galagazombie posted:

Are there any direct descendants of the Kaisers around? Or I suppose if you wanted to go old school you could get the old Holy Roman Empire elector heirs/successors and elect a new Emperor. In fact I wonder just how many dethroned European royal families are still kicking around with unbroken lines, just waiting for the chance to return to power...

galagazombie posted:

Are there any direct descendants of the Kaisers around? Or I suppose if you wanted to go old school you could get the old Holy Roman Empire elector heirs/successors and elect a new Emperor. In fact I wonder just how many dethroned European royal families are still kicking around with unbroken lines, just waiting for the chance to return to power...

Randarkman posted:

Not surprised by us scoring way higher on nationalism/patriotism/feeling culturally superior scale though. For one we make a much greater deal about our national day and other such public holidays than I believe is the case in Sweden and Denmark.

Randarkman posted:

Germans loving love reading tabloids and gossip about other countries' royal families.

Guavanaut posted:

Greenland's is objectively the best. No gods, no masters, no men, only

galagazombie posted:

Are there any direct descendants of the Kaisers around? Or I suppose if you wanted to go old school you could get the old Holy Roman Empire elector heirs/successors and elect a new Emperor. In fact I wonder just how many dethroned European royal families are still kicking around with unbroken lines, just waiting for the chance to return to power...

cebrail posted:

That's why German monarchism doesn't work: There's no "German" line of monarchs, the title of Kaiser was, according to the constitution, awarded to the King of Prussia. The House of Hohenzollern is still around of course, but that's deep in particularist regionalism and a monarchist from Bavaria wouldn't want a Prussian to be his king.

But this would be your guy.

System Metternich posted:

I would be ok with Germany splintering into hundreds of tiny fiefdoms and the Habsburgs taking again the rightful crown of the Roman Emperor though

420 Gank Mid posted:

http://royalcentral.co.uk/international/prince-luiz-philippe-of-brazil-elected-as-congress-representative-109738

A member of the Orleans-Braganza dynasty was recently elected to Brazil's congress and was also briefly being touted as a potential vice presidential candidate to Bolsonaro

Byzantine posted:

Listen here, you

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Not lookin’ too woke there, Australia

Also, being dethroned nobility seems like a pretty great life. All the independent wealth and celebrity but not even a shred of responsibility. Juat go to black tie events and do whatever. Racecar driver? Sure thing Herr Habsburg!

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Until 1994, Constantine's official Greek passport identified him as "Constantine, former King of the Hellenes". A law passed in 1994 stripped him of his Greek citizenship, passport, and property. The law stated that Constantine could not be granted a Greek passport unless he adopted a surname. He continues to use the title "King Constantine", although he no longer uses "Constantine, King of the Hellenes".

Today, this appellation draws attention to the fact that Constantine and his family lacks a legal surname in Greece.[citation needed] Constantine has stated: "I don't have a name—my family doesn't have a name. The law that Mr Papandreou passed basically says that he considers that I am not Greek and that my family was Greek only so long as we were exercising the responsibilities of sovereign, and I had to go out and acquire a name. The problem is that my family originates from Denmark, and the Danish royal family haven't got a surname." Glücksburg, he said, was not a family name but the name of a town. "I might as well call myself Mr. Kensington."[14]

In 2004, Constantine was back in Greece temporarily during the Athens Olympic Games as a member of the International Olympic Committee.[13] He freely travels in and out of Greece on a Danish diplomatic passport, as Constantino de Grecia (Spanish for "Constantine of Greece"),[15] because Denmark (upon request) issues diplomatic passports to any descendants of King Christian IX and Queen Louise and Constantine is a Prince of Denmark in his own right.[16]

During his first visit to Greece using this passport, Constantine was mocked by some of the Greek media, which hellenized the "de Grecia" designation and used it as a surname, thus naming him Κωνσταντίνος Ντεγκρέτσιας ("Constantine Degrecias").[15]

Guavanaut posted:

Denmark would need one first.

Squalid posted:

and yet many seem to spend their lives mostly getting into extremely stupid slap-fights with their former subjects.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Least nationalist country in Europe, alongside the UK.

Cat Mattress posted:

So the former King of Greece gets a Spanish name because he's a Prince of Denmark. Makes sense.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

most arrogant, least arrogant.

Dreddout posted:

The Czechs saying Slovakia is the least arrogant

DryGoods posted:

Phlegmish posted:

Thought it was interesting that Czechs are tolerant of gay people but intolerant of muslims. Not necessarily logically inconsistent, but for the rest of Europe one is correlated with the other in the opposite direction.

System Metternich posted:

I would be ok with Germany splintering into hundreds of tiny fiefdoms and the Habsburgs taking again the rightful crown of the Roman Emperor though

Xelkelvos posted:

Cross posting from CSPAM

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I dunno the daily struggles of being an ultra-rich ex-noble but it seems pretty hard to gently caress up that badly unless you're a total rear end in a top hat.

Pick some charities to publicly support, mumble about respecting the sovereign will of the people of X when asked about politics, and you're set. The average person probably as more goodwill towards nice-seeming apolitical von Schleppensburg-Tingsinduffer de Ittivincceres than they do standard capitalist rich people.

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On the night of 17 August or the morning of 18 August 1978, on the island of Cavallo (which lies off the south coast of Corsica), Vittorio Emanuele discovered his yacht's rubber dinghy had been taken and attached to another nearby yacht. Arming himself with a rifle, he attempted to board the vessel. He shot at a passenger he had awakened; the shot missed the passenger but mortally wounded Dirk Hamer (the nineteen-year-old son of Ryke Geerd Hamer), a passenger sleeping on the deck of another adjacent yacht. The prince admitted civil liability for the death in a letter dated 28 August 1978.[20] Dirk Hamer died of his wounds on 7 December 1978, and Vittorio Emanuele was arrested.

On 11 October 1989, Vittorio Emanuele was indicted on charges of inflicting lethal injury and possession of a dangerous weapon. But on 18 November 1991, after thirteen years of legal proceedings, the Paris Assize Court acquitted him of the fatal wounding and unintentional homicide charges, finding him guilty only of unauthorised possession of an M1 Garand rifle.[20] He received a six-month suspended prison sentence.[21]

When incarcerated in June 2006, on unconnected charges of corruption (see below, "Arrest and imprisonment"), Vittorio Emanuele was recorded admitting that "I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges]"

Xelkelvos posted:

Cross posting from CSPAM

Squalid posted:

This guy has enjoyed a long and pointless life of embarrassing debauchery, with another example of his antics being an instance where he punched a rival claimant to the Italian throne and knocked him down a staircase while attending a Spanish royal function.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

There are multiple graveyards in my hometown not on that map, in fact it makes it out that there are no graveyards in West Texas except for in the podunkiest parts (these places are as awful as you would expect from being the podunk parts of west texas). There must be some criteria not listed.

Platystemon posted:

On the Third of January, Earth is farthest from the Sun, its orbital motion is lowest, and thus the Sun moves through the sky the slowest. Based on the motion of the Sun, January 3 is twenty‐nine seconds longer than the mean.

mobby_6kl posted:

Well yeah they've got nothing to be arrogant about, duh.

goethe42 posted:

There is one thing Slovaks are arrogant about : the amount of Czechs that have to be saved/die each year in the Tatras due to completely inappropriate clothing and/or dumb decisions. But other than that, Slovaks are a very humble people, even though they live in one of the most beautiful countries in Europe and are the only country in the Visegrad group to not elect Nazis into power.