Didn’t Diana Ross do a song about this?
Except for 13 of Louis XIV’s bastards . . . but he was kind of a strange duck anyway.
Read once in a library book that he had up to 100 “natural children”. Aparently, from his 20s to his late 60s, he dallied with just about any female who came anywhere near him.
Actually male royal illegitimates were made Dukes and girls were married off advantageously to royal favorites.
Royal bastard Don Juan of Austria (1547-1578) was addressed as “Prince” in person and in writing during the period when he led the combined Christian forces against the Turkish fleet... and saved Europe from Islam.
There’s the one line in the article that seems to be clarifying: it looks like it’s similar to Britain, where titles are bestowed by the monarch. With the monarch at least nominally the sovereign, how could a court that is subordinate to his sovereignty compel a discretionary act? I don’t know but of course illegality wouldn’t slow down a federal Judge in this country, it rarely does
She may not be a princess, but she does look like a Karen.
Bruce Jenner should try this.
As a matter of fact, several bastard children actually ascended to the thrones in many countries. Most notable examples:
English king Wilhelm the Conqueror was bastard son of Robert I, duke of Normandy and daughter of random dyer from Falaise.
Spanish house of Trastamara including both Reyes Catolicos descended for bastard son of King Alfonso XI and his mistress Eleanor de Guzman.
Early Norwegian kings were almost all bastards as marriage was not in particular curtom over there.
OK, Poof! You’re a princess. Here’s your tiara. Bastards get the plastic ones and host royal banquets at the local Quick (a Belgian burger joint).