Line of succession to the former Greek throne

note:
As of August 2020.

See also:
Line of succession to the former Monarchical throne and others : From (deleted) Wikipedia’s articles.


The Greek monarchy was abolished by the then-ruling military regime on 1 June 1973, an act that was repeated by plebiscite on 8 December 1974 after the regime’s fall. The title of king is used by the last reigning monarch, Constantine II (r. 1964–1973). His son, the Crown Prince Pavlos, who was born in 1967, is the heir apparent to the title.

Law of succession

According to Article 45 of the Greek Constitution of 1864 [1] and the Greek Constitution of 1911,[2] the crown descended according to primogeniture among the descendants of George I, males before females. In 1952, the succession clause was clarified to stipulate that the crown is inherited with preference to the descendants of the current king in order of primogeniture, the males taking preference,[3] i.e., the sovereign’s sons (and their descendants, in respective order) inherit according to seniority of age among siblings with males before females, followed by the sovereign’s daughters (and their descendants, in respective order) in like manner.

Current situation

  • King Paul (1901–1964)
    • King Constantine II (born 1940)
      • (1) Crown Prince Pavlos (b. 1967)
        • (2) Prince Constantine-Alexios (b. 1998)
        • (3) Prince Achileas-Andreas (b. 2000)
        • (4) Prince Odysseus-Kimon (b. 2004)
        • (5) Prince Aristidis-Stavros (b. 2008)
        • (6) Princess Maria-Olympia (b. 1996)
      • (7) Prince Nikolaos (b. 1969)
      • (8) Prince Philippos (b. 1986)
      • (9) Princess Alexia (b. 1965)
        • (10) Carlos Morales y de Grecia (b. 2003)
        • (11) Arrietta Morales y de Grecia (b. 2002)
        • (12) Ana-Maria Morales y de Grecia (b. 2005)
        • (13) Amelia Morales y de Grecia (b. 2007)
      • (14) Princess Theodora (b. 1983)
    • (15) Princess Irene (b. 1942)

 

 

Line of Succession in June 1973

  • King Paul (1901–1964)
    • King Constantine II (born 1940)
      • (1) Crown Prince Pavlos (b. 1967)
      • (2) Prince Nikolaos (b. 1969)
      • (3) Princess Alexia (b. 1965)
    • (4) Princess Irene (b. 1942)

Line of succession to the former Portuguese throne

note:
As of July 2020.

See also:
Line of succession to the former Monarchical throne and others : From (deleted) Wikipedia’s articles.


The Portuguese monarchy was abolished on 5 October 1910, when King Manuel II was deposed following a republican revolution. The present head of the House of Braganza, the former ruling house, is Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, a position he has held since the death of his father, Duarte Nuno, in 1976.[1] The succession law for the former Portuguese throne was male-preference cognatic primogeniture.[1][2]

Rules of succession

The 1822, 1826 and 1838 constitutions, as well as the 1842 revival of the 1826 constitutional charter, confirmed cognatic primogeniture among the legitimate issue of the then-reigning monarch and, in case of their extinction, among collateral descendants of the Braganza dynasty.[3] That had been the customary succession in pre-constitutional Portugal.[2]

The 1838 constitution was replaced in 1842 by reviving the 1826 Constitutional Charter of Portugal. Among other things, the 1826 charter stipulated that, should there be no eligible descendants of Maria II of Portugal, the crown would pass to a collateral heir.[2]

Maria II has living legitimate descendants today, but they are not Portuguese citizens and make no claim to represent the royal line of Portugal.

Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu, the eldest son of Miguel, Duke of Braganza, renounced his succession rights for himself and his descendants on 21 July 1920.

Line of succession in October 1910

  • Queen Maria II (1819–1853)
    • King Luís I (1838–1889)
      • King Carlos I (1863–1908)
        • King Manuel II (born 1889)
      • (1) Infante Afonso, Prince Royal and Duke of Porto (b. 1865)
    • (2) Infanta Antónia, Princess of Hohenzollern (b. 1845)

Family of the current Miguelist claimant

The Miguelist claim to the Portuguese throne rests with:

  • Head of the Royal House of Portugal: Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza,[1] great-grandson of Miguel I.

The immediate heirs to his claim, in order of succession, are numbered below:[1]

  • King John VI (1767–1826)
    • King Pedro IV (1798–1834)
      • Queen Maria II (1819–1853)
        • King Pedro V (1837–1861)
        • King Luís I (1838–1889)
          • King Carlos I (1863–1908)
            • King Manuel II (1889–1932)
    • King Miguel I (1802–1866)
      • Infante Miguel, Duke of Braganza (1853–1927)
        • Prince Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (1907–1976)
          • Prince Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (born 1945)
            • (1) Prince Afonso, Prince of Beira (b. 1996)
            • (2) Infante Dinis, Duke of Porto (b. 1999)
            • (3) Infanta Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra (b. 1997)
          • (4) Infante Miguel, Duke of Viseu (b. 1946)

 

 

Princess Kalina of Bulgaria

note:
As of August 2020.

