Talk:Death and state funeral of Edward VII

Dodgy assertion

"and one of the last before World War I ended the era of European royalty."

Well OK. World War I ended the German and Austrian monarchy. And I guess it ended the German sub-monarchies.

But the British, Spanish, Italian, Netherlandish, Belgian, Luxembourg, Monegasque, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Serbian, Greek, Romanian and Bulgarian monarchies persevered. So yeah, really the end of the era of European royalty. Umm no.Eregli bob (talk) 03:44, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Fair point. But the Russian and Ottoman monarchies were also overthrown in the war and its aftermath. Out of the five nations that were thought of as the great powers in Europe before the war (Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia), four were monarchies before the war, and three had monarchs who wielded great influence in the workings of government. All three of those monarchies fell, so that all the monarchs in Europe after the war were either figureheads or genuine rulers of minor nations. I would guess that the fall of so many monarchies in a short period created a general feeling that royalty was a bit of a relic, though not as strong as that feeling is today. Still, I toned down the sentence a bit. A. Parrot (talk) 20:28, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Listing order

When I created this article, I replicated the order given in my source, which was also more or less the order the actual riders rode in, and seems to represent some kind of rough order of precedence. This has been changed to an apparently random order with no discussion. For instance, riding immediately side by side with George V were his uncle the Duke of Connaught and his cousin the Kaiser. Now the Kaiser is listed after all the foreign kings and Connaught somewhere towards the bottom of the list. On what grounds? john k (talk) 17:33, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Edits

I have made a little change to the description of the Nine Sovereigns photo. Maymichael2 (talk) 17:08, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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Nephews & nephews-in-law.

Describing a nephew by marriage as being a nephew, is misleading to our readers. GoodDay (talk) 21:56, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Not at all. Surtsicna (talk) 23:33, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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Death and?

This article is not about his death. Maybe the section from his main article should be pasted here and be summarised in the main article. Grassynoel (talk) 05:25, 8 February 2023 (UTC)