Re: Twins as heirs to throne
- From: "Ron Head" <ronhead@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:05:34 -0500
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On Mar 15, 11:07 pm, "Ron Head" <ronh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Graham said in an earlier post about Queen Victoria's place in the line of
succession to the British throne:
"It's true that her uncle (the Duke of Clarence) fathered legitimate
children by
his wife (born Princess Adelheid of Saxe-Meiningen), before and after
the death of his brother, the Duke of Kent. But it's also interesting
to note that both were daughters (the first was stillborn a couple of
months before Victoria's birth; and the second -- "Little Queen Bess",
who lived for only three months -- was born in the reign of King
George IV. I believe that the duchess of Clarence also miscarried a
pair of twin boys sometime later; afterward, there were no further
pregnancies)."
Had these twin boys been carried to term and born healthy, I must assume
that the elder would have been ahead of the younger in the line of
succession, like any other elder and younger brothers.
Has their ever been a case (anywhere) of a twin being born or later
becoming
heir apparent to a throne? If so, were there any musings at the time about
the possibility of "Co-heirship" for such twins? If such a situation were
to arise in the future, do you suppose such a proposal might be seriously
put forth?
Such a situation was amusingly dramatized in "The Man in the Iron
Mask" but fantasy is certainly where it belongs. Heirs rank in
accordance as they emerge from the body - why should it be any
different if the interval is minutes rather than years? So I don't
really know why such an notion should even arise. Unless, perhaps, the
co-heirs were SIAMESE twins and it was impossible to ascertain which
had emerged first. In such a situation, the case for a joint-monarchy
would be unassailable.
Bill King
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Consider, if you will, the responsibility held by the royal obstetrician
this scenario:
Prince William's wife is about to be delivered of her first pregnancy, male
twins, and it has been detemined that for medical reasons, the twins must be
born by Caesarean section.
I am not particularly versed in the mechanics of performing such an
operation, but I am somewhat stunned that the whim of a mere medical
practitioner (which infant to reach in and pull out first!) would detemine
which of the twins would ultimately become the King!
.
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