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Viking_Mudcrap posted...

So, just because he is from "royal blood" means he has the knowledge to rule a nation that he has NEVER lived in?

You're acting like this hasn't been the guiding principle of monarchy for thousands of years worth of human history.

There's ALWAYS been a perception that royal blood is more important than pretty much ANYTHING. After all, you can put pretty much any asshole on the throne and surround him with advisors, counselors, or puppetmasters who make all the decisions for him. But what you can't do is take the most gifted commoner and magically give him royal blood, heritage, and the divine right of kings bestowed by whatever higher power you believe in.

England, 1714. Queen Anne, last surviving ruler of the House of Stuart, dies without leaving an heir. The British trace established bloodlines back to the nearest existing descendant of King James I (his great-grandson) who happens to be a middle-aged German-born noble. They immediately whisk him off to England, where he is crowned George I (establishing the House of Hanover) - in spite of the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about Britain, and literally cannot speak English (to the point where the citizens tend to look down on him for being an idiot, and otherwise have very little respect or reverence for him). His son (George II) was also born in Germany and was about 30 years old the first time he ever saw England, and HIS son (George III) is the one we always think of generally doing nothing other than being the king who lost the American colonies and then eventually going insane.

And while the house name changed after Queen Victoria (because royal lines pass through male lines, not female), that same line of kings that started with a German and which contained at least one lunatic, one sex addict, and one borderline Nazi (who almost became king shortly before WWII) is still the bloodline sitting on the throne today.

(Technically speaking, the House should change again once the current Queen Elizabeth's heir inherits, but they actually passed a law in the 1950s specifically to change that, because she wasn't having none of that shit.)

It only feels weird to you because we don't really think that way anymore, and because you didn't grow up in a monarchy.


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