King Constantine II of the Hellenes does not count, for reasons that the Greek monarchy got abolished in 1973. Otherwise, his son and heir would be the reigning monarch today, as King Paul II.
So Europe would have had a brief period of less than two years (2022-2024) with three male-line descendants of Christian IX reigning. But the number will soon be reduced to just two ... That being said, the British royal succession will continue in his male-line descent for at least three generations, despite the change of law: even if the future King George VII were to be succeeded by a firstborn daughter, that hypothetical queen regnant (like Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway) would still be of patrilineal descent from the Danish king known as the "Father-in-law of Europe."
Just as QEII of Great Britain was (like the kings of Belgium) a patrilineal descendant of Duke Franz of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld: I forgot to mention another reigning monarch during 1901-1910 who descended from him patrilineally -- Duke Carl of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the maternal grandfather of the present king of Sweden.
He had succeeded his uncle Alfred (the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Victoria and Albert), who in 1900 died without any surviving male issue. So Europe actually had FIVE sovereign agnates during that period (Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, Coburg, and the UK).
Did I misunderstand your question? Queen Elizabeth II is not a male line descendant of King Christian IX?
But King Charles III is through his father - so that mean these four male line relatives of King Christian IX were reigning at the same time:
- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- King Harald of Norway
- King Charles III of the UK
- King Constantine of the Hellenes. If you still see him as a reigning King after 1973.
In the next generation we will see King Haakon of Norway and King William of the UK (and 'King' Pavlos of the Hellenes).
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