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The House of Windsor probably should worry. It's not rational to blame Andrew's association with Epstein and implication in accusations on monarchy (after all, Donald Trump (Jane Doe v. Epstein and Trump), Bill Richardson (Virginia Roberts Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell), an unnamed foreign...

It'll never happen, though. Denmark does not have any interest in selling Greenland, and Greenlanders have absolutely no interest in Greenland becoming a U.S. territory. As it stands, Greenlanders have voting representation in the Danish Rigsdagen, and are on a path that has led them to have...

At any rate, I heard that Epstein's victims are furious (understandably so) now. Everything's going to be swept back under the rug, it seems.

Honestly, I don't care what happens to Epstein as a principle in itself. However, it is imperative that no harm be allowed to befall him that will prevent him from ratting out his friends—he needs to be kept safe until he's divulged all he knows. Otherwise, quite a few child rapists will be able...

This really does not contradict my statement that the Arab countries did not develop an indigenous system of titled nobility, and consequently there are not likely to be many Arab royals who are descended from nobility. Descendance from the Prophet Muhammad is not the same thing as the concept...

Which brings to mind yet another prestige boost for the House of Hashim: Prince Ra'ad's eldest son, Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, I believe, deserves a lot of respect for his tenure as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He made a few very powerful enemies, but he was...

For a couple of really old examples of royal women who had illegitimate children, Charlemagne's daughters, Rotrude and Bertha, produced one and two illegitimate sons, respectively.

I'm fairly sure it doesn't qualify him as one of the saddest royals per se, but the conversations that George III of the United Kingdom was said to have had with his long-dead children while he was suffering from the effects of dementia are certainly heartbreaking to think about. He was said...

There's also the Republican Palace. The present Republican Palace was originally envisioned as a royal palace. Faisal II commissioned its construction with the intent that it would become the new permanent seat of the Iraqi monarchy, but he never had the opportunity to actually live in it...

In fact, they're directly descended from Muhammad if you count the female line (the Hashemite dynasty descends in the male line from Hasan ibn Ali, who was one of the two sons of Muhammad's cousin, Ali, and Muhammad's daughter, Fatimah bint Muhammad). So, yeah, the Hashemite dynasty is packing...

I'm not sure if Faisal II married Genevieve, or if they were merely engaged—sources seem to disagree. What I do know is that Abd al-Karim Qasim's object in killing royal family members was to prevent any continuance or restoration of the monarchy; for that object he only really needed to have...

Faisal II was a minor for most of his reign, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah having served as regent for the entirety of the King's minority, except for a brief period in 1941. On April 1, 1941, former Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani launched a pro-German coup that overthrew the regency under Prince...

Granted, that lawsuit was dropped shortly after the 2016 United States presidential election. The question of why the lawsuit was dropped is open to interpretation. One such interpretation could be that the entire lawsuit was a partisan hit job meant to derail Trump's presidential campaign...

I understand that caution needs to be exercised, but, back in 2016, he was alleged to have done a bit more than that...

One thing, the BRF definitely isn't alone in getting hit with the fallout from this. Both of the major political parties in the United States definitely want this to go away, as both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump have also come under fire for their ties to Epstein (in fact, there have been...

Yes. When the 14 July Revolution broke out, Faisal II ordered the Royal Guard to stand down, but that did not save his life. The executions the followed snuffed out the male lines of both Faisal I and Ali of Hejaz. Prince Zeid bin Hussein (the youngest brother of Ali of Hejaz, Abdullah I of...

It's basically to curtseying as full prostration is to bowing. Make no mistake, Texas is a part of Dixie. The antebellum planter aristocracy of the South (the "American gentry") was the closest thing the United States ever had to landed nobility, and many southerners still yearn for that...

I wonder what the reaction would be if someone performed a perfectly-executed Texas dip upon meeting a monarch. I am fairly sure that would be seen as way too much, but I'm not 100% certain.

The fact that Germany recognizes her surname to be Prinzessin von Sachsen does not mean she is a princess any more than Dwight Eisenhower was an iron hewer, Margaret Thatcher made thatched roofs, or Bob Dylan (whose surname by birth was Zimmerman) builds houses. Having the title of princess...

I was mistaken. Leandro was never given the title of Infante. "Légitimé" wasn't really a title either, though, but rather a shortening of "prince légitimé", wherein "légitimé" serves as a qualifier indicating the the prince in question, unlike the princes du sang (who were all legitimate), was...

At the risk of creating another tangent: Is the Spanish title infante de gracia then roughly equivalent to the French title légitimé? Well, of course not generally, seeing as it can be granted to anyone, but when granted to a (legitimized) bastard, would they then be somewhat equivalent?

If money allowed someone to become a royal, Bill Gates would be the Supreme Emperor of Earth. Now, there's only one case in recent history that comes to my mind of a bastard being given a royal title, that being Leandro Alfonso Luis de Borbón Ruiz Austria, the illegitimate half-uncle of...

I don't think money would ever change things. The old European feudal elite has always snobbishly looked down on the new capitalist elite, seeing even the wealthiest of the haute bourgeoisie as nothing more than vulgar and ostentatious nouveau riche, entirely lacking in proper breeding and...

One way to look at it would be that, with the abolition of the German monarchy and the abolition of state recognition of royal and noble titles, the royal and noble houses of Germany effectively became, in addition to being families, private societies that have the right to determine the...

Having royal blood is an inane criterion. Yes, she has royal blood; in some quantity, so do all other Europeans, probably all Asians, and most, if not all, Africans (and including, for this purpose, residents of the Americas, Australia, etc. who are of European, Asian, and African extract as...