Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Did Charles Stuart ever indicate he thought of himself that way or was that solely an attempt by Whigs to discredit the idea of him being royalty (to bring him down to the level of everyone else, so to speak)?
There is a fairly significant Chinese Muslim minority - Han, not just Uyghur - in SW China. I stayed in a Muslim Chinese town in north Thailand that had a mosque and a muezzin calling prayers in the morning. My understanding is that Islam spread with Chinese traders who were in contact with Muslim traders on the route from Yunnan (SW China) through the mountains to Thailand and Burma.
Technically incorrect according to PRC government policy. They classify Han-like Muslims as Hui, a separate ethnic group. I've met quite a few Hui, but I've never met or heard of one that disagrees with the idea that Hui are separate from Han. The Hui I've met have either strongly affirmed or strongly denied the idea that you can by Hui but not Muslim.
Still, that itself implies that his family name was known. It may not have been applied to the king personally, but it was understood that his family had a name, while nobody seems entirely sure what the current royal family's name is; maybe it's "Windsor", but the princes are apparently "Wales", and "Mountbatten" is in there somewhere as well. There seems to be a deliberate effort to avoid having a readily-identifiable family name, in a way which you don't really see with the Tudors and Stuart.According to Wikipedia, the official style of Charles I as king was "Charles, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc." The authors of his death warrant referred to him as "Charles Stuart, King of England". That would rather imply (understandably so) that the Parliamentarians wanted to stress that he was simply a normal man (with a surname) who happened to be king, rather than anything else.
The use of "von" was legally restricted in the imperial era, though, so it was never just a name to begin with.
Technically, the Dutch king is called King Willem-Alexander (plus other forenames), because as a member of royalty, he has no surname, but he is the head of the Huis van Oranje-Nassau, as King of the Netherlands. His father, Prince Claus, was of House van Amsberg, so presumably King Willem and his family are too.
Harry is the son of the Prince of Wales, FP,
Harry is the son of the Prince of Wales, FP, but it's traditional to adopt your father's locality if you don't have one of your own. His cousin, James, Viscount Severn, would be Prince James of Wessex, because he's in male-line descent from the reigning monarch, but instead he's 'merely' styled as the son of an earl (Prince Edward being Earl of Wessex), in an apparently deliberate attempt to de-emphasise his royal titles. Thus, his name is "The Honourable James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten-Windsor, Viscount Severn", but he could have been "His Royal Highness Prince James of Wessex, Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". One set has a surname: the other doesn't.
As I seem to recall Ian Hislop saying, after accidentally referring to Prince William as the heir to the throne, it's odd how the mind instinctively skips a generation there for some reason...
Charles is almost as old as my dad and has been Prince of Wales for 45 years, so I can understand people simply not thinking of him as King, but I'm not sure about overlooking him entirely. Is that something to do with his politics, with William being much more photogenic or what?
Really?? The UK recently adopted absolute primogeniture, rather than male-preference (cognatic-agnatic) primogeniture, but the main principle of primogeniture is that the offspring of elder heirs take precedence over younger heirs. It's been that way almost since the year dot!Yes, he does. If Prince Charles were to drop dead, the heir apparent would become the Queen's oldest surviving son.
Really?? The UK recently adopted absolute primogeniture, rather than male-preference (cognatic-agnatic) primogeniture, but the main principle of primogeniture is that the offspring of elder heirs take precedence over younger heirs. It's been that way almost since the year dot!