Talk:Personal union
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Decolonization
editBy this qualification, aren't all the Commonwealth Realms and the UK in personal union under their king? ISTM Canada should be listed under the Americas.Pithecanthropus4152 (talk) 21:28, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
dissolutions
edit- [Personal unions] can also be codified (i.e., the constitutions of the states clearly express that they shall share the same person as head of state) or non-codified, in which case they can easily be broken (e.g., by the death of the monarch when the two states have different succession laws).
Has a union of monarchies ever been dissolved by the extinction of descendants of the marriage that created it? —Tamfang (talk) 21:51, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
- One example that comes to mind is List of Navarrese monarchs#House of Capet, 1284–1349. Keriluamox (talk) 09:25, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hm, that looks more like the case of Hanover 1837: the successor in Navarre, at least, was a descendant. —Tamfang (talk) 03:36, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Non-hereditary
edit"The ruler in a personal union does not need to be a hereditary monarch" - does the President of France's role as Co-Prince of Andorra create a personal union between France and Andorra? Vultur~enwiki (talk) 16:01, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Andorra a republic??
editThe political system of Andorra is a parliamentary Coprincipality,not a republic,why is it listed as a republic in personal union?? UnsungHistory (talk) 21:59, 9 September 2024 (UTC)