Assassination: The Royal Family's 1000-Year Curse (64 page)

57 He was the 5 x great-grandson of John Frederick, the uncle of George I. See footnote on page 298.

Maria Theresa married Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, who became King Ludwig III in 1913. He was deposed in 1918. When ex-Queen Maria Theresa of Bavaria died in 1919, she was succeeded by her first son, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
– a German Field Marshall in the First World War. Rupprecht became the ninth Pretender.

Having fallen out with the Nazis, Rupprecht went to live in Italy. His son, Albrecht, was an anti-Nazi. Albrecht took his mother and the rest of the family to his estate in Hungary. But Hungary joined the Nazis, and before long Albrecht, his mother (Rupprecht’s wife) and the rest of the family were arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and then to Dachau. They survived the war, although Rupprecht’s wife never recovered, and she refused to return to Germany, dying several years later in Switzerland.

Rupprecht died in 1955, and was succeeded by his son, Duke Albrecht of Bavaria, who became the tenth Pretender. Duke Albrecht died in 1996, and he was succeeded by his son, Duke Franz of Bavaria, great-grandson of the last king of Bavaria and claimant to its throne.

Duke Franz (the eleventh Pretender) lives in an apartment in the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, the former summer residence of the kings of Bavaria. But for the Catholic exclusion, Duke Franz would today be King of the United Kingdom. He is the present Jacobite Pretender, the eleventh cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Duke Franz of Bavaria

Duke Franz has never married. His heir is his brother, Max Duke in Bavaria. Max married the Swedish Countess Elisabeth Douglas, a descendant of Robert Douglas, a Scotsman who became a senior officer in the Swedish Army (his grandfather was one of Riccio’s murderers – see Elizabeth I). They have five daughters, and Max’s heir is the oldest daughter, Sophie, who married Alois the Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, the present regent and heir to the princedom of Liechtenstein; his father, multi-billionaire Prince Hans-Adam
⁵⁸
, is Europe’s wealthiest monarch.

Their first son, Prince Joseph Wenzel Maximilian Maria of Liechtenstein is therefore the ultimate heir to the throne of Liechtenstein and (but for the exclusion) to the throne of the United Kingdom. Conveniently, if he succeeds to both thrones, only one national anthem would have to be played.

58 Prince Hans-Adam’s full name is Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d’Aviano Pius von und zu Liechtenstein; so he is named after the alleged inventor of the capuccino (see page 300).

Prince Joseph Wenzel was born in 1995 at the Portland Hospital in London (also the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughters Beatrice and Eugenie), and presently attends Malvern College in Worcestershire
⁵⁹
. He will be the first pretender to be born in England since James II fled the country in 1688.

However, since the death of Cardinal Henry, no Jacobite pretenders have publicly claimed the throne.

 

THE JACOBITE SUCCESSION

 

THE JACOBITE SUCCESSION

 

(with Jacobite claimed regnal names listed alongside the Hanoverian line)
Appendix B

Principal attende es at the funeral of King Edward VII
– and what became of them
[relationship to Edward VII]

On horseback

 

King George V……………………..……..…...killed by his doctor [son]

Kaiser Wilhelm I…………………………........abdicated and exiled [nephew]
son of Edward’s sister Victoria

Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught……….…entitled to become [brother] Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha on the death of his elder brother Prince Alfred, he renounced his rights in favour of his nephew, Charles, son of Prince Leopold

King George I of Greece……………….….….assassinated [brother-in-law]
brother of Queen Alexandra

King Alfonso XIII of Spain……….…………..abdicated and exiled [nephew-in-law]
husband of the daughter of Edward’s
sister Beatrice

King Haakon VII of Norway…………..……..temporarily exiled [son-in-law]
husband and cousin of Edward’s
daughter Maud

King Frederick VIII of Denmark……….……..found dead on a park [brother-in law] bench in Hamburg
brother of Queen Alexandra

King Manuel II of Portugal …………….…..…exiled and monarchy [second cousin twice removed]
2 x great-grandson of Queen Victoria’s maternal uncle

abolished; died
suddenly in England in suspicious
circumstances

Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria……………….…abdicated and exiled [second cousin]
grandson of Queen Victoria’s maternal uncle

King Albert I of the Belgians……...……….….died while [second cousin] mountaineering on
grandson of Queen Victoria’s maternal uncle
his own

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria….……assassinated

 

Crown Prince Yusuf…….…………..….……....suicide, but murder of the Ottoman Empire was suspected

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch…….….murdered of Russia
[nephew-in-law]
son of Queen Alexandra’s sister

