If since the end of the 18th century, most monarchies have gradually died out, there are still twelve left in Europe today. Solid and radiant, from the United Kingdom to Denmark, via Luxembourg. In France, royalist fantasies seem very distant but persist among some: according to a BVA survey dating from 2016, 17% of French people would be in favor of the position of head of state being occupied by a king.
General de Gaulle himself once dreamed of restoring the monarchy. And isn't it Emmanuel Macron who in an interview, two years before his first election, said: “In French politics, this absentee is the figure of the king, whom I fundamentally think the French people did not want death. »
The scenario of seeing a man ascend the throne of France, however, only seems to be fiction. But if ever, oh ever, that happened, there would be two candidates – plus a third, pretender to the Imperial throne – to volunteer for the position.
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Louis of Bourbon
The first is Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, otherwise called by his supporters Louis XX. At 50, this banker with a jet-setting past is the eldest of the Capetians. In other words, he is the legitimist pretender to the throne of France.
Among his ancestors, he notably counts Henri IV and Louis XIV, but also General Franco, whose heritage he proudly claims, mocking the controversies. Moreover, the Duke of Anjou does not live in France, but in Spain. He was born in Madrid and raised his four children there, the fruit of his marriage to María Margarita Vargas Santaella, daughter of the famous Venezuelan banker Víctor Vargas.
-Louis de Bourbon reacts to the politics of our country, via his social networks, and sometimes takes a position, for example against marriage for all or in favor of the yellow vests.
Jean d'Orléans
At 59 years old, Jean d'Orléans, Count of Paris, is the Orleanist pretender to the throne of France. He is the descendant of Philippe d'Orléans, the younger brother of Louis XIV, but also of Louis-Philippe, the last king of the French. This is where it derives its legitimacy. It is also supported by the main royalist movements in France.
Since 2009, he has been married to Philomena de Tornos y Steinhart, from the Austrian and Spanish aristocracy, with whom he has six children. Long a banker, the Count of Paris now devotes himself to his family and above all to the preservation of the heritage of his ancestors.
Jean-Christophe Napoleon
He could not be king since he is the pretender to the imperial throne. At 38 years old, this young man with the ideal physique of a son-in-law bears the title of Prince Napoleon and is head of the Bonaparte household. In the interviews he gives, he claims to “claim nothing” but to be proud of his roots.
A graduate of HEC and Harvard, he has worked in New York, London and Paris. It was also in the capital, at Les Invalides, that Prince Napoleon married Countess Olympia von Arco-Zinneberg, great-granddaughter of the last Emperor of Austria, in October 2019. Since then, they have been the happy parents of a little prince.
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