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: I totally missed that one.
: It is the most recent case of three brothers
: becoming monarch of a European kingdom.
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: Same for Greece as the three sons of King
: Constantine I reigned in the country: King
: Alexander, King George II and King Paul.
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: It would have happened in Saxony where KIng
: Anton succeeded his brotherFrierich August
: in 1831. Fridrich #August I. had a surviving
: daughter, Anton had no surviving children.
: So after Anton's death the third brother
: Maximilian would have succeeded by he had
: already renounced his rights in favour of
: his sonFriedrich August.
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: It would also have resulted in the unusual
: scenario of three brothers succeeding to the
: same throne in turn.
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: I know of only 4 examples where that
: happened. Three in France and one in Russia:
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: 1: Louis X - Philip V - Charles IV
: 2: Francois II - Charles IX - Henri III
: 3: Louis XVI - Louis XVIII - Charles X
: 4: Fjodor III - Ivan V - Peter I
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: Another European example would be from
: Spain:
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: Luis I - Ferdinand VI - Carlos III (albeit
: there was a gap between the first two when
: their father Felipe V returned to the
: throne).
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: Outside Europe there is, of course, the
: example of Saudi Arabia where no less then 6
: sons of Ibn Saud have succeeded each other
: on the throne:
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: Saud - Feisal - Khalid - Fahd - Abdullah -
: Salman
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