UK: King George VI
Norway: none since the house of Glücksburg came to the throne (King Haakon VII doesn't count, despite being born a second son, for reasons that the particular point of focus here is the Norwegian throne to which he got elected -- not Danish, which he never occupied)
Denmark: none since the house of Glücksburg came to the throne (it would have been Prince Knud, but for the 1953 constitutional amendment that changed the succession law)
Sweden: none since the house of Bernadotte came to the throne (King Oscar II was born as the third son of King Oscar I, with both older brothers surviving to adulthood)
The Netherlands: none since the house of Orange came to the throne
Belgium: King Albert II
Spain: King Carlos IV (his own second son and namesake attempted to claim the throne, thereby igniting the Carlist wars in the country, but never succeeded)
Luxembourg: none since the house of Nassau-Weilburg came to the throne
Liechtenstein: Prince Franz I
Monaco: can anybody fill me in on this?
What about the non-reigning houses? I believe that in Portugal, it was King Luis I; in Russia, it was Czar Alexander III.
I'm less clear about German and Italian houses -- excepting the Wittelsbachs of Bavaria, where that distinction would be King Otto.
Austria is tricky, because the Habsburgs were originally Holy Roman emperors (elected), and the dynasty branched out -- just like the Bourbons.
Is all this correct? Can anybody fill me in on the dynasties of Germany and Italy?
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