This guy could be King Louis XX of France

Anti gay marriage, anti abortion, but pro France having a constitutional monarchy...go figure!

Also a descendant of Generalissimo Francisco Franco (who is still dead) and Queen Victoria of Lake Victoria and Victoria Falls fame.

Something in his countenance suggests he really enjoys fucking.

I prefer Jean Christophe Napoleon the III or whatever his name is.

Less of a fascist dipshit, for one.

The Spanish and French royal families are all mixed up together. Sometime the monarch was the same in both countries.

His upper lip curling makes him look like prick.

He's aged reasonably well.

Yum.

Here's the Napoleanic/Bonaparte pretender. A bit of a pudding face. I'll stick with the Duke of Andouche.

I don’t understand? Can someone help explain this? Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were the last? How did the line continue?

The more legitimate claim (despite not being a Legitimist claimant like the Bourbon Louis Alphonse) to the French throne is that of Jean, Count of Paris, who is the Orleanist claimant (House of Orleans) given that Louis Alphonse's ancestor, Philip V of Spain, renounced his claim to the French throne. In addition, Louis Alphonse's grandfather, Jaime, Duke of Segovia, renounced his claim to the Spanish throne and the claim of his descendants because of his deafness. If not for that, Louis Alphonse may have been King of Spain today not his second cousin Felipe VI.

Jean, Count of Paris (see link), the Orleanist claimant, is 57 yet looks much older than Louis Alphonse at 48..

Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, 36 and mentioned by R4 and R9, is the Napoleonic pretender to the Imperial crown. One can see the resemblance to Napoleon. I think he's cute as seen at R9.

Because monarchies have lines of successsion, Rose. these lists can go into the thousands. There's always an heir.

He's incredibly hot here

Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon.

^^Napoleon is cuter here r13.

r13 Curling lip AND cross-eyed

R10 the monarchy was removed and restored several times in France and so there are still pretenders to the throne if it were never reinstated. Although called Emperor, Napoleon was in fact a monarch and still has a line of dynastic succession, as do other former French royal families (i.e., Bourbon, Orleans). Wouldn't it be a fun clusterfuck if these twats ever had to duke it out (now pun intended) to rule France? It would make a great musical!

^^ever... not never

Give me my CHATEAUX back!

And I mean ALL of them, dammit!

Of course this Louis Alphonse was invited ro the wedding of another toppled czarist heir apparent. It's a smaller group but they are tight knit! Look at this guest list of luminaries:

"They married on 24 September 2021 in a civil ceremony in Moscow. The religious wedding took place on 1 October in Saint Petersburg, at Saint Isaac's Cathedral.[22][23] Around 1500 guests attended the ceremony, including King Simeon II of Bulgaria and his wife Queen Margarita; King Fuad II of Egypt; Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa of Qatar; Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza and his wife Isabel, Duchess of Braganza; Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Piedmont; Crown Prince Leka of Albania and his wife Crown Princess Elia; Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and his husband Gauthier Destenay; Prince Louis Alphonse de Bourbon and his wife Princess Marie Marguerite de Bourbon; Prince Aimone, 6th Duke of Aosta and his wife, born Princess Olga of Greece; Russian monarchist and billionaire Konstantin Malofeev; Sarah Fabergé; European historian and socialite, Stéphane Bern as well as many members of Russian, Spanish and European nobility.[24][25][26][27][28]"

[quote] Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were the last? How did the line continue?

The Bourbon monarchy was restored as a constitutional monarchy (as opposed to Louis XVI's absolute monarchy) after Napoleon, the Emperor of the French, abdicated (twice, first after which he went to Elba and again after his defeat at Waterloo, permanently exiled to St. Helena).. The restored Bourbon monarchy lasted from 1815-1839 under Louis XVIII and Charles X. A branch of the Bourbons, the Bourbon-Orleans line, lasted from 1830-1848 under Louis Philippe I. It is Louis Philippe's descendants who form the Orleanist branch, including Jean, Count of Paris. Louis Alphonse, subject of this thread, is of the direct Bourbon House from the brothers of Louise XVI, the aforementioned Louis XVIII and Charles X.

The Napoleonic House of Bonaparte was itself restored under the Second French Empire from 1852-1870 under Napoleon III. He was the last French monarch. Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, comes from this house.

Suggest he move to Montecito tout de suite.

A friend just became monarch pretender of an ancient Kingdom with tons of money. That's all I will say.

R10. Louis XVI's brothers became Kings after Napoleonic period. They are the Louis XVIII and Charles X mentioned by R20.

Louis XVIII didn't have children. Charles X abdicated in 1830 during the July Revolution. His eldest son, the Duke of Angoulême (who married Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's daughter), immediately abdicated too. Angoulême didn't have children. The heir became the Duke of Bordeaux who was 10 years old at that time. He was the son of Charles' other male son (who died in 1820 when he was 42 year old). National Assembly passed the throne to the Orleanist branch. Charles,the Duke of Angoulême, Marie Antoinette's daughter, the young Duke of Bordeaux, his mother, etc were sent in exile again.

Napoleon's son, who was technically Napoleon II, died at age 21 of tuberculosis. Sadly, the world lost a twink emperor.

Actually, r20, Louis Alphonse is not descended from either brothers of Louis XVI. He descends from a grandson of Louis XIV, Philippe d'Anjou. This grandson founded the branch Bourbon d'Espagne which is still on the Spanish throne and has also sprouted other Bourbon lines in Italy.

