The European countries' royals annually reviewed are as follows, with the key developments over the year outlined afterwards:
Existing hereditary monarchies: Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Spain, Monaco.
Former monarchies: Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, France.
2019
King
Carl XVI of Sweden rescinds royal status from his grandchildren in an effort to
streamline the Swedish royal family.
By
royal decree, following a visit to his family’s ancestral home in Germany, King
Philippe of the Belgians amends the royal coat of arms to reinstate the shield
of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which had been removed around a century earlier in
response to anti-German feeling at the time of the First World War.
Henri,
Count of Paris, and claimant to the former French throne as King Henri VII of
the French, dies aged 85. His second son, Prince
Jean, succeeds him as Orleanist claimant to the French throne. He is recognised
by monarchists as King Jean IV of the French.
