Who now realises that there are still 16 sovereign Guelph monarchies in the world, even if all of their monarchs are the same person? Let there be a seventeenth. A political entity such as it is proposed that Euroland become is properly capped by a monarchical rather than a republican institution.
However ironically, if that is quite the word, for a party with its roots in support for Papacy against the pretensions of the civil power, the Head of the Guelphs is our own dear Queen's cousin and godson, Prince Ernst of Hanover. Let him become Emperor of Europe, with his wife, Princess Caroline of Monaco, as the impeccably Latin and Catholic Empress, though also with strong ties to Ireland and the United States.
All in time for the centenary of the First World War, and with it the lifting of the suspension, which is all that it ever was, of his ancestral titles as Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland. After all, most of Ireland will be in his Realm.
Over to the Ghibellines. If they think that they can beat that. Although I cannot see how.
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I assume this is a joke. Reading between the lines of the Wikipedia biography, he seems to be a drunk.
ReplyDeleteIf Europe wants a monarch, wouldn't Karl von Hapsburg be the logical choice?
I think you are onto something. The Hanoverians have been Emperors of India, so why not Emperors of Europe? They are not Indians, but they are Europeans.
ReplyDeleteThere can never be a President of this thing, in what language would the presidential debates on television be conducted? Might as well have a monarch instead, like the UK, or Belgium, or Canada, or Austria-Hungary, or Prussia with its Poles, or The Spains, or All The Russias.
He is not the Head of our own reigning House of Guelph, Ed. Anyway, either a Hapsburg or a Bourbon would be far too controversial. We brought in the Hanoverians because a Bourbon cousin was too much for us. They and the Hapsburgs have both wanted the whole of Europe for a very long time. Better for their souls never to give it to either of them.
ReplyDeleteIreland (the whole thereof) is rightfully a territory of the legitimate king of Spain: see here, here, here and here.
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