See also:
Line of succession to the former Monarchical throne and others : From (deleted) Wikipedia’s articles.


Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
Born (1972-01-19) 19 January 1972 (age 48)
Madrid, Spain
Spouse
Kitín Muñoz

(m. 2002)

Issue Prince Simeon Hassan
House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
Father Simeon II of Bulgaria
Mother Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela
Religion Roman Catholic

Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, Duchess in Saxony, Countess of Murany[1][2] (born 19 January 1972), is the fifth child and only daughter of the former Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and his wife, Doña Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela. Simeon II left Bulgaria as a child in 1945 when the country ceased to be a monarchy by referundum. He was then elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2001.

Biography

Kalina earned her secondary education in the Lycée Francais de Madrid and in addition to her native Spanish, she speaks French, English, Italian, German and some Bulgarian. She is an unconventional Royal, often expressing herself through fashion which includes unusual clothing, hairstyle, and makeup. She is a vegetarian, and her interests include fashion, art, furniture restoration, painting, and animal rights. She was baptised a Catholic.

Marriage and issue

On 26 October 2002, at 30 years old, Kalina married Antonio “Kitín” Muñoz y Valcárcel, a noted Spanish sea explorer, born in 1958 in Sidi Ifni, Morocco. They have a 14-year age difference. The royal wedding was the subject of a television documentary. The wedding ceremony was Roman Catholic at Tsarska Bistritsa, but was followed by an Eastern Orthodox blessing.[3]

On 22 October 2006 it was announced that Kalina and Kitín were expecting their first child.[4] Princess Kalina gave birth to a healthy boy on 14 March 2007 at Lozenets Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria. The baby’s name, Simeon Hassan Muñoz, is in honour of his grandfather Simeon II of Bulgaria and the late Hassan II of Morocco (because of the friendship between the two royal families).[5][6][7] Earlier reports had claimed that the name would have been Simeon Francisco Javier.[8] Simeon was baptised an Orthodox Christian in Bulgaria on 25 April 2008. His godparents are King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark.[9] In 2015, Princess Kalina, her husband Kitín Muñoz, and their son Simeon Hassan were living in Rabat (Morocco).[10]

Line of succession to the former Hessian throne

note:
As of July 2020.

See also:
Line of succession to the former Monarchical throne and others : From (deleted) Wikipedia’s articles.


The Electorate of Hesse was abolished in 1866 when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia, while the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine came to an end in 1918. Like most former German realms of the Holy Roman Empire the succession in Hessian lands was semi-Salic, with the nearest female kinswoman of the last male inheriting the crown upon extinction of the dynasty in the male line. The current pretender to both Hessian thrones is Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse, from the electoral line of the family, which inherited its claim to the grand duchy following the death of Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine in 1968. Donatus became head of the House of Hesse on the death of his father, Prince Moritz, in 2013. Landgrave Donatus is the titular Grand Duke and Elector of Hesse.

Hesse-Kassel

  • Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868-1940)
    • Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896-1980)
      • Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (1923-2013)
        • Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse (born 1966)
          • (1)Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Hesse (born 2007)
          • (2)Prince August of Hesse (born 2012)
        • (3) Prince Philipp of Hesse (born 1970)
          • (4) Prince Tito of Hesse (born 2008)
    • Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901-1943)
      • (5) Prince Karl Adolf of Hesse (born 1937)
        • (6) Prince Christoph of Hesse (born 1969)
      • (7) Prince Rainer of Hesse (born 1939)

 

 

Line of Succession in 1866

  • Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720-1785)
    • William I, Elector of Hesse (1743-1821)
      • William II, Elector of Hesse (1777-1847)
        • Frederick William, Elector of Hesse (born 1802)
    • Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747-1837)
      • (1) Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (born 1787)
        • (2) Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (born 1820)
          • (3) Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (born 1854)
          • (4) Prince Alexander Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (born 1863)
      • (5) Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel (born 1790)
      • (6) Prince Georg Karl of Hesse-Kassel (born 1793)

Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld and Hesse-Philippsthal

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld was annexed by Prussia in 1866. The main branch of Hesse-Philippsthal was extinguished in 1925, thus making the Barchfeld branch the only surviving one of the Hesse-Philippsthal line.

