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**As with most Kingdoms that last for a long time, there have been so many turnovers in Britain that legitimacy is questionable. Arguably in fact the legitimate government is the Scandinavian-Saxon which was an [[Elective Monarchy]] (which would justify Parliamentary Supremacy). Even that is doubtful as before that though was the Celtic/Romans. And [[Fridge Logic|Who was king of the Beaker People anyway?]]
* Happened a number of times in [[World War Two]]: King Haakon VII of Norway, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg were forced to flee to the court of King George VI in London when the Nazis overran their nations (Wilhelmina later relocated to Canada temporarily). They became major symbols of resistance for the occupied nations, and returned home in 1945 on the heels of the Allied armies.
**The first and one of the most interesting and little remembered examples of this was Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia (the first Axis conquest to be liberated). The British, short of military resources struck at the Italians by doing a "Bonnie Prince Charlie" style weaponization of an exiled royal, and Haile Selassie fit admirably. In ''The Desert War'' Alan Moorehead tells of a suitably propagandized scene where they set the emperor in front of cameras while Ethiopian chieftains came to reaffirm homage. The Ethiopians and a cadre of British later ran the Italians out of Ethiopia by a combination of superior tactics and diplomacy (notably by the eccentric British guerilla Wingate).
* Similarly happened at the end of [[World War I]], when the royalty of most of the occupied nations (including Belgium, Serbia, and Romania) returned to their capitals. Subverted in the case of Luxembourg, where the Grand Duchess' [[The Quisling|collaboration with the Germans]] did not play well as Luxembourgians fought and died elsewhere against the Germans, and the return of the Allied armies in fact saw her being forced to abdicate. Averted but tried in the case of Montenegro (where the Serbian crown forced a union of the South Slavic states under the rule of Belgrade in the face of armed Montenegrin resistance).
** King Ferdinand I of Romania had fled to the north of the country by 1917, but did not leave Romanian territory. [[Genre Savvy|He understood how]] the resistance to the Imperial German forces might have collapsed if he appeared to have fled the country.
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