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Any scholars of European monarchical dynasties here?
It's kind of odd that the British royal family is largely Germanic in roots:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
Whereas the Stuart Jacobite line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism
though originating in the Scottish highlands, now mainly live in Germany, it appears:-
http://jacobite.ca/kings/index.htm
And as for Ireland - neither of the above lines are legitimate (at least from the point of view of Irish nationalists) even though both, for a period, claimed dominion of one sort or another over Ireland, but then there is the O Conor Don:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Conor_Don
"According to the obituary published in the Irish Times on 22 July 2000, "it is generally acknowledged that the holder of the title would be the foremost claimant to the Irish throne, if one were proposed. Over the last few hundred years, members of the O'Conor family have continued to contribute to the social, political, cultural and religious life of Ireland. The fact that they remained staunchly Catholic during the dark days of the Penal Laws in the eighteenth century, is a source of great pride."
What are FYM'rs views on monarchies? I think I'm not necessarily opposed to them provided that they are largely ceremonial.
It's kind of odd that the British royal family is largely Germanic in roots:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
Whereas the Stuart Jacobite line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism
though originating in the Scottish highlands, now mainly live in Germany, it appears:-
http://jacobite.ca/kings/index.htm
And as for Ireland - neither of the above lines are legitimate (at least from the point of view of Irish nationalists) even though both, for a period, claimed dominion of one sort or another over Ireland, but then there is the O Conor Don:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Conor_Don
"According to the obituary published in the Irish Times on 22 July 2000, "it is generally acknowledged that the holder of the title would be the foremost claimant to the Irish throne, if one were proposed. Over the last few hundred years, members of the O'Conor family have continued to contribute to the social, political, cultural and religious life of Ireland. The fact that they remained staunchly Catholic during the dark days of the Penal Laws in the eighteenth century, is a source of great pride."
What are FYM'rs views on monarchies? I think I'm not necessarily opposed to them provided that they are largely ceremonial.
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