More on French Royalism

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I have posted twice in recent days about commemorations in France of King Louis XVI, and of course once ventures onto the Internet the algorithm starts finding related videos.

Here then are a few more, starting with a Requiem Mass celebrated in Grenoble, which can be seen at Messe de requiem pour Louis XVI - Mardi 21 Janvier 2025 - Collégiale Saint André de Grenoble

The Count of Paris - King Jean IV - is shown attending a Mass at Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, which was the parish church for a couple of centuries for the Louvre, and he is briefly interviewed by the presenter, at Je vais à l’Hommage au roi Louis XVI et j'interview le comte de Paris ! 

There is an interview with the then Prince Jean from 2018, before the death of his father, which  can be seen at Interview Prince Jean d'Orléans, Comte de Paris - Complément d'Enquête

There is a recent two part interview with the Count which can be seen at Prince Jean de France : La question de la République est posée - Les Conversations n°51 - TVL and at Prince Jean : un roi pour la République ? (2ème partie) - Les Conversations de P.-M. Coûteaux n°52

Finally there is his equivalent of a reigning monarch Christmas or New Year broadcast on which can be seen at Voeux de Noël 2024 | PRINCE JEAN D'ORLEANS, COMTE DE PARIS

Vive Le Roi !

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The French Succession

Two friends drew my attention to report in The Daily Telegraph about dissension between the Orleanist claimant to the French throne, the de jure King Henri VII, and his second son, Jean, about whether the latter should be, as his father intends, in effect, Regent for his disabled elder brother or whether as he thinks, should suceed to the headship of the House of France upon the present Head's decease. The article can be read at  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/09/pretender-to-frances-non-existent-throne-embroiled-in-succession/

The situation looks rather similar to the Bavarian situation in 1913 when the new Regent, Prince Ludwig, suceeded his father Prince Luitpold as Regent for King Otto, and then assumed the throne as King Ludwig III, although King Otto lived until 1916. Only then did King Ludwig assume sole and undisputed sovereignty over the realm.

 

Arms of the King of France and Navarre 

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Meanwhile in another Bourbon kingdom

In addition to today's events in Spain in another Bourbon monarchy it is also accession day. Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the accession to the position of claimant of the de jure King Henri VII of France following the death on this day in 1999 of his father the de jure King Henri VI. Better known to the world as the Count of Paris, there is an online account of the present head of the Bourbon Orleanist house here, and one of his father here.

Prince Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orleans, the Count of Paris and his second wife Princess Mickaela arrive at Senlis Cathedral to attend the wedding of his son Jean de France with Philomena de Tornos on May 2, 2009 in Senlis, France. 

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The French Royal House has struggled, with varying degrees of intensity, over the legitimist issue ever since Louis Philippe took the throne, rather than acting as Regent in 1830. Given the reconciliation - however much crossing of fingers there may have - been between King Henri V and Philippe of Orleans before the former's death in 1883, the succession should be clear. The issue has not been helped by some of the tensions within the Orleanist family nor by the claims in the nineteenth century of the Carlist Spanish line or, more recently, of the Spanish Angevin Bourbon to be King Louis XX. These various claims - some of which appear tenuous or highly partisan - have not helped the French monarchist cause, and, as I have pointed out on other occasions, that is one which shows surprising resilience.

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Vive Le Roi!