All this talk of Bourbons! All of a sudden I want a shot of Four Roses, mmmmm.

Let's not forget that then Spanish monarchy was reinstated after Franco so it.could happen that then French decide to become a constitutional monarchy.

Article about royal lines no longer in power. Includes discussion of the current French pretenders.

Humph. They're all phonies. The throne of France belongs to me and my heirs.

R28 - Ferdinand Zvonimir Habsburg has said multiple times in interviews that he has absolutely no interest whatsoever in any if the royal stuff. He acknowledges that it has given him a definite advantage in pursuing his career interests, and he appreciates that, but that is where it ends.

Somebody in the media said if he marries the current Spanish Infanta (she's like 17 or 18 right now), he would become King of Spain because of all those obtuse precedence rules.

[quote] Ferdinand Zvonimir Habsburg

He's rather cute.

His father was beheaded! Très approprié!

…in a ski accident by a cable. Still…

It's interesting that legitimate royals avoid deposed royals like the plague normally, except for the Brits having connection to the Greek non-monarchy, which wasn't even ethnically Greek, through Prince Philip.

Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex's fate: relegated to hobnobbing with pretenders.

You know he'd actually pay to attend Charles' coronation.

The worst ones are the former Greek royal family: no connection to the country's history before their time as monarchs; none of them (at least not the major members, I don't know about everyone) ever married an actual Greek; they persist in using the titles despite a democratic referendum which abolished the monarchy.

If you love the Greek nation and its people, then respect their decision! I accept that the last King does seem to have loved the country but his daughter-in-law (Marie-Chantal Miller) and granddaughter (Olympia), who styles herself Olympia of Greece? Trash. Call yourself Glücksburg and call it a day - that's your real name.

TWO accidental deaths? Hmmm.

Louis Alphonse has an amazing ass - I can't find it now (darn it!), but I had a pic of him at some kind of Marineland place in a wetsuit feeding the dolphins. His ass was sticking out like Anthony Recker's!

Very good looking.

Yes nice looking. Could do something anout the unibrow maybe he does now.

When young.

R25 Indeed, the Duke of Bordeaux (grandson of Charles X) died in 1883 childless. So the line of succession went back to the Spanish line.

R23 To put things in circle: the unpopular Prime Minister under Charles X at the time of the 1830 Revolution was Jules de Polignac, second son of Madame de Polignac, the old-favorite of Marie Antoinette. Polignac was arrested in August 1830 while trying to flee to England, sentenced to imprisonment for life and eventually released in 1836. It was a light improvement...he fathered 2 children while in prison. Oh well, the wife had 2 children during that time.

He seems obsequious.

He looks like the mechanic at my local gas station. AKA, nothing special.

Shirtless side view.

Shirtless kissing wife.

So strange how media still pays attention to the members of former royal families.

Let me eat ass.

R5

Thrones of France and Spain were never combined. Navarre yes, but not all of Spain.

Due to French Revolution murdering so many Bourbons in France it falls to the Spanish branch of family to have most remaining bloodlines to Louis XIV. the Sun King.

R14 and R15, having met him several times in real life, he is much better looking than he photographs. Very tall and well-mannered - but something of a dork, however.

Legitimists

R32 - Wrong Habsburg. FZH's dad is Karl Habsburg, and is quite alive.

R50 here,

Posted incorrect link, sorry.

I love what an indecisive bitch France was in the 19th century. Oh, what shall I be this year? Kingdom, empire? Republic? Am I Third Republic or Fourth? Oh who knows? Let the ministers figure it out.

What's that Paris? A Commune? What the hell is that?

Looks a bit like a younger Mel Gibson. And just as crazy/vile.

There still to this day in certain quarters of French society strong dislike for descendants of those who voted in favor of murdering Louis XVI (les regicides). The Orleans branch of FRF are descended from Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans who voted in favor of his cousin Louis XVI being executed.

I found the pic of him in the wetsuit and I had a completely wrong memory - it's hardly an Anthony Recker ass, actually pretty normal-sized. But he's still dreamy overall.

I love that portrait of Louis XIV with his giant outer labia hairdo.

His wife looks like an old boot.

R47

American media perhaps not so much, but in Europe yes there is still a strong interest in various royals even if their families were long since deposed.

Point de Vue magazine is but a case in point.

[quote] Point de Vue magazine is but a case in point.

and Hello! Magazine!

I do think somebody has to give a Hapsburg a throne. I mean they had so many once. Come on Slovenia, give a bitch a throne. What the hell else do you have going on these days?

Well, other than this nonsense.

[quote]Something in his countenance suggests he really enjoys fucking.

The Bourbons were hot-blooded.

Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou was totally hot as a young man.

"Anti gay marriage, anti abortion, but pro France having a constitutional monarchy...go figure!"

Within France, Spain, Italy and Germany you still have strong conservative Catholic societies. While their numbers aren't nearly what they were say prior to WWII and certain WWI, they still never the less exist.

You saw this in France when to shock of many around would huge numbers turned out into streets to protest against SSM becoming law. Many simply had no idea that many French had problems with SSM or LGBT for that matter. It was an eye opening moment...

At burial of Louis XVII's heart.

For those who require something visual.