The recent move by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to remove the princely titles from four grandchildren reminds me: has there been another case in royal history of a massive overhaul? I know that such a thing happened in the UK in 1917, but the circumstances were entirely different.
After all, World War I was in progress, and hence hostile anti-German sentiment prevailed. As such, King George V was obliged to change the house name of the reigning dynasty from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor. He also stripped all his Coburg and Hanoverian cousins of their British royal titles, and made his Teck and Battenberg cousins trade away their German morganaut princely titles for British peerages or noble titles. Hence, the demotion of HSH Princess Louise of Battenberg to Lady Louise Mountbatten.
What are other comparable situations, in Great Britain or elsewhere?
All other issues aside, it's important to bear in mind that the Danish monarch obviously has a far greater leeway to remove titles within her/his wider family than the British monarch. Although that doesn't prevent the British monarch from *initiating* that request for the removal of a title within the family previously requested and granted by parliament. The Danish monarch represents the oldest surviving reigning dynasty on the European continent, and that latitude which she/he still retains to grant/remove titles is the right one, IMHO. Unlike weakling monarchies in places like Netherlands and Belgium, the latter where parliament is so presumptuous as to imagine it can "grant" titles without any input or request from the monarch at all.
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