Something like that. I'm not an absolute egalitarian as far as results go, only opportunity. So I'm balanced on the issue <g>
Anyway, Dutch and Scandic royalty is fine. But my model for potential royalty is C.B.Fry, a true all-rounder...
He was a great batsman at a time when English cricket was at its zenith, an international soccer player, the co-holder of the world long-jumping record while still at university, and an outstanding amateur all-rounder. He also stood as a reform-minded Liberal candidate for the British Parliament three times (losing honorably on each occasion), commanded a naval training school in southern England, edited a popular publication called Fry's Magazine, produced several books on cricket that are still classics, flirted with a career in Hollywood and wrote epigrams or translated English hymns into Greek for fun--when he was not talking incessantly or practicing his dancing. - from a biographical review
In the 1920s, while spending three years as a delegate to the League of Nations, he was offered the throne of Albania... now, there's a king.
Apparently he was also extremely snobbish - essential - and a somewhat ruthless competitor. Hmmm. And impressed by Hitler, which these days is not so good (and was not atypical among the more anti-Semitic British upper-class at that time). As Royal flaws go, there have been far worse... and at least he had a higher IQ than lichen.
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