#Monarchy of Luxembourg

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Royal Engagement News

Princess Iman, the eldest daughter of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, is set to marry Jameel Alexander Thermiotis.

Thermiotis was born to a Greek family in Caracas, Venezuela. He now works in New York City as a managing partner at a venture capital firm.

According to Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Rajwa is the youngest daughter of Saudi businessman Khalid bin Musaed bin Saif bin Abdulaziz al-Saif and his wife, Azza bint Nayef Abdulaziz Ahmed al-Sudairi.

Raised in Sauda Arabia, she has a bachelor's degree from the College of Architecture at Syracuse University in New York as well as a degree in Visual Communications from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. She previously worked at an architecture firm in L.A.

The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg announced in November 2022 that their only daughter, Princess Alexandra, is engaged to Nicholas Bagoy.

"Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess have the great joy of announcing the engagement of their daughter, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, to Mr Nicolas Bagory.

The two families join in the happiness of the engaged couple by surrounding them with their affection.

The civil wedding will take place on 22 April 2023 at the Town Hall of the City of Luxembourg.

The religious wedding will be celebrated on 29 April 2023 in the Saint Trophyme church in Bormes-les-Mimosas, with their affection."

Princess Alexandra, sixth in line to the Luxembourg throne, is an active working member of the royal family and a professional linguist.

Her fiancé, Nicolas Bagory, was born and raised in Brittany, France. He studied political science and classics at university.

According to the Court, he now works in "the creation of social and cultural projects." Per his LinkedIn, he is based in Paris and received a master's from the Sorbonne University in the French capital in Latin in 2014.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Are any of the current royal families related to the otma?

Hello anon! In fact, almost all of the royal families are distantly related to them! I don’t know if you would rather see it in a family tree style or if I just say it straight up and list the royals so I’m going to do both! Also I am only going to be listing the main ways that they are related, but if you want a real in depth version of each individual family (if you want to here all of the obscure and in depth ways,) message me and I will make a family tree or describe it like this for you!

British: King Charles III and OTMA are 2nd Cousins Twice Removed from each other through Queen Victoria.

Danish: King Fredrick X and OTMA are 2nd Cousins Twice Removed through King Christian IX of Denmark

Norwegian: King Harald V is 2nd Cousins Once Removed with OTMA twice, through Queen Victoria and King Christian IX

Dutch: King Willem Alexander of The Netherlands is 4th Cousins Once Removed with OTMA through Tsar Paul I of Russia

Belgian: King Phillipe of Belgium is 2nd Cousins Twice Removed with OTMA through King Christian IX of Denmark

Luxembourg: Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg is 2nd Cousins Twice Removed with OTMA through King Christian IX of Denmark. This also makes King Phillipe of Belgium first cousins with Grand Duke Henri

Spanish: King Felipe VI of Spain is 2nd Cousins Twice Removed with OTMA, twice. Once through Queen Victoria and once through King Christian XI of Denmark

There is no direct line that I know of that relates the houses of Monaco and Lichtenstein to OTMA (if anyone knows one please dm or comment!)

I hope this helps and thank you so much for asking!

[ldagence-royal]

Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau and Bourbon-Parma

[royal-confessions]

“I left a comment on Grand Duchess Maria Teresa’s Instagram to criticise her for sympathising with Zionists at the International Bazaar in Luxembourg and she and her team deleted my comment. She only wants praise. This is a woman who has a charity dedicated for women who were raped in war and sexually assaulted. Does she not realise that people from Palestine, regardless of their gender and age, have been tortured, killed, sexually assaulted and raped by Zionists? They hid the other comments, but deleted mine because I provided factual evidence to debunk lies told by Zionists.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“MT *happily* posing with “stand with Israel” genocide sympathizers at the International Bazaar this past weekend 🤮 🗑️” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and the co founder of stand, speak, rise up go on and on how their charity is to defend and help those that were sexually assaulted and r@ped in war, YET NOT ONCE have they talked about the men, women, children that were r@ped and sexually assaulted by Zionist terrorists, assaults happening YEARS BEFORE 7 Oct. Not once. It’s already proven that there is no evidence of assault or r@pe on 7 Oct and has been debunked with actual evidence. She and the rest of the LRF went out of their way to support Ukraine, even housing them, but absolutely nothing when it comes Palestine, Sudan, Haiti, Pakistan etc. Abolish the monarchy in Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden. Zionist terrorists supporters. If HM KCIII had any power, I guarantee you that he would be on Palestine’s side.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[fafayayarhen]

