Europe As It Should Be: Monarchs, Consorts, and Heirs, 2024

One problem monarchists have is that regarding some countries whose monarchies have been gone for a long time, particularly France, it's impossible for us to all agree on who the monarch should be today. Even regarding the extant monarchies, some monarchists fully embrace modern changes to succession laws while others resent them. On my website for several years I had about six different versions of this chart, some with images and some without, to try to appease different monarchist points of view. But as keeping them all updated with images working proved impossible, at the beginning of 2021 I forced myself to settle on maintaining only one. So this is my current thinking on who should be reigning in Europe. Among other considerations, I have ruled out any separatist or irredentist fantasies; existing borders would remain unchanged, though the countries of the former Habsburg Empire would share a common Emperor. (This approach would allow several countries that were under monarchical rule in 1914 to remain republics. I would love for Poland in particular to be a Kingdom again, but who the King should be is unclear.) Anyone who disagrees with this or that choice of mine is of course free to make his own chart. This is simply my proposal for a more monarchical Europe.

Country Sovereign Born Acceded Consort (born) Heir (born)

Kingdom of Bulgaria
King Simeon II		 16 Jun 1937 28 Aug 1943
Queen Margarita (1935)
Prince Boris (1997)

Kingdom of Serbia
King Alexander II		 17 Jul 1945 3 Nov 1970
Queen Katherine (1943)
Crown Prince Peter (1980)

Kingdom of Sweden
King Carl XVI Gustaf		 30 Apr 1946 15 Sept 1973
Queen Silvia (1943)
Crown Princess
Victoria (1977)

Kingdom of Portugal
King Duarte III		 15 May 1945 24 Dec 1976
Queen Isabel (1966)
Afonso, Prince of
Beira (1996)

Kingdom of Montenegro
King Nikola II		 7 Jul 1944 24 Mar 1986
Crown Prince Boris (1980)

Principality of Liechtenstein
Prince Hans Adam II		 14 Feb 1945 13 Nov 1989
Her. Prince Alois (1968)

Kingdom of Norway
King Harald V		 21 Feb 1937 17 Jan 1991
Queen Sonja (1937)
Crown Prince
Haakon (1973)

Russian Empire
Empress Maria I		 23 Dec 1953 21 Apr 1992
Tsarevich Georgiy (1981)

Kingdom of Germany
High King Georg Friedrich I		 10 Jun 1976 26 Sept 1994
High Queen Sophie (1979)		 Crown Prince
Carl Friedrich (2013)

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Grand Duke Henri		 16 Apr 1955 7 Oct 2000
Grand Duchess
Maria Teresa (1956)
Her. Grand Duke
Guillaume (1981)

Principality of Monaco
Prince Albert II		 14 Mar 1958 6 Apr 2005
Princess Charlene (1978)
Prince Jacques (2014)

Imperial Commonwealth
(Austria, Hungary, Bohemia,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia)
Emperor Karl II		 11 Jan 1961 4 Jul 2011
Crown Prince
Ferdinand (1997)

Kingdom of Albania

King Leka II		 26 Mar 1982 30 Nov 2011
Queen Elia (1983)
Crown Princess Geraldine
(2020)

Kingdom of the Netherlands
King Willem-Alexander		 27 Apr 1967 30 Apr 2013
Queen Maxima (1971)
Catherina Amalia,
Princess of Orange (2003)

Kingdom of Belgium
King Philippe		 15 Apr 1960 21 Jul 2013
Queen Mathilde (1973)
Princess Elisabeth,
Duchess of Brabant (2001)

Kingdom of Spain
King Felipe VI		 30 Jan 1968 19 Jun 2014
Queen Letizia (1972)
Leonor, Princess
of Asturias (2005)

Kingdom of Romania
Queen Margareta		 26 Mar 1949 5 Dec 2017
Prince Radu (1960)
Princess Elena
(1950)

Kingdom of France
King Jean IV		 19 May 1965 21 Jan 2019
Queen Philomena (1977)
Prince Gaston,
Dauphin (2009)

Kingdom of Italy
King Aimone		 13 Oct 1967 1 Jun 2021
Queen Olga (1971)
Prince Umberto (2009)

United Kingdom of Great
Britain & Northern Ireland
King Charles III		 14 Nov 1948 8 Sept 2022
Queen Camilla (1947)
Prince William,
Prince of Wales (1982)

Kingdom of Greece
King Pavlos II		 20 May 1967 10 Jan 2023
Queen Marie-Chantal (1968)
Crown Prince
Constantine (1998)

Kingdom of Denmark
King Frederik X		 26 May 1968 14 Jan 2024
Queen Mary (1972)
Crown Prince
Christian (2005)

European Sovereigns
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