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But King Willem I of the Netherlands was born in The Hague from a paternal line that had lived in the country for centuries before his birth. So that would make the Dutch Royal House a native dynasty.

What would you make of the Windsors?

the first Windsor was George V and his father was most certainly born and raised in the UK. So that would make them a native dynasty.

Why would only the father count? If you inherit the throne from or through your mother would not that line take precedence? It's the Royal line after al.

So for Sweden you could suggest that until the death of Gustav V the dynasty was foreign but became native when his son and heir to the Houses of Holstein-Gottorp and Wasa succeeded as Gustav VI Adolf.

What about the Norwegians. The Glucksborgs are German dynasty but Harald through his mother also traces his line to the previous dynasties does that mean the house became native?

The fact that in France and in major parts of Germany a pure male line of succession was followed does not mean this is how it went everywhere.

Are you less a child of your mother than you are of your father?

If you talk about a non-native dynasty i suggest you could say that of George I of the Hellenes. When a Greek prince of German descendant is invited to become the king in Greece you cannot speak of a native dynasty. But many of his grandchildren were born in Greece of a parent born in Greece. Why would they not be considered native?


You are entitled to disagree with me, but the question remains.

King William I may have been born in the Hague, but he comes from a long line of Orange-Nassaus who were original from what we call Germany today.

It is a dynasty that followed a long line of stadhouders and princes that at a certain time moved to what we call today the Netherlands.


The Windsors are the greatest aberration of this lot.
The Saxons and Norsemen established in Britain.
Then came the french Plantagenet William I, whose family reigned until they were replaced by the welsh Tudors, the scottish Stuarts, the german Hannovers and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
There was never a House of Windsor.
It was a creation by a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha king, who felt his name sounded too german, which was normal because it had german roots.
He changed the family name, like he might have changed his christian name.
You claim that G. V was the first Windsor, therefore issued from an english native dynasty as his father was born and raised as english.
Well, Edward VII saw no problem in changeing from the Hannover dynasty (honouring his mother, the queen regnant) to the SCGotha dynasty, honouring the little duchy from his father came from.
And G. V also started his reign as a SCGotha king.
So, no matter how english they might felt, they were issued from two german families, the Hannovers and the Sx.c.Gotha.

To add some confusion, Elisabeth II married Philip, born a prince of Greece from the Glucksburg family, who at a certain time choosed to use the anglicized version of his mother's name, a name that never exhisted before G. V's decision, and wanted to pass it to his son !


The Norwegians were an imported house as well as the Greeks, Roumanian or Bulgarian.

What's the difference between Haakon VII and George I of Greece ?


Anybody is the result of ones parents in equal part, either a royal or a commoner.
But the point is that, for centuries, the male line prevailed and transmitted its name.
When a woman became regnant, their sons usually adopted the father's name, unless they opted - for the fiction - take the Romanov example in ancient days.


When Henry VII died, he was followed by his only son Edward VI who took precedence over his elder sisters Mary and Elisabeth.

For the sake of the argument, what dynasty do you think would have reigned in England if Mary and Philip would have had a son ? My guess, the Habsburg dynasty. Philip would have made a point.

Should William III and Mary have had a son, the english dynasty would have certainly change to Orange.
If Anne and George of Dk's son, the duke of Gloucester, had survived, he would have started a new dynasty.
Same for the stillborn son of Leopold of Sx.C.G. and Pss Charlotte.


In Luxembourg, GDk Jean adopted his father's name de Bourbon-Parma, together with his siblings, until he had a quarrel with the head of the BP and reverted to Nassau.

I suppose yould consider the Braganza dynasty native to Portugal.
Of course it produced several kings born and raised in Portugal, speaking portuguese and abiding to portuguese traditions.
Nevertheless, D. João IV, the first Braganza king, came from a line of dukes, the first one being the son of D. João I, the first king of the Aviz dynasty.
D.João I was the son of D.Pedro I, from the previous Burgundian/Afonsin dynasty, issued from Henri duke of Burgundy, himself issued in the male line from a younger son of Robert II, king of the Franks.

Nobody disputes that the portuguese RF is native from France.