Yap more about Austria

why am i being enabled

this is a dangerous thing

because allow me to open the subject that it is criminally underwhelming how in the source material little is explored about Austria's relations to the low countries (Netherlands - Luxembourg - Belgium), Portugal, Liechtenstein, Bohemia (later Czechia) and Slovakia, Slovenia, given the extensive reach of the Habsburg reign when they became the running contenders for the imperial throne of Holy Roman emperor

in fact Austria in the series had so much potential to be fleshed out as a dominating force with a lot of connections if Himaruya had delved a little further into the significant role the duchy had been elevated to given how the Habsburg instrumentalised the duchy into their empirical domain, with Vienna as the capital the bigger they expanded

- The low countries before it became Spanish possessions had been another fief in the HRE. The Habsburgs managed to attain it by way of marriage through Maximilian I to Mary of Burgundy, the Burgundian monarchs having held the fief beforehand. The succession of the inheritance was through his heir, Philip, who married into the Spanish monarchy. When the thrones were unified under Charles V's ascension as emperor, son of Philip, grandson of Maximilian, that's how Spain got to enjoy the chunk of Habsburg domains similarly to Austria also having access to Spain's New Worlds posessions.

- Bohemia was prominent in claiming the Austrian duchy to better their chances at aiming for the throne. Not only was Ottokar already with a nomination, he was on good terms with the Austrian nobility. In turn, Austria would've been pretty good friends with lil Bohemia at the time before being forcefully ripped apart because a certain SOMEONE wanted to fuck Ottokar over. Bohemia was later another domain grouped into Habsburg possessions later into their long reign.

- Can I mention that as opposed to how the series depicted Liechtenstein to be by herself up till Switzerland found her, the kingdom was another fief in HRE. And of course when our favourite greedy schemers became the powerhouse ruling the empire, the little kingdom was another of their property and Liechtenstein and Austria maintained a fair, amicable relationship all the way to world war one. The only reason the territory was conceded included financial instability where they literally had no money left to help Liechtenstein out, so this battered single parent Austria had no other choice to send his (step) daughter away for Switzerland to take her in.

- Portugal. Was. An. Ally. During the war of the Spanish succession. Portugal and the Dutch, whilst their aim was to weaken the Spanish empire and chip away at their new world possessions, it was a mutual agreement between their coalition and the Austrian Habsburg. Not to mention during the joint-empire situation, Austrian monarchs married into Portuegese line to, some semblance of interaction would've made sense to portray these elements of how ridiculously LARGE the circle of network the Habsburg created.

- Don't get me started on Belgium.

- Did you know she spent some period of time in Habsburg Austria household before gaining independence? Part of the concessions following the war of the Spanish succession; prior to this, the Dutch already rebelled and became their own sovereign after detaching from the low countries. It left Belgium and Luxembourg, and they became Austrian-Netherlands when they reaffirmed their hold over this territory in the bunch of treaties that were signed following the war. So to see not a lick of interaction. Even acknowledgement. Not even EITHER of them ever having a moment with each other is so. Speaking of.

- The Belgian king tried to steal imperial treasure from Austria after WWI. Roderich would've given her and the king hell because they tried taking the order of the golden fleece amongst the other things. Have you any idea how hilarious that would be if Himaruya could depict that in the series? Austria would be so composed about it while taking jabs at her like oh remember the little kingdom who thought herself big daring to loot my treasury? Hmm?

- There is. So much. SO many potentially interesting, diverse elements to explore and grow aph Austria with. This is such a unique character considering this wealthy source of historical significance that played a huge part of reigning the longest and shifting the power balance throughout the continent not once, not twice, but three times because it all started with the over-eager Habsburg family that originated from Switzerland.

