The 10 Best and Worst Child Monarchs

Omg, so true about the Anointed/Annoying one. 

Roger Langridge is doing some wonderful things with a newly crowned queen in SNARKED! over at boom

RE: Beauty & the Beast – I think the general idea is that he was 11 or so since it needs to be by his 21st birthday and Be Our Guest says “10 years we’ve been rusting.” Also – the movie takes place in France which I believe (I’m no history major..) used to be made up of principalities - Monaco being the only one that is still around. 

Great list. :)

I’m on book 5 of Song of Ice and Fire and I STILL want to punch Joffrey in the face.

Admit it, you chose that title just so you could use that picture, didn’t you? 

It was brilliant.

It does at least make Spike’s first scene pretty great though,

 True! And I do love me some Spike.

To be fair, Beast was eleven. How many 11 year olds do you know who aren’t on the bratty side? Add that to the fact that he didn’t have an overriding authority figure (a parent) to tell him what he can and can’t do cause there wasn’t one present, and the servants were servants. Their job was to get Beast whatever he wanted. There was no way that he couldn’t end up being a brat. 

A friend of mine has a slightly different theory.  The portrait of the Beast that Belle finds looks identical to how he transforms at the end – it certainly isn’t an 11 year old’s picture.  My friend thinks that the fairy’s line ‘by his 21st year’ meant the 21st year after being enchanted – that aging stood still while the spell was in force and that it could be in force for up to 21 years.  And it gives more time for contact with the town to have died off (the town is apparently less than a day’s travel away).  So perhaps the castle residents have only been completely isolated for 10 years out of a 21 year total.  *shrug*  It would mean the fairy didn’t curse a kid – but it would mean Belle hooked up with a guy who had more than two decades on her.

Well, there was that bit where Arthur loaded up an entire shipload of babies born on a certain day with the intent of sinking the boat, thanks to Merlin hitting the king with a prophecy.  To wit: A baby born on this day would grow up to kill the king and destroy Camelot.

There was a survivor, of course: Mordred, who now had motivation to kill the king and destroy Camelot because, well, the king tried to kill him when he was a baby!

Awkward, to say the least.

I’ve not seen a single frame of the show, nor read any of the books, and I want to punch him in the face on the strength of that photo alone.

I love Aang, don’t get me wrong…but if we’re talking about the best and worst child monarchs shouldn’t we be talking about Zuko?  He’s both, in one!

Ah but Zuko never actually became a ruler till the end of the series..

Was that really his first scene?

Where does the Childlike Empress fall in this scenario?

Ah, my bad. His first *episode*. His first scene is crashing the Anointed One’s meeting and talking about how he was at Woodstock. Then at the end of the episode when the brat gets annoyed with him for not killing the Slayer, Spike dusts him.

If Padme was elected then she wasn’t really a Queen. Maybe chancellor would be a more fitting title.

Monarchies are not always hereditary.  It is the most common type in this day and age, but there is at least one existent elective monarchy: the Vatican.  There is some evidence that monarchies that are now hereditary have previously had democratic elements in the selection of heirs.  Also, if a country wants to call it’s head of state or head of government a queen or king, it’s really their business.  She may not be a queen in the sense that we are accustomed to thinking about queens, but if that’s what Naboo’s society calls the position that Amidala held, then that’s what it is called.

 The real question is who elected her, and who the other candidates are. If the electors were some small and insular body, then just maybe I could see them electing a 14 year-old with favorable oracles and a high GPA. If it was a general popular vote though — what must that campaign have looked like? Was she running against Jar Jar? Was she, former junior-high class president, put on the ballot as a joke protest vote only to ride a wave of seething public dissatisfaction with the stagnant political order on Naboo?

 ”Was she, former junior-high class president, put on the ballot as a joke
protest vote only to ride a wave of seething public dissatisfaction
with the stagnant political order on Naboo?”

New. Favorite. Fanon.

Joff does improve, eventually. Given a flexible definition of “improve.” I certainly like him better afterwards.

lol at beauty and the beast

Nice one! Also- for decent child-vampires, try Skyrim’s Dark Brotherhood.