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Continuing with the thread on in-house unions: do, in fact, the Belgian royals in male-line descent from King Leopold I have multiple titles? Is Elisabeth a princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in addition to being the crown princess of Belgium and the Duchess of Brabant? If so, then perhaps it would count as one of those situations of unused titles (which I previously brought up): one might be A prince(ss) of a country X, but never called that.
Yes, they are members of the Saxon princely house. Recently, the King brought back the inescutcheon of Saxony to the Belgian royal arms as well as the name Saxe-Coburg & Gotha; this, I feel, is in preparation to limit the Belgian princely title but still have a royal name for more distant members of the family. Previous Message
Her Majesty the Queen is still a member of the Saxon princely house, despite what her grandfather may have wanted. He was not ever head of the ducal line of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha nor did he have Saxon dynastic jurisdiction over members of his family. All his proclamation technically amounted to is disallowing use of those titles in his realms (no matter how it was worded).
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Right; the Duke of Edinburgh basically renounced the use of his dynastic titles, which still descend (disused) to his legitimate male line descendants... Prince of Greece and of Denmark; Duke of Schleswig, of Holstein, of Stormarn, of Dithmarschen, of Lauenburg, and of Oldenburg... maybe also Prince of Glücksburg if that Danish title wasn’t extinguished in that line when Christian IX became king.
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Norway for a long time was either under the yoke of Sweden or Denmark so it was important that they did not use their Danish titles.
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There are no Princes of the Netherlands who are not also Princes of Orange-Nassau, so I would not consider this a “dual house” situation...
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That’s what the late grand duke wanted to do but he could not extinguish his descendants’ membership and any residual rights they may have had in the Houses of Bourbon/France, Spain, Etruria, and Parma (just to list them all!).
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Not sure if they are specifically styled as such but they used the arms of Saxony and are members of the Saxon princely house.
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These female line titles were always specially created or decreed and not automatic. I am not so sure that the Bavarian titles were actually alienable.
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They certainly have the titles because King Michael explicitly renounced their use.
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The hyphen is a simplification, they are actually Princes of Orléans *and* Braganza.
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