancestors would make the govt anymore foreign than it already is. What, what?
April 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
That will certainly cause problems for British football supporters who will have to vigorously rub all five synapses together to come up with songs like “Rule Germania”, “G-d Save our Gracious Kaiser” and “If you lost the War but sit on the Throne Stand Up”.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
What do you expect from a long line of inbred Germans? Have you seen some of the family portraits?
Horses have better profiles.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Patrick, think Prince Charles, not Henry Tudor.
ric, it was World War I, not World War II, when the House of Wettin, Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, was renamed Windsor.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I’m sure that the ending remark could have *nothing* to do with Charles divorcing Diana and admitting to having adulterous affairs with Camilla (Good ol’ bulldog herself) before the divorce….
April 7th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I dub thee, Sir Chasm.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Yeah! Sarcasm, throne, nit, dumb kings and everyone is stupid! Uppity! I think I will stay up all night to correct everyone who is wrong on the internet. Nazis!
April 7th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
throne.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
And of course the King of England was at one point an adulterous divorcee. You know, Henry VIII. It was a sarcastic statement, made particularly pointed by the fact that he was responsible for starting the Church of England, and thus separating from the Catholic Church to begin with. Might want to look out for the humor before you go getting all uppity
April 7th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
IIRC from my Wikipedia education, it goes even further back than that. When Victoria became Queen, there was a law on the books in Saxony that stated that no woman shall be Queen of Saxony in her own right. So that part got broken off from the rest.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
ric, your grasp of sarcasm is incredible.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Perhaps Ric Cohen should look up “sarcasm” since it is in full force at the end of the article.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
it would appear that the honorable, ric cohen, is a stranger to sarcasm….nit
April 7th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
The real king of England is a bloke who lives in Australia. Directly descended from Edward III without the “wrong side of the blanket” problems that the current line had in the 14th century.
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/i-m/monarchtree.html