Charles would not be King with Iron Throne regulation however Grace Kelly relative

May 04, 2023 at 5:12 AM

King Charles III will probably be topped the British monarch this weekend on the first Coronation in 70 years at Westminster Abbey.

Yet if the UK had succession legal guidelines that skipped females just like the Iron Throne in Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon and Fire and Blood – as has been the case in some real-life monarchies – then Grace Kelly’s relative could be subsequent in line as a substitute.

When Queen Victoria got here to the throne in 1837, she was the firstborn of her late father, the Duke of Kent, who in flip was the following youthful brother of King William IV, who had no reputable inheritor. However, the brand new monarch misplaced her rule over Hanover in Germany.

This title had gone proper again to King George I, a non-English-speaking aristocrat, who was invited to succeed Queen Anne after a variety of eligible Catholics within the line of succession had been blocked.

The cause Victoria misplaced this proper was that the royal regulation in Hanover skipped females similar to in House of the Dragon and Fire and Blood. The most blatant instance is Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, who is called The Queen Who Never Was.

As a outcome, the following youthful brother of Victoria’s father, Ernest Augustus turned King of Hanover. Yes had we had such German legal guidelines just like the Iron Throne that skipped females, he would have been King of England and he or she would have been the real-life Queen Who Never Was.

Now if we comply with Ernest Augustus’ line right down to at the moment, the present head of the House of Hanover is Prince Ernst August of Hanover. Born in 1954, the 69-year-old is married to (however separated from) his second spouse Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Princess Caroline is the eldest little one of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and his spouse Hollywood star Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco. This implies that, in one other world, Prince Ernst August – the son-in-law of Princess Grace – might have been King as a substitute of Charles III.

However, the Hollywood star’s grandson wouldn’t be Prince of Wales on this hypothetical scenario. This is as a result of the following in line, additionally referred to as Prince Ernst August, is the son of his father’s first spouse Chantal Hochuli.