The birth doesn’t even have any relevance to be part of a royal family. I might remember this wrong, but last time I was in Stockholm I went to the armoury museum or whatever its called. There was a small tidbit almost hidden in some big paragraph about a Swedish royal who had no kids and therefore no heir. He went ahead and just adopted a random French general (I think) who then by extension became a real royal person.
The Swedish royal family ain’t Swedish. The British royal family ain’t British. Everyone else is British, because Queen Victoria had two hundred kids, and half of them died of a papercut.
The birth doesn’t even have any relevance to be part of a royal family. I might remember this wrong, but last time I was in Stockholm I went to the armoury museum or whatever its called. There was a small tidbit almost hidden in some big paragraph about a Swedish royal who had no kids and therefore no heir. He went ahead and just adopted a random French general (I think) who then by extension became a real royal person.
I actually just looked it up now, it was a Swedish king who had no children, adopted this French guy, who then became Swedish king himself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John
So from then on the Swedish royal family wasn’t technically Swedish anymore? I didn’t check who he married and had kids with though.
The Swedish royal family ain’t Swedish. The British royal family ain’t British. Everyone else is British, because Queen Victoria had two hundred kids, and half of them died of a papercut.