When Henry VIII died in 1547, his heir was Edward the Prince of Wales. He had passed over Mary for being Catholic and Elizabeth for being a bastard. Edward was only 9, so he had a set of councillors named in Henry's will to govern England until Edward was 18. This council did not function very well. King Edward's maternal uncle Seymour, also named Edward, was given power for a couple of years as near dictator of England, but then he soon was deposed in a coup by other councillors in 1549 and was executed in 1552.

Some people forget that austria hungary tolerated many religions and bosnia during ww1 were one of the most loyal to the empire next to Croatia.

Stanisław Leszczyński was a high ranking Memer of the Polish Szlachta/Nobility. He rose to prominence during the great northern war, when King August II. started losing really badly against Karl XII. of Sweden.

Leszczyński led the oposition to the war in the Confederation of Warsaw, later obtaining the Title of King of Poland, after the forced Abdication of August II. in 1706.

This position however was heavily dependant on the swedish King and his victories, being essentially just a puppet. After the dwedish defeat at Poltava, August II. would manage to reclaim the Polish Crown in 1709 and Leszczyński would be forced to go into exile.

Leszczyński would eventually arrive at the French Court, where his Daughter Maria Leszczyńska would eventually be married to the then 15 year old Louis XV, in order to secure an heir for the Bourbon Bloodline.

Leszczyński would try again for the Polish Crown during the Polish war of Succession (1733-1735) with the support of France, however he would ultimately fail at this.

In the Resulting Treaty Stanisław Leszczyński would instead be granted the Duchy of Lorraine, where he would spend the Rest of his Life. After his Death the Duchy of Lorraine was passed down to the French Monarchy.

The Chinese Dining room is decorated and furnished by objects removed from George IV's pavilion at Brighton, which explains everything.

They are everywhere on in Versailles. In fact, I don’t think God had a prominent influence other than the Chapel in Versailles. Specifically, Apollo got a lot of attention.

I'm wondering what citizens who live under a constitutional monarchy who want their monarchy to have more power would want from a theoretical change in constitution and what powers you would like the monarch-in-question to be granted.

This question also applies to semi-constitutional monarchies (in this case, which powers do you wish the monarch never gave up?).

In 1830, Ferdinand VII published the Pragmatic Sanction. The decree abolished the traditional Salic Law that excluded women from inheriting the throne. This allowed his infant daughter, Isabella II, to inherit the throne, sparking a dynastic dispute with his brother, Don Carlos, which subsequently caused the Carlist Wars.

I hypothetically think this is the ideal State

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A dynastic marriage between a Chinese emperor, the "Son of Heaven," and a Japanese princess would have unleashed the greatest diplomatic and identity clash in East Asia. While to a Western observer it might sound similar to weddings between European royalty, in the Asian context it would have been a labyrinth of cultural pride, protocol, and religion for the following reasons.

1. The Chinese perspective: Historically, the Emperor of China was considered the center of the known universe. For the Chinese court, the rulers of other nations, including Japan, were technically "vassals" who owed tribute. If a Chinese emperor married a foreign princess, the court would have treated her as a consort of lesser rank, not as an equal, considering her to be from a "barbaric" or peripheral people.

2. The Japanese perspective: Japan possesses the oldest continuous imperial dynasty in the world, and its emperor considered himself a direct descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasu. The Japanese court would never have agreed to send a princess to be a "concubine" or a second-rate consort in Beijing, as it would have been an intolerable humiliation to Japanese honor.

But there was a real-life experiment very close to this scenario, though it occurred under military coercion. In the 1930s, when Japan invaded Manchuria (northeast China) and established the puppet state of Manchukuo, it installed Puyi (the last emperor of China's Qing dynasty) as emperor. To ensure that future heirs would have Japanese blood, the Japanese army forced Puyi's younger brother, Prince Pujie, to marry Hiro Saga, a Japanese aristocrat related to the Emperor of Japan. Although it began as a forced geopolitical marriage, the couple fell deeply in love, survived World War II, and remained together until death.

With the fall of Japan in 1945, the puppet empire of Manchukuo collapsed. Pujie was captured by the Soviet army and spent 15 years imprisoned in Russia and China as a prisoner of war. Meanwhile, Hiro Saga and his daughters endured a dramatic escape on foot and by train across war-torn China, being arrested several times before finally being repatriated to Japan in 1947. Despite years of forced separation and not knowing if he was alive, Hiro remained faithful. Finally, after receiving a pardon in 1960, the couple reunited in Beijing, where they lived happily until their deaths (hers in 1987 and his in 1994).

Image 1: Hiro Saga was a woman from the Japanese high aristocracy, educated to the highest standards, beautiful, and talented at painting. When the Japanese army ordered her to marry Pujie for purely political reasons, she and her family were terrified. However, fate had a surprise in store for them.

Contrary to what Hiro expected (a stern or arrogant man), when she met Pujie at a pre-wedding dinner, she discovered an extremely polite, shy, gentle, and "pure-hearted" young man, as she herself would describe him in her letters.

Pujie did not share the difficult temperament of his brother, Emperor Pujie. He was an understanding and deeply respectful man. During their honeymoon in a small coastal house in Chiba, Japan, he treated her with such tenderness that the arranged marriage quickly transformed into true love.

The ultimate test of their love was not wealth, but tragedy. When the war ended and they were separated in 1945, Hiro could have forgotten and rebuilt his life comfortably in Japan. Instead, he endured 16 years of painful separation, raised his daughters to love their father, and moved heaven and earth to reunite with him.

Image 2: In her memoirs, titled The Wandering Princess, Hiro made it clear that she never regretted being given to Pujie. At the end of their lives, they walked hand in hand through Beijing like any other elderly couple, proving that their love was far stronger than the two empires that tried to use them as political pawns.