- Austria would've been the greatest conman to ever exist because that's how Habsburgs entered the bloody battle for the throne; convenient forgery and embellishment to legitimise their claim and marriage connections that solidified their backing. This prospect of grand ambitions single handedly shaped the way Roderich is as a person that he was empire first before reuniting with his personhood to the original roots of his Austrian self.

[mapsontheweb]

The Burgundian state, 1364-1487.

« Atlas historique mondial », Christian Grataloup, Les Arènes/L'Histoire, 2e éd., 2023

by cartesdhistoire

In 1363, the king of France, John the Good, gave Burgundy as an appanage to his son Philippe the Bold. Duke until 1404, he became master of a vast area, including Charolais, Artois, Franche-Comté, Rethel, Nevers and Brabant. His power made Flanders independent and it was a solid base for expansion in the Empire, continued by Duke Philip the Good (1419-1467): Namur, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Luxembourg ( in addition to a nebula of satellites like the ecclesiastical principalities of Liège, Utrecht and even Cologne).

The Burgundian “State” is therefore made up of two blocks of territories, both shared between France and the Empire: Burgundy (France) and Franche-Comté (Empire) are governed from Dijon; from Lille then from Brussels from 1430, Flanders, Artois (France) and the Netherlands (Empire). The frequent meeting of States within the framework of each province allows regular taxation, which makes the Duke one of the richest sovereigns in the West, the bulk of his income coming from Flanders and the Netherlands. The administrative structure is close to that of the French monarchy (aids, Chambers of Accounts, states, Parliament).

Duke Charles the Bold (1467-1477) tried to reunite the two blocks, barely 60 km apart after 1441. He centralized, increased taxes and borrowed enormous sums from banks to obtain an imposing army and artillery. He then aimed for Lorraine and the archbishopric of Cologne but his ambitions united his enemies against him: Louis XI, the emperor, Lorraine, Savoy and the Swiss. In 1475, the Swiss crushed Charles's army at Grandson and Morat then the duke died in 1477, trying to retake Nancy. He is succeeded by his daughter Marie who married Maximilien, son of the emperor. She died on March 27, 1482 and on December 23, the Treaty of Arras divided her inheritance between Valois and Habsburg.

[qsycomplainsalot]

The Quartering of Ravaillac

  Before the guillotine made French people equal, and before the abolition of capital punishment altogether made them equal and also not dead, tradition dictated that commoners be hanged and nobles beheaded. Two crimes however warranted a special kind of execution, being heresy with the condemned burnt at the stake and in this case regicide, which specifically demanded quartering for some reason.   François Ravaillac was the product of the French Wars of Religion, a series of conflicts during the Protestant Reformation that tore France appart, only ending when the leader of the Calvinist Huguenots Henri III de Bourbon, king of Navarre and issued from a cadet branch of the royal dynasty of France, succeeded to Henri III de Valois, king of France. The condition to his coronation was for him to convert to Catholicism, which he did, being quoted as saying “Paris is well worth a mass”.   Ravaillac was born in a staunchly catholic family, being raised by his two uncles, both canons in the local cathedral, to bear a fervent hatred of Huguenots. His instable mind led him to quit a well-off situation working as a clerk to try and join a monastic order, of which he was kicked out after only a few weeks. Now penniless and aimless, he started experiencing visions and confessed multiple times over the years of having committed “homicide through intent”, growing more and more resentful of the king whom he saw as the Antichrist ready to wage war on his people and move the Holy See from Rome to Paris.   After stealing a knife from an inn, he eventually graduated to “homicide through actual homicide” after stalking the royal carriage all the way to one of the traffic jams Paris is famous for, giving him the opportunity to stab the king twice in the chest when it stopped.

  Execution warrant for François Ravaillac from the Parisian parliament, headed with the name of king Louis XIII and bearing the later archival stamps of both the French Empire and French Republic. It describes the murder as a parricide, the murder of a relative, as the king was seen as a literal father figure to all his subjects.

