As of November 1999
(update from 1997 may be incomplete)
In Alphabetical Order by Country
(Note: This does not purport to be an exhaustive list, but we believe
that it is comprehensive. Dates, if listed, indicate the year in which
the individual became claimant.)
Non-Reigning and
non-independent Monarchies
In instances where a bona fide dispute exists as to the theoretical
succession, the symbol -+ appears; however, we make no judgment as to the
validity or merits of any such disputed claims, but merely note that a
dispute exists.
AFGHANISTAN: HM King Mohammed Zahir Shah* (1933- )
Heir: HRH Crown Prince Ahmed Shah Khan **
ALBANIA: HM King Leka I (throne assumed in exile**) (1961- )
Heir: HRH Crown Prince Leka of Albania
ASHANTI: HM Asantehene Osei Tutu II (1999- )
AUSTRIA: HIRH Archduke Otto ** (1922- )
Heir: HIRH Archduke Karl of Austria-Hungary
BAVARIA: HRH Duke Franz (1996- )
BRAZIL: HIRH Prince Dom Luiz de Orleans e Braganga
-+
Heir: HIRH Prince Dom Bertrand de Orleans e Braganga (brother)
(Prince Pedro Carlos is genealogically senior but grandson of a prince
who renounced his claims)
BUGANDA: HM Kabaka Mutebi II(III) (1969- )
BULGARIA: HM King Simeon II* (1943- )
Heir: HRH Crown Prince Kardam of Bulgaria, Prince of Tirnovo
BURUNDI: Princess Rose Paula Iribagiza
Heir:Prunce Charles Muhirwa
BURMA: no known claimant
(Alaungpaya):Prince Shwebomin
CHINA(Ch'ing): no active claimant -+
Prince Yu Yan is recognized by some
EGYPT: HM King Ahmed Fouad II *** (1952- )
Heir: HRH Prince Muhammad Ali, Prince of Said
ESTONIA: no known claimant
ETHIOPIA: HIM Emperor Amha Selassie I (throne assumed in exile**) (1975-
)
[deceased 1997...no formal succession announced]
Heir: HIH Crown Prince Zara Yakob of Ethiopia
FRANCE (Empire): HIH Prince Jean Christophe Bonaparte
(The Prince Napoleon) (1997- )
+-
designated in his grandfather's will;disputed by his father Prince
Charles Bonaparte
FRANCE (Kingdom): HRH Prince Henri, Count of Paris (1999- ) -+
(son of the preceding claimant,previously known as Count of Clermont)
(Legitimist claimant: HRH Prince Luis Alfonso de Borbon, known to French
legitimists as the Duke of Anjou and Bourbon or Louis XX)
GEORGIA: HRH Prince George Bagration
Heir: HRH Prince Irakly Bagration
GERMANY: HIH Prince Georg Friedrich (1994- ) +
GREECE: HM King Constantine II* (1964- )
Heir: HRH Crown Prince Pavlos
HAITI: no known claimant
HANOVER: HRH Prince Ernst August(1987- )
HAWAII: HRH Prince Edward J. Kawananakoa (1997- )
HUNGARY (see also Austria): HIRH Archduke Otto, Crown Prince of Hungary
from 1916
Heir: HIRH Archduke Karl of Austria-Hungary
INDIA: no known imperial claimant (Maharajahs, nawabs, and other
princes of states not listed)
KANDY:Kandy Ramamurthy Rajah
IRAN: HIM Shah Reza II (throne assumed in exile**)
IRAQ: no active claimant
(there are competing theories of heirship)
ITALY: HRH Prince Victor Emanuel, Prince of Naples, Duke of Savoy**
Heir: HRH Prince Emanuel Filiberto, Prince of Venice
KOREA: [HIH Prince] Kyu Lee
LAOS: no known claimant
LATVIA: no known claimant
LIBYA: uncertain
Prince Mohammed el-Senussi was designated in 1992-3
LITHUANIA: no public claimant
MEXICO(Iturbide/Habsburg): no public claimant
Baroness Maria Anna Tunkl-Iturbide has been heir in blood of the
Iturbide dynasty since 1949;her nephew Count Maximilian
von Goetzen-Iturbide
is considered Head of House of both the Iturbide and (by adoption)
Habsburg claims,but does not press them.
MEXICO(Aztec): The Duke of Moctezuma
MODENA: HIRH Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este-+
(HRH the Duke of Bavaria[see above] is the heir in blood,
the Habsburgs have long claimed the title by a dubious devise)
MONTENEGRO: HRH Prince Nicholas Petrovich-Njegosh
MUSTANG: HH Raja Jigme Parbal Bista
NEPAL:H.M. King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev* (2001- )
Heir:HRH Crown Prince Paras**
OKYEMON: HM(?) Okyenhene Amoatia Ofori Panin II(1999- )
POLAND: the Polish monarchy was elective, not hereditary, and thus there
is no individual claimant
[the Polish monarchy was at partition in 1795 set to become hereditary
in a branch of the Saxon dynasty now extinct]
PORTUGAL: HRH Prince Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza (1978- )
Heir: HRH Prince Dom Afonso, Prince of Beira
PRUSSIA (see also Germany): HIRH Prince Georg Friedrich+ (1994- )
ROMANIA: HM King Michael I* (1940- )
RUSSIA: HIH Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna (1992- ) -+
Heir: HIH Grand Duke Georgi
(HH Prince Nicholas Romanoff [or Romanovsky-Cheremeteff]
also asserts a claim to be Head of the House of Romanoff)
RWANDA: HM King Kigeli V*
SARAWAK: no known claimant
SAXONY: HRH Prince Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (1968- )
SERBIA (see also Yugoslavia): HRH Crown Prince Alexander** (1970- )
Heir: HRH Prince Peter
SIKKIM: Prince Tenzing Wangchuk Namgyal(1982- )
TORO: HM Omukama Rukidi IV (1995- )
TWO SICILIES: HRH Prince Don Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Infante of Spain -+
TUNISIA: no known claimant
Prince Mohieddin (b. 1911) is believed to be senior by house law
TURKEY (Ottoman Empire): HIH Prince Ertogroul Osman (1994- )
UKRAINE: no known claimant
VENDA: uncertain
VIETNAM: HIH Crown Prince Bao Long** (1997- )
W\RTTEMBERG: HRH Prince Carl, Duke of W\rttemberg (1975- )
Heir: HRH Prince Friedrich
XHOSA: HM King Maxhoba Sandile
YEMEN: HRH Crown Prince Ahmad al-Ghani** (1996- )
YUGOSLAVIA: HRH Crown Prince Alexander** (1970- )
Heir: HRH Prince Peter
ZANZIBAR*: HH Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah (1963- )
ZULUS: HM King Goodwill Zwelithini (1972- )
*Former reigning monarch.
**Son and heir of last reigning monarch.
*** Reigned briefly as infant under Council of Regency
+ Prince Georg Friedrich is heir to the Kingdom of Prussia and the
German Empire. Heirs to the many small principalities and grand duchies
are not listed here, although the German kingdoms are listed.
