# What if a female monarch gives birth to identical twins? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 19, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362 "2006-06-19T23:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362/21 "2006-06-20T10:05:35Z")
[Los Condes Gemelos](http://www.answers.com/topic/ramon-berenguer-ii-count-of-barcelona) The Count of Barcelona had twins. Berenguer Ramón II and Ramón Berenguer II. The IIs aren’t part of the names, each was the second count of his name. The reason Barcelona had more Ramones Berenguer than Berengueres Ramones is that in 1082, Ramón got sick of sharing the County with his brother and got himself nicknamed “the Fratricide”. The link is wiki ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362/22 "2006-06-20T10:07:05Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > Even with a c-section, they are lifted out one at a time. I imagine an incision large enough to take two babies out through simultaneously would very likely kill the mother. OK, but that could still happen; it has been known for queens to fall somewhat out of favour with everyone; what would happen to succession if the survival of the queen was simply disregarded and both twins were _untimely ripp’d_ from their mothers womb together? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362/23 "2006-06-20T10:11:41Z")
Or suppose the medical staff whisk the babies to another room, put the babies under a sheet, and shuffle them like someone running a shell game? Or how about a philandering male monarch that impregnates two women who give birth simultaneously? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362/24 "2006-06-20T10:21:00Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > From “The horse and his boy.” Ah, one of Catharine the Great’s favorite reads. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362/25 "2006-06-20T10:25:20Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Or how about a philandering male monarch that impregnates two women who give birth simultaneously? doesn’t apply, bastards don’t come in the line of succession and he can’t be legally married to two women simultaneously. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362/26 "2006-06-20T11:52:04Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Well, that would complicate things. First she’d lay a kazillion identical eggs . . . But the true heir to the throne can be easily identified by his taste for milkweed! 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-a-female-monarch-gives-birth-to-identical-twins/361362.md?page=1)