I have a odd question about World History, similar i guess?

Question

What happens if you were a king and queen and you have a daughter thats a princess or even son. If you only have one or one dies then next dies before your reign is up as King what happens when you die as queen? will there be somekinda election for the next elected king and queen or no?

Answer 1

One can only be a king or a queen and not king and queen.    If a king has a daughter, usually she is a princess but not a son.  A son would be a prince unless he came out of the closet and then might be a queen and a princess.

There is a long list of various heirs to some degree in the unlikely event that there would be no direct heir.

I believe Poland did elect kings but I'm not sure to what degree. It may have been nobles who did the electing.

If a king dies and his wife survives him, she as consort, may be given the title of queen mother or the dowager queen, in some countries.

If the queen is queen in her own right, she would only be styled queen mother if she abdicated in favor of someone else and was given this title.

Occasionally, an election is held to determine the status of a monarchy.  This happened after WWII in Italy and within the last few years in Brazil.

Answer 2

Every royal house has an order of succession system, which is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant. In hereditary monarchies the order of succession is followed in order to determine who becomes the new monarch when the old monarch dies or vacates the throne.

Such orders of succession generally specify which descendant of the previous monarch, or in default of a direct heir, which sibling or collateral of the previous monarch, will assume the throne. Generally, the line of succession is restricted to persons of the blood royal, that is to those born into or descended from the present royal family or a previous sovereign.

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_suc...

Answer 3

Rachelle has really answered your question on the order of succession. However, there are rare cases where there is nobody left at all. Greece was one such example. Their government invited the second son of the King of Denmark to become king, who was the ancestor of the present Greek Royal family (who aren't currently recognised), and Prince Phillip. The Finnish government wanted to start a royal family de novo, following independence from Russia in 1917. A German was invited, who accepted, and a date was set for the coronation. But, he changed his mind following the collapse of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German thrones.  

Theoretically, any nation could 'elect' a King, should they so choose, though that is highly unlikely.