Fanaglian Monarchy

The Monarchy of the Kingdom of Fanaglia (commonly referred to as the Fanaglian Crown) was the absolutemonarchy of Fanaglia; the title of the monarch was king or queen. Fanaglia also had both the Six Dukes and the Council of Counts, who together functioned as legislative councils, but who officially only serve consultative tasks.

The short-lived Fanaglian Crown traced its origins to the Unification by King DiMarco of Fanaglia in 1842. While no official statutes governing royal succession were ever established, it was generally assumed that it would follow the rules of Arviragan succession, as DiMarco was the king of Arviragus before establishing himself king of the whole Fanaglian subcontinent, meaning that it was to be governed by male-preference cognatic primogeniture. This was disputed, however, by Queen Autumn, the second monarch, herself. As the only surviving offspring of King DiMarco, the Crown fell to her when she deposed her father; this in itself caused considerable conflict with Wilhelm, Duke of Arviragus and brother to DiMarco, who attempted but failed to assert his own claim to the throne, or to bring the monarchy to a vote amongst the Five Dukes. Autumn caused even more of a stir when she died, however, stating in her will that the Crown should go to Alice Dufresne, an orphan of non-royal blood whom she raised and adopted as her stepdaughter. This caused an outrage amongst Fanaglian conservatives, particularly the Zieglerists, who still supported Reiner Ziegler (the late Wilhelm's eldest son) as DiMarco's legitimate successor. Queen Alice's legitimacy was upheld, however, by four of the Six Dukes. Then Alice, the third and last Fanaglian monarch, abolished the monarchy in ____ and established the Republic of Fanaglia, much to the chagrin of the Zieglerists and which ultimately led to the Second Fanaglian Civil War, which resulted in a victory for the Republicans and an end to monarchy in Fanaglia.