#titleseries

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Titles in Dialogue | insp. ↳ Stargate SG-1, Season One

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THE PRINCESS ROYAL, PRINCESS ANNE (b. 15 August 1950) for @leonisandmurex

Princess Royal is a title customarily (but not automatically) awarded by British monarchs to their eldest daughters. Although purely honorary, it is the highest honour that may be given to a female member of the royal family. There have been seven Princesses Royal; Princess Anne became Princess Royal in 1987. The title Princess Royal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charles I (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of France was styled "Madame Royale". Thus, Princess Mary (born 1631), the daughter of Henrietta Maria and Charles, became the first Princess Royal in 1642. The title is held for life, even if the holder outlives her parent the monarch.

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LEONOR, PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS (b. 2005) | “Asturias is also the land of my mother, The Queen. Asturian blood runs through my veins.”

The title originated in 1388, when King John I of Castile granted the dignity—which included jurisdiction over the territory of Asturias—to his first-born son Henry. In an attempt to end the dynastic struggle between the heirs of Kings Peter I and Henry II of Castile, the principality was chosen as the highest jurisdictional lordship the King could grant that had not yet been granted to anyone. The custom of granting unique titles to royal heirs had already been in use in the Crown of Aragon (Prince of Girona) and the kingdoms of England (Prince of Wales), and France (Dauphin of Viennois). The title, therefore, had two purposes: to serve as a generic title to name the heir apparent or heir presumptive, and as a specific title to apply to the prince/princess who was first in the line of succession when the King transmitted to him/her the territory of the principality, with its government and its income. The current titular of the Principality is Leonor, who took that dignity on 19 June 2014, when her father, King Felipe VI, ascended to the throne following the abdication of her grandfather Juan Carlos I.

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CATHARINA-AMALIA, PRINCESS OF ORANGE (b. 2003)

The title “Prince of Orange” was created in 1163 by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, by elevating the county of Orange to a principality, in order to bolster his support in that area in his conflict with the Papacy. The title and land passed to the French noble houses of Baux, in 1173, and of Chalons, in 1393, before arriving with René of Nassau in 1530. The principality then passed to René’s cousin, the German-born nobleman from then Spanish Netherlands, William (known as “the Silent”), in 1544. Subsequently, William led a successful Dutch revolt against Spain, however with independence the new country became a decentralized republic rather than a unitary monarchy. With the 19th century emergence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the title has been traditionally borne by the heir apparent of the Dutch monarch. Although originally only borne by men, since 1983 the title descends via absolute primogeniture, which means that the holder can be either Prince or Princess of Orange. Since the investiture of her father Willem-Alexander as King on 30 April 2013, Princess Catharina-Amalia has borne the title Princess of Orange. The current Dutch royal dynasty, the House of Orange-Nassau, is not the only family to claim the dynastical title.

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PRINCESS ESTELLE, DUCHESS OF ÖSTERGÖTLAND (b. 2012)

Since the 13th century, Swedish princes and princesses in some dynasties have been created dukes and duchesses of various provinces. Since 1772, these are only honorary titles. There have been several Dukes and Duchesses of Östergötland. The current duchess is Princess Estelle since her birth in 2012. Local lore from Lake Sommen in southern Östergötland tells that a cow-beast called Urkon or Sommakoa will kill any crowned king that visits the district of Ydre. It was said that the Urkon killed legendary king Frode. As Frode was passing through Ydre, Urkon escaped its lake-cave and attacked him. Frode fled Ydre and thought he was safe but the beast caught and slew him.