#abdication

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Three children of multiple royal families abdicated their roles because their fathers didn’t have “THE cunt

[unbfacts]

Roman Emperor Diocletian was the first to step down willingly. In 305 AD, he retired to the Dalmatian coast to grow vegetables, especially cabbages. When asked to return as emperor, he replied, “If you could see my cabbages, you wouldn’t ask,” and lived out his days as a gardener by the sea.

[gabriellademonaco]

white accession outfits:

Queen Mathilde of Belgium (2013)

Queen Letizia of Spain (2014)

Queen Mary of Denmark (2024)

Grand Duchess Stephanie of Luxembourg (2025)

[george-the-good]

Today, 3 years ago, I took over from David the job he had turned down as not being worth his while.

KING GEORGE VI reflects on the Abdication in his diary - December 11, 1939

SOURCE: Queen of Our Times by Robert Hardman (2022)

[thesixthduke]

OTD in 1936

[royalty-nobility]

The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots

Artist: Joseph Severn (English, 1793–1879)

Date: c. 1850

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Description

Mary Queen of Scots at Loch Leven Castle by Joseph Severn (1793-1879). The scene depicts Mary's signing of an act of abdication in favor of her son, James VI, after much persuasion by her nobles.

[les-vi-ana]

August getting the crown was a way to punish him for everything he's done

Since season 1 they have been repeating the same phrase "the crown is a privilege, not a punishment", Wille always felt the crown was a punishment while for August it was a privilege, when he still could not fully understand what it really meant to have it.

August had idealized the crown and Wille's life. Wille had his parents, he had Erik as a brother and he had the crown; In August's eyes, Wille had it all, but the reality was that Wille's life was much more complicated and stressful than August believed.

In his last conversation with Vincent and Nils, when August tells them that he is Wille's spare, his friends tell him something like "that's actually a bad thing, being just his cousin you enjoyed the privileges of being related to the royal family without the responsibilities, pressures, obligations, etc. This is going to be better for us because we are your friends and we can enjoy the privileges of being 'the friend of' but you are now going to have the entire burden of the title on your shoulders."

This is when the series shows us that that phrase that they had been telling us since season 1 was not true since the crown is a punishment.

Everything August believed the crown was was fantasy and idealization but the reality of what it means to be the crown prince is much more complex and harsh.

Wille managed to be free by leaving the crown and in a way imprisoning August. He could not report him to the police and have him go to jail for the crime he committed, but he could arrest him with that title and condemn him to an unhappy life.

Now Wille is free but August is not

[royalchildreneurope]

Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, Prince Charles of Luxembourg and Prince François of Luxembourg on the cover of the French magazine Point de Vue as Grand Duchess Maria Teresa gave an interview ahead of her husband, Grand Duke Henri's abdication in October 2025, in Luxembourg -May 20th 2025.

📷 : Thomas Pernette/Point de Vue.