Prince Emanuele Duke of Aosta……..…..…...lost his rights as heir [seventh cousin once removed]
6 x great-grandson of King George I’s uncle John Frederick

to the Spanish throne when his father
abdicated

Duke of Sparta…………………….……...….…abdicated, recovered the later King Constantine I of Greece [nephew-in-law]
son of Queen Alexandra’s brother

throne, abdicated again and exiled
Crown Prince of Romania……….…….…..….succeeded by his later King Ferdinand grandson who abdicated [nephew-in-law]
husband of Marie, the daughter of
Edward’s brother Alfred

Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria…...…….exiled [eighth cousin once removed]
the Jacobite pretender
both he and Edward were descendants of
King James I; Rupprecht a 9 x great-grandson, Edward an 8 x great-grandson

Duke Albrecht of Wurttemberg…………..…..heir to the throne of [second cousin once removed]
great-grandson of Queen Victoria’s maternal aunt

Wurttemberg, but
following his cousin the king’s deposition and abdication, the kingship was abolished

Prince of Serbia…………….…………….….…assassinated later King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands…….….…his wife abdicated in [fifth cousin once removed] favour of their
consort of Queen Wilhelmina
daughter
and descendant of George I’s daughter

Grand Duke Ernest of Hesse……….….…..….deposed [nephew]
son of Edward’s sister Alice

Grand Duke Adolphus………………….…….succeeded by his son, of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
[second cousin]
he and Edward both being great-grandsons of George III

who committed suicide
Prince Heinrich of Prussia………..…………...two sons died as a result [nephew] of haemophilia (Heinrich
son of Edward’s sister Victoria
having married his

cousin Irene, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria), the third son settled in Costa Rica

Duke Charles of Saxe-Coburg……..…...…….deprived of his English and Gotha titles in WW1 and [nephew] deprived of his German
son of Edward’s brother Leopold
ducal title a year later, he

was, before and during WW2, a senior Nazi

Prince George of Saxony…………...…....……died without issue [second cousin once removed]
great-grandson of Queen Victoria’s
maternal uncle

Prince Carl of Sweden………….…..…….……expected to become the [third cousin twice removed] king of Norway on its
3 x great-grandson of George III’s sister
independence from

Sweden, he was overlooked when a Danish prince was preferred

Prince Friedrich of Waldeck…………..…..….deposed and Pyrmont
[fourth cousin once removed]
descendant of George III’s sister

Prince Mohammed Ali of Egypt……..….…....exiled Prince Arthur of Connaught……………….....succeeded by his son, [nephew] who whilst in Canada
son of Edward’s brother Arthur
fell out of a window one

night when drunk, and died of hypothermia, leaving no issue

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein…..…forced to abandon the name [brother-in-law] Schleswig-Holstein in
husband of Edward’s sister Helena
1917, he died three

months later without replacing it, and was succeeded by his son who died without issue

Prince Alexander of Battenberg….………...... forced to abandon the name [nephew] Battenberg in 1917, he
son of Edward’s sister Beatrice
became Lord Carisbrooke;

but the title became extinct on his death

Duke of Fife………………………….…………after being shipwrecked [son-in-law] and later rescued, he
husband of Edward’s daughter Louise;
died of pleurisy in Egypt
also a great-grandson of William IV
and Dorothea Jordan, and therefore second
cousin once removed of Edward, both being
descendants of George III

Duke Adolphus of Teck………………….……forced to abandon the name [second cousin]
like Edward, a great-grandson of George III; also a brother of Edward’s daughter-in-law Queen Mary

Teck in 1917, he became Marquess of Cambridge; succeeded by his son on whose death the
peerage became extinct Prince Francis of Teck………………………....he died without issue [second cousin]
like Edward, a great-grandson of George III; also a brother of Edward’s daughter–in-law Queen Mary

five months after the funeral

Prince Alexander of Teck………….…….…….became Earl of Athlone; [second cousin] died without issue
like Edward, a great-grandson of George III;
also a brother of Edward’s daughter-in-law
Queen Mary; he married Alice, daughter of
Edward’s brother Leopold, and was therefore
also Edward’s nephew-in-law

Prince Andrew of Greece……………………..father of Prince Philip; [fifth cousin twice removed] exiled
descendant of George II’s sister

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich….……....banished from Russia of Russia for life for making [fifth cousin once removed] an unsuitable and
descendant of George II’s sister
illegal marriage

(he married Countess Sophie of Merenberg the granddaughter of Pushkin, through whom she had one 3 x great-grandparent who was a former African slave given to Peter the Great and brought up by him as a son); the banishment saved him from the Bolsheviks

Prince Maximilian of Baden…………….….…heir to his cousin who [fifth cousin twice removed] abdicated, but the
descendant of George II’s sister
duchy was abolished

Crown Prince Danilo of………….……………abdicated and exiled Montenegro

Prince Christopher of Greece…………….…..declined the thrones of [fifth cousin twice removed] Portugal, Lithuania
descendant of George II’s sister
and Albania to marry

an American millionairess, his son lost all rights to the Greek throne for his descendants on making a morganatic marriage