lDid Great Britain recognize Satoshi as the prince? No, Germans still rule it. Elizabeth Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, the Second of Her Name, soloes.
And Mike, before Henry VIII there were morganatic marriages, but Henry The Fourth declared that John of Gaunt's progeny from morganatic marriages could not inherit. Henry the Seventh who descended from it ascended to the throne by right of conquest officially, as did Wilhelm the Bastard. It it is during Henry VIII's reign that morganatic marriages became fully acceptable.
All of it happened long after the classic version on which Nasu bases was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth (who cribbed heavily Celtic myths, leaving many core elements intact anyway)
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