  • Chlodwig, titular Landgrave 1905–54, inherited Hesse-Philippsthal as well in 1925 (1876–1954)
    • Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1905–1942)
      • Wilhelm, titular Landgrave 1954–present (born 1933)
        • (1) Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 1963)
          • (2) Prince Wilhelm Ernst of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 2005)
          • (3) Prince Philipp August of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 2006)
          • (4) Prince Konrad of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 2007)
        • Prince Otto of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1965-2020)
          • (5) Prince Max of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 1999)
          • (6) Prince Moritz of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 2007)
          • (7) Prince Leopold of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 2009)
      • Prince Hermann of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1935-2019)[1]
        • (8) Prince Alexis of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 1977)

 

 

Lines of Succession in 1866

  • Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1655-1721)
    • Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1682-1770)
      • William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1726-1810)
        • Ernest Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1771-1849)
          • Charles II, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (born 1803)
            • (1) Hereditary Prince Ernest of Hesse-Philippsthal (born 1846)
    • William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1692-1761)
      • Adolph, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1743-1803)
        • Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1784-1854)
          • Alexis, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 1829)
          • (1) Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 1831)

Line of Succession to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in November 1918

  • Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
    • (1) Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1906)
    • (2) Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1908)

Caroline Worsley, Lady Worsley

note:
As of August 2020.

See also:
Line of succession to the former Monarchical throne and others : From (deleted) Wikipedia’s articles.


The Honourable

Lady Worsley
Personal details
Born
Caroline Dewar

(1934-02-12) 12 February 1934 (age 86)
Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Spouse(s)
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife

(m. 1956; div. 1966)

Richard Worsley

(m. 1980; died 2013)

Children
  • Lady Alexandra Etherington
  • David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife
Parents
  • Henry Dewar, 3rd Baron Forteviot
  • Cynthia Starkie

Caroline Cecily Worsley, Lady Worsley[1] (née Dewar; born 12 February 1934), is a Scottish aristocrat. She is the former wife of the 3rd Duke of Fife and the widow of General Sir Richard Worsley.[2]

Early life

Lady Worsley was born Miss Caroline Dewar at Bardowie Castle at Milngavie, a suburb in Glasgow, Scotland, to The Honourable Henry Evelyn Alexander Dewar, a younger son of the 1st Baron Forteviot. Her mother was the former Cynthia Monica Starkie. She had a younger brother, John James Evelyn.

Her father’s half-brother was John Dewar, 2nd Baron Forteviot. He was 49 and childless, and even at her birth it seemed likely that Caroline’s father would become the 3rd Baron. This expectation was met when Lord Forteviot died childless on 24 October 1947. When her father succeeded as 3rd Baron Forteviot, Miss Dewar became The Honourable Caroline Dewar.

First marriage

Miss Dewar became engaged to the then-Lord Carnegie in May 1956. Lord Carnegie was the son of the 11th Earl of Southesk (1893–1992), and Princess Maud of Fife (1893–1945), and heir-apparent to Lord Southesk’s Earldom. Lord Carnegie’s maternal aunt, Princess Arthur of Connaught, was the Duchess of Fife in her own right, and Lord Carnegie was also the heir-presumptive to that Dukedom, as Princess Arthur’s only child was no longer living. Through his mother, Princess Maud, Lord Carnegie was a great-grandson of King Edward VII.

Miss Dewar and Lord Carnegie were married on 11 September 1956 at Perth in Perthshire. She thus became Lady Carnegie. They had three children.

  • Stillborn son (4 April 1958)
  • The Lady Alexandra Clare Carnegie (born 20 June 1959) m. London 11 May 2001 Mark Fleming Etherington, and has issue.
  • David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife (born 3 March 1961), styled Earl of Macduff (by courtesy) from birth until his paternal grandfather’s death 16 February 1992, thereafter styled Earl of Southesk until 22 June 2015; m. 16 July 1987 Caroline Anne Bunting (born 13 November 1961); and has issue.

Lord Carnegie’s aunt, Princess Arthur of Connaught, died on 26 February 1959. At that point, he became the 3rd Duke of Fife and Lady Carnegie became Her Grace The Duchess of Fife. However, the Duchess was not to have that position forever. In December 1966, the Duke and Duchess of Fife were divorced. On account of this, the Duchess lost the style of Her Grace and became known as Caroline, Duchess of Fife.

Second marriage

On 7 November 1980, she remarried, at the age of 46, to General Sir Richard Worsley at London, England. She thereafter became The Honourable Lady Worsley. She has no children from this marriage.

Titles and styles

  • 12 February 1934 – 24 October 1947: Miss Caroline Dewar
  • 24 October 1947 – 11 September 1956: The Honourable Caroline Dewar
  • 11 September 1956 – 26 February 1959: Lady Carnegie
  • 26 February 1959 – December 1966: Her Grace The Duchess of Fife
  • December 1966 – 7 November 1980: Caroline, Duchess of Fife
  • 7 November 1980 – present: The Honourable Lady Worsley