If you're a member of the royal family, do u hav to marry someone who has royal blood?

Question

If you're a member of the royal family, do u hav to marry someone who has royal blood?

Answer 1

No. But you do have to marry someone of impeccable background.A person marrying into any royal family must have approval of the monarch and government.It helps to be well-educated,intelligent,well-mannered,... to travel about to many royal obligations which aren't always fun,not have a criminal record,and for some families,be of the correct religious  persuasion(in England,being Church of England is a must if the royal is to remain in succession). Many royals have married commoners: George VI(father of the current Queen Elizabeth II) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon(titled nobility aren't royals);Charles, Prince of Wales,married Lady Diana Spencer;Prince Andrew,Duke of York married Sarah Ferguson;Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex,married Sophie Rhys-Jones;Crown Prince Felipe of Spain married newscaster Letizia Ortiz,Mary Donaldson married Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark,and Queen Rania was a commoner before marrying the current King of Jordan....there are many more such pairings.

Answer 2

Prince Charles didn't, Carl Gustav of Sweden didn't .. most don't.....the Queen didn't...if Prince William marries Kate Middleton he won't either...

I believe in Victorian times there were lots of royals in Britain and everywhere because they intermarried...cousin married first cousin..  so the Royal blood stayed in the family and that caused Hemophilia in a lot of male heirs... because a first cousin marrying another first cousin that's too close a relationship... so a lot of Queen

Victoria's descendants had that bleeding disorder where the blood does not clot and a bruise can be fatal.. women were carriers but only men could become hemopheliacs.. victims of the disease....

Perhaps modern ways are better...I think they do well enough most of the ones who married into a Royal family....

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Answer 3

Not necessarily, nowdays, you'll discover that more and more royal members have "commoner" spouses. As long as the the royal member is not violating any of their succession rights, and have received a "blessing" from the monarch, they are really good to go.

Many royals meet their partners at universities, social events, jobs, friends etc. It is really hard to predict who and where they will meet their future spouse. For example, Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden is currently dating her personal trainer, Daniel Westling. She is currently the world's only female heir apparent to a royal throne. If she ascends to the throne as expected she will be Sweden's second Queen Regnant.

During April 2005 she was interviewed by a reporter who brought up the subject of royals marrying commoners, to which the princess responded, "I think the general idea of Swedes is that it's the modern way to marry someone that you love, not necessarily where she or he comes from".

Answer 4

supposedly yes but times nowadays are changing. more and more members of the royal family are falling in love with commoners.

Answer 5

Not really but it is preferable,to keep the illusions of the ages.

Answer 6

Nope.  the queen's grandson is marrying a commoner from Canada this year.

Answer 7

No, just blue blood.

Answer 8

It would help ,so that the bloodline is preserved. But in modern times,a good moral character is more important.

Answer 9

Yea, in the days they were all: why won't you marry your cousin! And then they got this kind of ugly faces from the incest, and yea, now the group is more spread, but the very strict protocol still urges the royal family to marry with another royal one. But, what they don't say, is that they can marry a poor but royal commoner. Somebody who has the blood in his vains, but just lives like a normal human being. There are lots of them in the world, royal, but down to earth.

Maybe you are royal too!

Answer 10

i think so, it seems they are all related in some way.

Answer 11

not any more prince andrew married sarah and edward married sophie

Answer 12

No.But I would marry a very respected family or Noble Family.

Answer 13

It would be a plus, just make sure your not divorced...The royal family froun on that......

Answer 14

no...notable examples:  all of Queen Elizabeth II's children, and her sister Princess Margaret.

All of Juan Carlos I's children, in fact, all of the royals of this generation, including Caroline and Stephanie of Monaco, the princes and princesses of the Scandinavian countries...even the current Emperor of Japan.  Alomst no one has married within royalty in this generation, there is probably one or two that I can't think of off the top of my head.

Answer 15

Well, it depends . . . I guess the most correct answer would be "Not always" . . . or maybe "Not anymore".

Well, it is approved of if royal family members marry other royal family members, but that's kind of difficult now that there are so few royal families left. But royal family members are required to marry someone relatively respectable . . . or at least that's the wish of many people.

The basic wishes are that a potential bride into a royal family is the right age (compared to her husband-to-be) and previously unmarried, with no skeletons in her closet. Oh, and fertile - that's a must. It would be better if she was the daughter of some prestigious company owner or something, but it's no longer a requirement for fear of being classist. It can be a political image nightmare when the potential princess is divorced, has children by her previous husband, and is older than her husband-to-be . . . if not completely blue-collar.

In Japan, the answer is "Not always" because women of the imperial family are required to marry within the family - well, marry someone of imperial status - if they wish to keep their position as princess. Otherwise, they become commoners upon their marriages and are no longer part of the imperial family. The bad thing about this is that the children resulting from the marriages are also commoners, which severely cuts down on the number of legitimate heirs produced. If you wanted a princess to get married and keep her part of the imperial family, you'd have to marry her to a cousin - or something close to a cousin - to do so.

On the other hand, men of the Japanese imperial family can marry pretty much whoever they want. However, there hasn't been an ill-bred princess yet, I suspect, thanks to a board that regulates the activities of the imperial family. They do have to be able to bear many children, though; that's an important stipulation here.