  After being held in protective custody in a private hotel, then transferred to the Conciergerie prison and tortured/tried for ten days, Ravaillac was sentenced to death on the 27th of May 1610. His regicide was ruled to be the act of a lone religious fanatic without any accomplice. The same day, he was taken to the place de Grêve in front of Paris’ town hall, where public executions had traditionally been held for at least 300 years. All according to his execution warrant, Ravaillac’s chest, arms, thighs and calves were pulled apart with tongs; his right hand which had held the knife was cut off and thrown onto burning sulfur; his wounds were covered in molten lead, boiling oil, pitch, wax and sulfur; finally his limbs were attached to four horses, pulling them from their sockets - allegedly with some help from an axe - completing the quartering proper.

  Unfortunately for him and in a quite striking karmic twist, some insult was added to Ravaillac’s supplice, as his legacy was to cement Henri IV’s own as the Good King Henry. The king’s martyr at the hand of a madman garnered sympathy and dispelled his previous image of a Bourbon usurper with Catholics and of a relapse with Protestants, working wonders to unify the two under the new monarchy. Henri’s progeny would not only rule France for another 182 years without interruption, but Spain, Luxembourg and other holdings in Italy.

[tiaramania]

Royal Warrants

Royal Warrant Holders or Purveyors to the Court are companies or individuals who provide a good or service to the royal court. Not all companies the royal buy items from are issued royal warrants and just because a company has one doesn't mean that they are the exclusive supplier of that product. The companies chosen are usually older and have a history of working with the royal family. Each country has a slightly different set of rules but in most of them the warrants have to be renewed on a regular basis and can be revoked at any time.

I only included countries that I could find a list for like I know Spain issues royal warrants but I can't find a list of them. Some abolished monarchies like Romania still issue royal warrants and some countries like Japan and Norway don't issue them anymore despite still being monarchies.

Belgium - Fournisseur breveté de la Cour - 114 total

Ciel mes bijoux

Cosyns Joaillier - since 2018

Maison De Greef - since 1998

Leysen Frères - since 1982

Wolfers

Denmark - Kongelig Hofleverandør - 108 total

A. Dragsted - since 1898 - also crown jeweler

Georg Jensen - since 1924

Ole Lynggaard - since 2008

A. Michelsen - since 1848

Luxembourg - Fournisseur de la Cour - 56 total

Schroeder Joailliers - since 1914

Molitor Joaillerie - since 1967

Bijouterie Goedert - since 2020

Netherlands - Hofleverancier - 502 total - These are a little different because they don't have to actually be a supplier to the court to hold a royal warrant.

Steltman Juwelier

Fabery de Jonge Juweliersbedrijf

Hofland Juweliers

Henri Camps Juwelier

Kamerbeek Juwelier

Kiestra Juweliersbedrijf

Rikkoert Juweliersbedrijven In't Silverhuijs

Sellink Horlogemaker Goudsmid Juwelier

Vaessen Juweliers

Van Zijp Juweliers

Veerman Juwelen

Sweden - Kunglig Hovleverantör - 130 total

Bolin - also crown jeweler since 1916

Gaudy

United Kingdom - Royal Warrant Holders - Over 800 - In the UK, royal warrants are issued from individuals not by the court as a whole. In the past the monarch, consort, and heir have been able to grant them and some companies may have a warrant from multiple people at once. They are good for two years after the grantor passes away so at the moment there are some from Queen Elizabeth II (686 total) and the Duke of Edinburgh (38 total) that are up in the air. I expect King Charles (159 already) will issue new warrants to replace some given by his parents but not all of them. The only jeweler that does not already have one from him is G. Collins & Sons who were QEII's personal jewelers.

King Charles

Asprey - they have it on their website but they are not listed on the Royal Warrant Holders Association website

Bentley & Skinner

Cartier

Fiona Rae

Garrard - was crown jeweler from 1843 to 2007

Mappin & Webb - the crown jeweler has worked for them since 2012

Wartski

Queen Elizabeth II

Bentley & Skinner

G. Collins & Sons - was crown jeweler from 2007 to 2012

Mappin & Webb

Wartski

[celticcrossanon]

Historically, it's kind of interesting that when the sh-t hits the fan for various European monarchies, they all flee to the UK. Even during WW2, members of the Norwegian Royal Family, Greek Royal Family, Dutch Royal Family, Luxembourg Royal Family and so on all fled to the UK. I guess that's why the deposed last King of Greece lived most of his life in exile in the UK as the BRF were literally relatives of his.

