On Newsnight, Michael Crick claimed that the "Traitor Peers" - three of the Royal Family's German relatives, plus an Austro-Irish nobleman - who had to be stripped of their peerages for fighting on the other side in the First World War, had been punished for their "business dealings" with Germany!
The peerages themselves were never suppressed, so 2014 would be a good time to restore them to the rightful heirs, as the legislation provides for. Princess Caroline of Monaco as Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Countess of Armagh, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland? Well, her bachelor brother shows no sign of producing legitimate issue, so the union of these and the old Throne of Hanover with that of Monaco seems only a generation away.
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it's not Cruft's, you know.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is not. No one could accuse Royal Families of ebing hostile to miscegnation.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, do Prince Ernst and Princess Catoline have any children together? If so, then will the next Head of the House of Hanover (not to say Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh, and Prince of Great Britain and Ireland) be a Catholic?
they have a daughter together - Princess Alexandra
ReplyDeleteOh, now there's a question. The Cumberland line got in the first place because the Kent line couldn't have it, since that line had produced Queen Victoria, and Hanover had the Salic Law.
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