Funny how you mention Maria Gabriela because there’s a rumor that she is dating Dinis.
I've also heard of it, I've no idea if it's true or not but it would be a nice match. They are fourth cousins once-removed through their shared descent from King Christian IX of Denmark.
Yes. Afonso and Anastasia would make a beautiful couple.
Very cool if true, would love to see at least one of the young reigning royals marry another royal.
And yet every other title a woman holds in Spain can be shared with her husband (except infanta but an infante can’t share his title with his wife either because of a gender-blind decision Juan Carlos made). I would think that male titles having precedence over female titles would be something society would move past.
Isn’t the argument that monarchies should stick to their traditions? Therefore Juan Carlos shouldn’t have gone against Spain’s tradition to go along with what the other monarchies were doing and unequal consort titles in the other monarchies is rooted in inequality against women, not men.
“Consort of the queen” could be either prince consort or king consort.In fact, Juan Carlos' royal decree (with government approval) only tried to give clarity to the article 58 in the Spanish Constitution "la Reina consorte o el consorte de la Reina". Meaning the consort queen or the consort of the queen, which literally means that in the Spanish Constitution there is no provision for a king consort.
The only male consort so far of the unified Spain was a king consort.
If he isn’t going to have an easy job he should at least receive an equivalent title to what the female consorts have received (and what the only other male consort of Spain so far received). You can’t deny that it’s strange that he’ll be Prince of Asturias when married to the Princess of Asturias but only a prince when his wife becomes queen.
Also Princess Laetitia of Liechtenstein.
Even rarer then a royal/royal marriage now a days is one of two vastly different religions.
People can always convert.
I think it’s more common for people to convert from Catholicism or orthodoxy to Protestantism for example than for people to convert to Christianity, Islam or Buddhism
Many women and men have converted to Islam when marrying into Muslim Royal houses.
Yes But almost all of them were commoners, it would be really hard for a Christian prince/ss of a reigning house to convert to Islam
The last king of Sikkim married the American Hope Cooke and she did not officially convert to Buddhism.
Why hard? Potential familiar and popular resistance aside and while there might be legal implications with a conversion nobody could do anything to prevent it.
While she never formally converted she practiced Budhism since childhood. Not a matter of her adopting husband's religion.
Yes. She certainly tried to make herself sound cool and edgy with that claim. I have her autobiography. I take a lot of it with a grain of salt.
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Oh, Afonso & Luisa Maria would make a beautiful royal couple.
I can imagine that a similar thing would happen if two monarchs/heirs were to marry today then. I know the Swedish heir is barred from marrying another heir but idk exactly which other heirs are.
Given your great concern for what people are called, it’s not especially nice, gender-equalizing, nor is it accurate to refer to her as “Bloody Mary”. She had a notably difficult, sad life herself and her father had far more people put to death, for one thing.
That nickname is so woven into the culture that I didn’t realize it was problematic, that would be my bad.
Did Mary I of England and Philip II of Spain ever live together while they were monarchs of their own countries and consorts of each other’s? How would living arrangements work in such a marriage? And if one child inherited the crowns of two countries I can imagine that they would divide their time between the countries and appoint viceroys for when they’re not present. I’m only now realizing that Mary, Queen of Scots and Francis II of France are another example of such an arrangement that didn’t result in children.
She would need to convert but Princess Salma of Jordan could marry Afonso or Dinis.
