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Why not make Pelé Emperor? He'd be great I reckon

But why does Prince Luís get to be the Emperor? Surely it should be decieded on amount of service performed for the Brazilian people? Archbishop Adalberon said before crowning Hugh Capet King of the Franks, "The throne is not acquired by hereditary right; no one should be raised to it unless...

Wow that is very strange to me, Princess Maria di Grazia looks EXACTLY like mon père - thank you very much for all of this - jolly bewildering

Haha no way, she looks like an older version of my sister

Found the ancestry chart - a looooot of inbreeding... They all seem to be Capetians, and most of my ancestors descend directly and exclusively in the male line from either Charles III of Spain or Emperor Francis I

Just reading about him now on Wikipedia and my ancestor Isabel, Princess Imperial was a proponent of the abolition of slavery in Brazil?!

All this news is very fascinating I must say

And it's Louis Jean, je pense que son nom complet est Louis Jean Gaston Marie de Nicolaÿ, marquis de Nicolaÿ, comte de Nicolaÿ, marquis de Goussainville, etc. My uncles are Robert et Victor, Robert est le marquis d'Ivor au présent and Victor est le comte de Cherbourg et marquis d'Osny, etc...

Mon dieu, I would never have thought! Emperor, now that's quite the title If she was heiress presumptive, does that put me in line to the Imperial throne? If it is a question of morganatic marriage, my great-grandfather René was a Prince of the Papal States (14th Prince Nicolay) as well as a...

My grandfather has just shown me a family tree and has been talking about his mother recently, I always knew she was Brazilian-Italian or something, but now I hear she was Princess Pia Maria of Orléans-Braganza! You can imagine my shock of learning that great grandmère 'Pima' was actually a...