Posted by Bernardino
on 29/8/2012, 17:44:48, in reply to "Book of etiquette needed for dethroned royalty?"
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It's true 
by now someone could have written that book of etiquete for unemployed sovereigns 
I imagine that in the first decades after being dethroned, most Sovereigns wandered a bit on their doings…maybe sometimes, when there was still a chance of recovering the throne and dynastical dilemmas arose, former Monarchs avoided making clear statements that could be unpopular to the legal institutions that were acting in their countries in replacement of the former regime…maybe they found it better then to indicate what their will was but without taking a clear and rigid position – which we, who still care nowadays, would have appreciated very much – providing a space of manoeuvre in case of negotiations were needed for getting back the Family on the throne …
But even when there are clear and legal indications of whom is the Head of the Family there are always other royals or cousins of royals that understand otherwise and give rise to disputes that only damage mostly the Royals themselves...
Royals should obey as much as possible the Laws that regulated their dynasties but I don’t accept they must be prisoners of the past...in my opinion, the Head of the Family can say otherwise...Family Laws emerged most times inside the Families and then became inscribed in the Law of the Countries...(Family) Laws are created in a given moment in time, and so they can be corrected or altered in another moment in time...in the absence of a legal power representing the people, and as Monarchies have in their base the concept of Family, it must be the “Pater Familias” to decide when situations emerge and that enter in conflict with the (former) Laws / Tradition ...
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