[HPFGU-OTChatter] Combining Brit Royalty and Wizards...?

[Shaun Hately]

On 31 Oct 2003 at 19:32, Shaun Hately wrote:

> Under normal circumstances, if Hermione married Prince William, she would 
> become Queen. There is no circumstance under which she could take over as 
> Queen in her own right 

I was thinking about this, this morning and it may not *quite* be true, though it 
would be an incredibly unlikely situation.

I'm thinking of the precedent of William and Mary - (King William III, Queen Mary 
II)

Mary was the Heir Presumptive to the throne (she was the eldest living child of 
James II). She refused to take the throne unless her husband, William of Orange, 
was made King. Parliament agreed. As a result of this, Britain had two monarchs 
ruling simultaneously - rather than a Monarch and their consort. When Mary died, 
William continued as Monarch by himself.

So legally speaking, if William asked Parliament to make Hermione Queen 
Regnan and joint Monarch, rather than simply marry her and make her Queen 
Consort, then on King William's death, she could continue as sole monarch in her 
own right.

This is an *incredibly* unlikely scenario (Parliament only agreed to the William 
and Mary situation for very particular reasons), but I wasn't quite correct in saying 
there is *no* circumstance under which she could take over as Queen in her own 
right. There is a precedent.

I suppose... being incredibly hypothetical here... if the knowledge of the Wizarding 
World became public, and such a mechanism was a way of uniting the Wizarding 
World with the Muggle World, you might have a situation sufficiently complicated 
to create such circumstances.


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