Nob and Nobility

Living in a country which have no real tradition with nobility I can´t help but wondering about how those of you who live in countries which still have nobilty feels about it. Is this whole nobility thing just archaic or does it still have a place in modern society ?

 

Can of worms...

 

Doesn't Norway have a King?

Nobility does not play any role in France.(And I think it is good so)They still live in marvellous castles but find it increasingly hard to finance them.

The Duke of Orléans is still pretendend to the throne of France(Bourbon Family are pretending for nearly 200 years), but monarchists do not have any political influence, they are a minor group called catholic traditionalists inside right wing party "Front National".

But I think parliamentary monarchy is as good a political system as a republic.

 

In most of countries in eastern Europe there are almost no memebers of nobility, though there are strong traditions. Since 1918 after the Austro-Hungarian empire was destroyed, most of them moved away and never came back. The Habsburg family for instance has forbidden entrance to Austria until they will end they pretendance for the empire's throne.

 

Hapsburg

Slight deviation from original subject!We in the 1st.Queens Dragoon Guards wear the Hapsburg Eagle as cap badge.The regiment has long connections with Austria.Regimental Band visits and plays in Vienna, regimentak quick march is the Redetsky March, cap badge was changed in WW1 but reverted to the "Double Headed S****hawk" after war.
Franz Joseph was honoury colonel and I still wear my eagles with pride.

 

The official statement of the Austrian government doesn't express the real relationship of common Austrians to Habsburgs. Most of them glorify the era of the empire as something nice, ancient and romantic.

 

Re: Hapsburg

Way cool! I am always intrigued by the centuries of lineage of many British units. I take it that the cooperation originated from the Napoleonic wars?

In Holland there are still noble families and of course there is a royal family, as we are a constitutional monarchy. But the nobility has no power whatsoever, just very long names and empty claims. The Queen is just a symbol, with some power but nothing very decisive.

 

hapsburg

Just trying to insert picture!

 

got it!!!

GOT IT!!!!!
NOT BAD FOR AN "OLD UN""
PLEASE< no more promotions on strength of postings!
I AM A TROOPER <SENIOR CAVALRY REGIMENT OF THE LINE>
Certainly not an American with stripes upside down!
Use this if permitted.

 

Sorry, we can't stop that. Maybe we can insert your own unit badge but don't count on it, sorry. Soon we'd all be having our own avatars, which is one of the chaotic elements of other forae that I don't mind not being possible here.

 

Back on topic, I forgot to mention that medals of honour or accomplishment in the Netherlands usually mean the representation of some nobility league. This means that those who are awarded medals are actually made noble (what's the correct expression?).

 

Depends on the level of nobility awarded.

 

Knight.

 

That would be Sir Roel.

 

Yes, but what's the word for it? Being Knighted or something?

Sir Roel, don't it sound good?

 

You are Knighted (that is the ceremony) and then you are a knight.

Sir Roel. It does sound good, doesn't it?

Personally, I like the sound of King Richard...

 

How about King Dick.


Who in the room likes King Dick.

 

I don't think I want to go there...

 

Well, one might argue that he was a good king but recent evidence has shown that he was a war-mongering brute who was happy to leave his country to fight the Saracens and... Oh, you weren't talking about that Richard!

 

Well:
Richard I was more interested in fighting than anything else
Richard II was a bit of a drip
Richard III has been so mistreated by Tudor propaganda that nobody really can tell what he was like

Richard IV? Well, in the words of a young Princess Victoria, upon being told she would one day be queen:
"I promise to be good"