He’s Charles Phillip Arthur George. Could there even be a King Arthur II when it’s not sure there was actually a King Arthur I?
He’s also known to have been very fond of his uncle, Louis Mountbatten - but King Louis is a French and Disney name, so maybe not.
No. Edward I did not become Edward IV, since there had been three Saxon kings named Edward. So any modern day Arthur would be Arthur I.
One of the least known kings of England was Louis VIII of France
who was declared king on 2 June 1216 after a partially successful invasion, but was never crowned. Eventually they paid him 10,000 crowns to go away and pretend it never happened.
There might be some debate in the church about whether she should be crowned as part of the coronation service, which is a religious sacrament as much as it is a constitutional ceremonial.
You’re right that they have been playing this question very cautiously over the years as a consequence of You-Know-What, but there is a low-intensity, softly softly, PR process to create a sense of inevitability about the idea of her being referred to as Queen when the time comes.
I stand corrected.
Yes, but he was invited over to become king and was made joint monarch (duarch?) by Parliament in 1689. Thus he was indeed a King in his own right.
Complicated and murky history prior to The Norman Conquest means we count monarchs from William I onwards, so any Arthur would be Arthur I.
Besides, if Arthur existed at all, he wouldn’t have been King of England as England didn’t exist as a nation state. (Yes yes, I know the current Queen is not ‘Queen of England’ but it’s how, by tradition, we count our monarchs, otherwise the current Queen would be QEI.
But it’s not one of his names. The British monarchy isn’t like the popes, who take new names.
The monarchs always use one of their own baptismal names (which is significant if you’re going to be the governor of the Church of England, I would think).
As far as I know, the only case of a British monarch taking an entirely new name was one of the early Stewarts in Scotland, who was in a rather weak political position and changed his name to try and emphasise continuity with his predecessors.
Edward VIII was David all of his life, and he was the heir.
The royal family wasn’t quite at the same level of celebrity notoriety and interest then, were they? Certainly he was known, but not in the gossip-magazine way Charles is known.
It runs in the family. George I imprisoned his wife (the mother of George II) for the last 30 years of her life after she supposedly had an affair with Count Königsmarck.
And don’t even ask about what happened to Count Königsmarck!
He was only David among friends and family; other than that he styled Prince Edward, then the Prince of Wales.
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Not, i fancy, if he would like his head to remain connected to his shoulders.
Plus the pants are too big for him
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Similarly, “Duchess” can either mean the wife of a Duke, or a secret agent.
An Archer reference.
I don’t think so: Philip II of Spain - Wikipedia
It’s a good enough name for his latest grandson to get it, but I agree with those who’ve already suggested that he’s likely to take Charles III as his regnal name. It’s been his first name his entire (long) life, and I suspect very few people remember enough about Charles I or II to think the name unsuitable or unlucky.
What happened to Count Königsmarck? 
The Duchess of Sussex now has a coat of arms, as it happens: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/europe/duchess-sussex-meghan-markle-coat-of-arms-intl/index.html
He was disappeared, allegedly on George’s orders.
[sepulchral voice] He was never seen again… [/sepulchral voice]
Accounts differ as to the details, but it’s pretty clear that he was “disappeared” on George’s orders. Most accounts say he was killed and the body thrown into a river.
Some accounts suggest that there was also dismemberment, pre- and/or post-mortem .
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Chile never had a king, nor a viceroy like many colonies. Captain-General was their leader.
And the beautiful poppies represent the ones her husband must’ve seen while operating in Afghanistan, in one of the top opium producing regions in the world.