Are there any Kings left in the world and if there are, where are they from?

Question

Are there any Kings left in the world and if there are, where are they from?

Answer 1

There are currently 10 Kings in the world:

Carl XVI Gustaf is King of Sweden

Goodwill Zwelethini is King of the Zulus (in South Africa)

Juan Carlos I is King of Spain

Mswati III is King of Swaziland

Harald V is King of Norway

Albert II is King of Belgians

Solomon Gafabusa Iguru is King of Bunyoro-Kitara (in Uganda)

Letsie III is King of Lesotho

Abdullah II is King of Jordan

Mohammed VI is King of Morocco

Gyanendra is King of Nepal

Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah is King of Bahrain

Soane Patita Maituku is King of Alo (in Wallis and Futuna, a French territory in the Pacific Ocean)

Visesio Moeliku is King of Sigave (in Wallis and Futuna)

Norodom Sihamoni is King of Cambodia

Abdullah is King of Saudi Arabia

George Tupou V is King of Tonga

Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck is King of Bhutan

Answer 2

There are a number of kings: Nepal still has a king, but the government there is seeking to get rid of him, he is very unpopular, and the monarchy there will go. Saudi Arabia has a king, and no provision under law for a female to inherit...but no shortage of heirs, as 2 million of the 7 million population are members of the royal family, the House of Saud, who beat the Hashemites to be kings after WW1. Jordan, has a Hashemite King, whose grandfather arrived there back in 1922; the British made him an Emir in 1924 to stop him from going to Syria as a rival claimant to the thrown the French had set up there (that king was deposed later anyway) and the Emir of Transjordan made himself a king in 1946, unilaterally. King Juan carlos of Spain, is a Bourbon monarch (of the Bourbon-Orleans branch of the dynasty which was also in France until 1789, and then restored 1818-1830. (there are two rival royal houses in France now, the Bourbon-Orleans, and Bonapartes. There is still a king in Tonga, and Thailand, and Cambodia. The monarchies of Britain, Netherlands, Denmark will have kings next in line once the reigning females are gone. Norway has King Haarkon, and his family (from Denmark) have been kings since Morway separated from Sweden in 1905. Sweden also has a King, I believe...of a non-Swedish line, descended from Grand Marshall Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's generals. The Swedish norarchs have a limited role and even more limited popularity. Morocco also still has a king,

Japan of course, has its Crysanthemum Throne and Emperor; Korea had an Emperor too, until 1910 when Japan defeated and annexed Korea (1910-1945). Although the Emperor and immediate family were assassinated, there are rumoured to be heirs still...but as Korea itself has been divided since the 1950-53 war, it is also unlikely to ever have a return. same with the Qing Dynasty of China, which was Manchurian (1644-1911), Manchuria originally being outside of China in the north-east (Manchukuo under the puppet regime set up by japan 1933-1945 under the last Manchurian emperor, Pu-Yi, who died a market-gardener with no issue of his own, although there are male family members, particuklarly amomgst those members who collabarted with the Japanese and refugeed to japan at the end of World War 2...but a restoration would be unthinkable and incredibly unlikely. There are also male descendants now of the Stuarts of Scotland...similarly they are never likely to regain the throne of an independent Scotland. The dynasty is decsneded thrugh the female line, the direct male line becoming extinct in 1807.

There are a number of principalities, such as Monaco, where the ruler is a Prince, not a King. There are also a number of deposed monarchies: Greece, has a monarchy which was deposed by a military coup in 1967, but that dynasty was elected by the Council of Europe in 1868, and they chose the brother of the woman who became Queen Alexandra of Britain (Edward VIIs consort), of the Scheswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Augustenber... royal house of Denmark...which through a century of going back to Denmark for brides, remains more danish in bloodline than the current danish royal house! Grand Duke Wladimir, a German-raised Romanov, is the claimant to Russia's throne, and lives in Spain: no one seriously thinks the monarchy will be restored there. Romania has a king-in-exile, of the Saxe-Coburg dynasty...the same family as Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort. Austria has its own line of kaisers, ( both Germany and Austria called their emperor/kings 'kaiser') the Hapsburgs, deposed in 1918 and constititionally barred from running for office in Austria unless a family member formally renounces any claim to the throne; Germany still has the Hohenzollerns of Prussia, deposed in 1918 and then living in the Netherlands till 1941, and still in existence today. Hawaii technically has a male heir to the monarchy, which was overthrown by American settlers in 1893, but that heir would be heir presumptive, because his mother (who still holds the title of Princess) is still alive and holds a lot of personal power still, though not in the running of the State. She led the drive for the restoration of the Palace, but concentrates mostly on her pastoral landholdings. Egypt still has the decsnedants of King Farouk, deposed in 1958, and there are hashemite claimants to Iraq and Syria but they are priginally Arabian families without any real ties to those countries, and will never be popularly returned (they were installed by the Allies in the carve up of the Ottoman Empire). There is even a rival claimant to the throne of Great Britain, a Plantagenet, a descendant of Edward III, if Edward IV was not a legitimate heir (and his position was tenuous at best) which is a stronger claim to being a descendant of William the Conqueror than Elizabeth II...who lives in New South Wales, Australia. The BBC did a whole program on him (very interesting, but if he were to be King, he is not at all interested...he's a research scientist for the CSIRO). there are also Ottoman heirs, but they would be restricted to Turkey and that's never going to happen...and Libya has a dynasty, and it will also never be returned. Hungary...would have a Hapsburg heir, the same as for Austria, under the rules of the Dual Monarchy set when the Austrian Empire became the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856 and the Austrian Kaiser was simultaneously King of Hungary.

There are many more kings...than countries which wish to have them as heads of State!

There are others, but that's a few of them for you!

Answer 3

I'm a prince angel god saint I may be over qulified for this question I'm from rare origins

Answer 4

King Juan Carlos I of Spain,the same line that Louis XIV of France(Bourbon)

Answer 5

Jordan has king, so does Saudi Arabia. Iraq's old king deposed 1959(?) lives in Italy. Afghanistan? Maybe in exile also- sensibly doesn't want the country as is, Socialist/Marxists ended monarchy some years back. Constitutional monarchies ? Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, England- kings in waiting after current Queen expires. in couple.  Greece has royal family but limited role after socialist governments- still recognized as national family for some ceremonies.