A prince? Who cares what ANY member of ANY monarchy has to say?
What’s he supposed to be prince of anyway? It can’t be France, they fixed that “royal” problem back in the day.
“Who cares what ANY member of ANY monarchy has to say?”
If he’s right, he’s right whether he’s a nobleman or not. And...he is right.
“What’s he supposed to be prince of anyway? It can’t be France, they fixed that “royal” problem back in the day.”
The title is passed down anyway. There has always been a strong monarchist tradition in France - even 2020 year after the French Revolution.
Bingo. This is one of my pet peeves. This gent is no more a prince (of anything) than I am.
They didn’t fix the royal problem, as they kept getting kings and emperors after 1789.
The final removal of the last king (Napoleon III) was courtesy of the Germans in 1870.
As for why they should listen - the French, like all Europeans, are a tribal people. They have been straining very hard to deny this but its obviously not working for them, this business of a France defined by a purely legalistic identity. Only the US has made a go of building a nation out of a philosophy, and its often been quite a stretch. Ol’ Charlie here is the hereditary, traditional chief of the French tribe, the heir to the ancient Kingdom of the Franks (or at least by some theories of the matter). He is head of his branch of the house of Bourbon, of the house of Orleans, and his lineage goes back directly to Charles Martel (albeit through various female lines when dynasties changed).
The consequences of fixing the “royal problem” in France nearly annihilated European civilization over the following two hundred years.
In fact — it may have succeeded.
He is a prince because his father was a prince. He has not rejected his family or his family tradition.
As a practical matter, he supports republican government and ran for office as a conservative pro-family candidate.
Holly says, his royal pompous ass still speaks of his royal self in the third person doesn't his royal self?
Napoleon III was deposed as emperor in 1870 following the his personal defeat by the Prussians at Sedan, and the general defeat of France. The Bourbons were offered the throne, but refused what would have been a constitutional monarchy. So but for the hard headedness of the would be Henry V, France would have been a monarchy at the onset of the First World War.
The current heir to the French throne, quoted here, is from the House of Orleans. They last held the throne until deposed by the ‘Occupy Paris’ crowd in 1848.
This is funny. You know, dukes and princes are the only people of whom you cannot ask the question without looking foolish. Who is Prince Charles-Philippe d'Orléans, Duc d'Anjou prince and duke of? Seriously?