The European Royals Message Board: Re: Foreigners for monarchs

Practically all have had foreigners as monarchs, for reasons that thrones would initially be acquired via contest or treaty, and the sovereigns would marry foreigners. European royalty has basically been one large family of Germans, by blood -- and that includes the Danes and the Dutch.

The exceptions are the homegrown Balkan dynasties of Serbia and Montenegro: but even those royals (Karageorgevich and Petrovich-Njegos) eventually intermarried with the established houses of Europe.

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It appears that most European monarchies both of recent past and the present have "foreigners" for their monarchs. England, Belgium, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Romania, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece, and Russia were reigned over by a monarch who came there from elsewhere. Are there others? Were the Danes, the Dutch, the French and the Italians, and many of the Germanic ones the only countries in Europe whose monarchies were home grown?