Hi Nonny,

I think it is a combination of a) Queen Victoria marrying off her children all around Europe, so now most of the royal families are related in some way and can call on their relatives for help, and b) the UK being a safe space during the turmoil of WW2, with that image of the UK as a safe refuge continuing to this day. That is a simple explanation for what is undoubtedly a more complex topic. :)

You are right, it is interesting to see how the European monarchies reacted in times of stress and trouble.

[duchessofostergotlands]

I got a dumb question that literally is just me thinking hypotheticals when I can’t sleep. Let’s say Harry had gone off and had a child with someone, didn’t marry her at the time, but for whatever reason years later did and they have a second child. I know legally that child one would get nothing in terms of title and line of succession, but, like, considering the PR side of things, it feels like the current societal climate would cause there to be some pushback on making it more fair for both children… at least my American brain would think that way. So basically I guess my question is how do you think that scenario would play out? I guess actually my first question really should be how would 20-something Harry having an out of wedlock baby have played out, but that’s besides the point lol

I don't generally answer hypothetical questions. I can tell you what is legally possible for any British royal, but I won't guess what the response actually would have been or make it about Harry. Because if we assume a scenario where Harry had had an out of wedlock child, we can't reasonably assume that every other variable in his life would have been exactly the same. And that scenario could play out in a million different ways. There’s a massive difference between a situation like Louis and Tessy in Luxembourg who were a couple, had a child out of wedlock, and married six months later to one like Albert in Monaco who had a 2 week fling with an American on holiday and then she had his baby, who he didn’t meet until she was 11. Too many unknowns. So:

Anyone can be made a Prince/ss by the monarch through the issuing of a Letters Patent. It only automatically goes to legitimate children but the monarch can give the title to whoever.

Scottish titles (by which I mean titles created in Scotland before the establishment of Great Britain) are the only ones in the UK which can be inherited by a child who is legitimised after birth. But even then, the child is only considered to have been legitimate from the moment of their parents' marriage (see more here). All other peerages can't be inherited by illegitimate children no matter what. The way a title is inherited is stated at the time of the title's creation and cannot be changed after the fact. So for example Lord Mountbatten only had daughters so when the Earl Mountbatten of Burma title was created it said that it would pass to his eldest daughter and then her lawful heirs. So I suppose there probably isn't anything legally to stop a title from being created and the Letters Patent saying "it goes to this legitimised child" - this is a special remainder - but it would be unprecedented to my knowledge in the modern era and highly context dependent. If the royal already had a title when the child was legitimised then there's nothing that can be done. They would have to pass an Act of Parliament which revises how titles are inherited. That is a legal possibility but also very difficult (see something I wrote about women getting titles here). It isn't exactly the same but the important bit is that a change in the law would apply to 700 different families, not just one child.

They would not be in the line of succession because only legitimate children can be in the line of succession. That would also have to be changed by the government and would also have to be agreed by all other Commonwealth realms because succession impacts them too.

The important thing to remember is most of this stuff is not within the royal family's control. Some of it isn't even entirely within the British government's control! So while it seems unfair, that's a monarchy for you! It's not a question of fairness or morality or family or any of that. It's about the efficient governance of the state. I am an illegitimate child myself - not that it matters, I wasn't in line to inherit anything! - but actually that has made me incredibly aware of how important your environment is to your development so my opinion on it would entirely change depending on the context.

