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.

CountrySovereignBornAccededConsort (born)Heir (born)

Kingdom of Bulgaria
King Simeon II		16 Jun 193728 Aug 1943
Queen Margarita (1935)
Prince Boris (1997)

Kingdom of Serbia
King Alexander II		17 Jul 19453 Nov 1970
Queen Katherine (1943)
Crown Prince Peter (1980)

Kingdom of Sweden
King Carl XVI Gustaf		30 Apr 194615 Sept 1973
Queen Silvia (1943)
Crown Princess
Victoria (1977)

Kingdom of Portugal
King Duarte III		15 May 194524 Dec 1976
Queen Isabel (1966)
Afonso, Prince of
Beira (1996)

Kingdom of Montenegro
King Nikola II		7 Jul 194424 Mar 1986
Crown Prince Boris (1980)

Principality of Liechtenstein
Prince Hans Adam II		14 Feb 194513 Nov 1989
Her. Prince Alois (1968)

Kingdom of Norway
King Harald V		21 Feb 193717 Jan 1991
Queen Sonja (1937)
Crown Prince
Haakon (1973)

Russian Empire
Empress Maria I		23 Dec 195321 Apr 1992
Tsarevich Georgiy (1981)

Kingdom of Germany
High King Georg Friedrich I		10 Jun 197626 Sept 1994
High Queen Sophie (1979)		Crown Prince
Carl Friedrich (2013)

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Grand Duke Henri		16 Apr 19557 Oct 2000
Grand Duchess
Maria Teresa (1956)
Her. Grand Duke
Guillaume (1981)

Principality of Monaco
Prince Albert II		14 Mar 19586 Apr 2005
Princess Charlene (1978)
Prince Jacques (2014)

Imperial Commonwealth
(Austria, Hungary, Bohemia,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia)
Emperor Karl II		11 Jan 19614 Jul 2011
Crown Prince
Ferdinand (1997)

Kingdom of Albania

King Leka II		26 Mar 198230 Nov 2011
Queen Elia (1983)
Crown Princess Geraldine
(2020)

Kingdom of the Netherlands
King Willem-Alexander		27 Apr 196730 Apr 2013
Queen Maxima (1971)
Catherina Amalia,
Princess of Orange (2003)

Kingdom of Belgium
King Philippe		15 Apr 196021 Jul 2013
Queen Mathilde (1973)
Princess Elisabeth,
Duchess of Brabant (2001)

Kingdom of Spain
King Felipe VI		30 Jan 196819 Jun 2014
Queen Letizia (1972)
Leonor, Princess
of Asturias (2005)

Kingdom of Romania
Queen Margareta		26 Mar 19495 Dec 2017
Prince Radu (1960)
Princess Elena
(1950)

Kingdom of France
King Jean IV		19 May 196521 Jan 2019
Queen Philomena (1977)
Prince Gaston,
Dauphin (2009)

Kingdom of Italy
King Aimone		13 Oct 19671 Jun 2021
Queen Olga (1971)
Prince Umberto (2009)

United Kingdom of Great
Britain & Northern Ireland
King Charles III		14 Nov 19488 Sept 2022
Queen Camilla (1947)
Prince William,
Prince of Wales (1982)

Kingdom of Greece
King Pavlos II		20 May 196710 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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