The History of European Royalty V Quiz

Answer: No

Although Queen Elizabeth I Tudor of England was indeed there at the knighting ceremony, she allowed the French ambassador to actually knight Francis Drake in order to pit the French against the Spanish by allowing a Frenchman to knight the conqueror of the Spanish Armada.

Answer: Princess Joanna de Everux of Navarre

Eleanor of Aquitaine was the Queen of France from Jul 1137 to Jan 1152 and the Queen of England from May 1152 to Jul 1189. Eleanor of Spain was the Queen of Portugal from Nov 1518 to Dec 1521 and the Queen of France from Jul 1530 to Mar 1547. Margaret of France was the Queen of Navarre from Aug 1572 and Queen of France from Aug 1589, both reigns ending when her divorce came through in 1599. Joanna of Navarre was only the Queen of England, the second wife of Henry IV.

Answer: They were all assassinated

King Boris III Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Bulgaria died on 28 August 1943 in Royal Palace, Sofia, Bulgaria. King Alexander I Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia died on 9 October 1934 in Marseilles, France. King Umberto I de Savoie of Italy died on 29 July 1900 in Milan, Italy. King Carlos I Saxe-Coburg-Gotha died on 1 February 1908 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Answer: King Miguel I de Braganca of Portugal

After the abdication of King Manuel II Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Portugal in 1910 and his childless death in 1932, the lineage of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha strand was dead. Therefore the claim reverted back to the Braganca line, a descendant of King Miguel I de Braganca of Portugal and the title of the claimant is the Duke of Braganca.

The Duke since 1976 is Duke Duarte Pio Nuno de Braganca of Braganca. Born on 15 May 1945 in Bern, Germany, he is the son of Duke Duarte Nuno de Braganca of Braganca and Princess Maria Francisca de Orleans-Braganca of Brazil. On 13 May 1995 in Lisbon, Portugal he married Isabella Ines de Castro de Heredia and together they have three children; Prince Alfonso; Princess Maria Francisca; and Prince Denis.

Answer: Marius

Before her marriage to Crown Prince Haakon Magnus Glucksburg of Norway on 25 August 2001 in Oslo Cathedral, Oslo, Norway, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby was already a single mother to Marius Hoiby, born in 1997. There was a bit of controversy, as it was a single mother wanting to marry the Crown Prince.

However, it was an increasing trend at the time, where single parenting was more acceptable and in the end there was no opposition towards the marriage. The Crown Prince has adopted Marius, but of course he has no claim to the throne.

Answer: He was born a king

King Alfonso XIII de Bourbon of Spain was born on 17 May 1886 to Archduchess Maria Christina Habsburg-Lotharingen of Teschen and King Alfonso XII de Bourbon of Spain, who had died on 25 November 1885. His elder sister, Maria de les Mercedes, was the titular Queen for a few months during her mother's pregnancy and would have properly inherited the throne, if the new baby was female and not male. Alfonso XIII's marriage to Princess Victoria Eugenie von Hesse-Darmstadt of Battenberg was nearly morganic.

The Princess Victoria was a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria and had been born as Her Serene Highness, a step down from Her Royal Highness. Before the marriage, Queen Victoria elevated her grand-daughter up to the appropriate rank in order for her marriage to be looked upon as equal. During their marriage, Alfonso blamed Victoria for introducing Haemophilia into the royal family and this created some distance between the two, but they never divorced.

Answer: the Count of Chambord

Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonne, Count of Chambord, born on September 29, 1820, was the grandson of King Charles X of France, the posthumous son of the Duke of Berry. In 1830, Charles abdicated in favour of his grandson, whose supporters proclaimed him Henry V.

However parliament instead decreed that the throne should go to a distant relative, the Duke of Orléans, who became Louis-Philippe, King of the French. The Count of Chambord, as he was generally known, remained the Legitimist claimant to the throne from the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe to the Empire of Napoleon III.

In the early 1870s, Chambord was offered the throne by the French National Assembly. However he set one demand, that France abandon its tricolour and return to the Bourbon fleur-de-lis, which the National Assembly would not grant.

A temporary Third Republic was established, waiting for the childless Chambord to die By Chambord's death in August 24 1883, however, public opinion had swung behind the Republic.

Answer: the Duke of Varmland

HRH Prince Carl Phillip Bernadotte of Sweden, the Duke of Varmland, was born on 13 May 1979 in the Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden. As the eldest son, he was, in fact, born the Crown Prince. However, a change in the Laws of Succession was enacted shortly after his birth and the law was backdated, stripping him as the Crown Prince and his sister took over as the Crown Princess.

Answer: Adolf Hitler

Everyone knows of Adolf Hitler's eternal dislike of Jews and his enforcement of identification by the 'Yellow Star', however, there are few who know that Edward I is guilty of exactly the same thing. Not only did he make the Jews wearing their yellow stars, he overtaxed them to fund his war in Wales, arrested the Heads of the Jewish families and had them executed, and also exiled the entire Jewish community when he was through.

Answer: A bite from his pet monkey

King Alexander I Schleswig-Holstein of Greece was born on 1 August 1893 in Tatoi, Athens, Greece and he was the second son of King Constantine I Schleswig-Holstein of Greece and Princess Sophie Dorothea Hohenzollern of Germany. His father was forced to abdicate in favour of his second son, instead of the first as he was deemed unfit to rule.

He married Aspasia Manos on 4 November 1919 in Athens, Greece and, unfortunately, died on 25 October 1920 of a bite from his pet monkey. Constantine resumed the throne until his own death on 11 January 1923 in Palermo, Sicily, and the crown passed to his eldest son, King George II Schleswig-Holstein of Greece.