[bestworstcase]

Do sovereign duchies have royal courts? Like does Rosalia have her own court? I ask because finding online information about sovereign duchies has been a pain in the ass so far.

a sovereign duchy and a kingdom are both monarchies with the difference being the title held by the monarch. governmental structures can vary widely (for historical exemplars, try "grand duchy"—for a modern day example, luxembourg) but any monarch is going to have a retinue or a court or a household in some form or another by virtue of ruling a country being a complicated endeavor

wrt bitter snow, quintonia is a parliamentary monarchy and rosalia has very little in the way of formal authority; the actual head of government is the first chancellor (isacco guilfoil), with rosalia's formal duties as the monarch being predominantly ceremonial in nature. the quintonian parliament acts in her name and she's the public face of the government, and in religious matters she's responsible for mediating between her people and quintonia's gods.

she does however exert quite a lot of influence over the parliament because 1. isacco is in her pocket, 2. she is popular enough with the general public that withholding royal assent for new laws she dislikes is tantamount to an informal veto, 3. while she has no vote, she does get to argue and she's very skilled at weaving coalitions together to make sure her priorities happen.

(<- this is how she gets away with dedicating so much time to scholarship and book-hunting; quintonia's monarch is a figurehead.)

[corbenic]

It’s always fascinating to see which monarchies have their members vote and which don’t. So far I’ve seen election posts from Belgium (highlighting new voters Elisabeth, Gabriel, Emmanuel, and Eléonore) and Luxembourg (stating that Guillaume and Stéphanie voted).

[ldagence-royal]

Princess Claire Margareta of Luxembourg - Wife of Prince Félix of Luxembourg

[hahahax30]

Visenya at 13, hearing Aurelian’s full title for the first time: Ugh that’s so obnoxious, why would anyone want to be called something so ostentatious? I would never punish my son or the pages by making him have some long puffed up mama

Visenya at age 20, returning to the Spring Court for the first time in three years: Please use my son’s full title; His Exalted Highness, Crown Prince Theomore, heir to the throne of the Autumn Court and son of the Noble and Ancient House de Lioncourt

Visenya’s own title as High Queen is Her Exalted Majesty Visenya Astraea Regina of the Noble and Ancient House de Lioncourt, High Queen of the Autumn Court; which is obviously a mouthful so she shouldn’t be complaining but girl does love to brag

And yes Aurelian’s title was the same as Theomore’s back when he was Crown Prince

And yes, her naming her son Theomore is a spoiler

Please Riley, as someone who actually lives in a kingdom with a whole-ass king, I can tell you that that isn't a mouthful of a full name.

*My* King's full name (titles included) is: His majesty Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbon y Grecia (aka Felipe VI of Spain), King of Spain, Castilla, Leon, Aragon Navarra, Granada, Jerusalem, Toledo, the Two Sicilies, Valencia, Galicia, Mallorca, Menorca, Sevilla, Sardinia, Cordoba, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, the East and West Indies, the 'Isles and Lands of the Oceanic Sea', Hungary, Dalmatia and Croatia; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Milan, Athens, Neopatras, Limburg, Lotharingia, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Styria, Carniola, Carinthia and Württemberg; Count of Habsburg, Flanders, the Tyrol, the Rousillon, Barcelona, Artois, Hainaut, Namur, Gorizia, Ferrette, Kyburg and Goceano; Count Palatine of Borgoña; Lord of Vizcaya, Molina, Salins-les-Bains, Mechelen, Slovenia, Pordenone and Tripoli; Landgrave of Alsace; Prince of Swabia; Marquis of Oristano; Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire and Burgau; Captain General of the Armed Forces; and I'll stop now but there are MORE

Because we have a parliamentary monarchy many of those titles hold no power or are merely symbolic (literally like the king himself because he does no-thing) and are reminiscent of the time we were the Spanish empire and total pieces of shit, but I do urge you to add more titles to your ocs lol

[royal-confessions]

“I was a Royal well wisher at Princess Alexandra’s civil wedding in Luxembourg (I work there), I was also there in Cabasson for her religious wedding (we were in Provence and drove by and stood by the steps) and I was there in Mafra for Infanta Maria Francisca (I was going to a party in Porto and stopped by) and I’m surprised that an abolished monarchy had the same amount of turn out, if not more. Infanta Maria Francisca’s wedding definitely felt more like a Royal Wedding! Tbh, people in Luxembourg don’t really know much about the Grand Ducal Family and most wouldn’t be able to pick out Felix/Claire/their kids, Louis and his kids, Alexandra/Nicolas and Sebastien from a crowd.” - Submitted by Anonymous