Demoralized Georgia may renew itself by restoring its monarchy

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B>The International Commission on Nobility and Royalty</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=theintecommon-20&o=1&p=21&l=ur1&category=books&banner=1PBGJ6MX362TVT8X9P82&f=ifr" width="125" height="125" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </B></div> <div> <B> <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=theintecommon-20&o=1&p=21&l=ur1&category=books&banner=16ACY8Z6BEPHX51BA7G2&f=ifr" width="125" height="125" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Disclaimer: These articles are a public service. 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The Bagration dynasty is more than a thousand years old and was forcibly removed from the Georgian throne by Russia in 1801. The Georgian people never consented to the abolition of either their monarchy or their national sovereignty.</div> <bR> <div> When the Soviet Union collapsed and Georgia declared independence, one of the earliest proposals for a constitutional settlement was the restoration of the monarchy. In 1991 the Georgian government and parliament officially recognised Prince George Bagration-<IMG SRC="4520d25e0.jpg" border=0 width="466" height="350" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Moukhranski, formerly well known as a racing driver, as head of the royal house. The fact that they took the trouble to do so demonstrates that the monarchy was a substantive political issue.</div> <bR> <div> During the civil war and general turbulence that ensued, the monarchic question was sidelined, though it never completely disappeared. Opinion polls showed wildly fluctuating public opinion on a restoration, varying from 2 per cent support to 45 per cent (with only 29 per cent opposed). </div> <bR> <div> A succession of authoritarian presidents --- Gamsakhurdia, Shevardnadze and Saakashvili --- provoked a backlash against the power of the presidency. Lately the opposition parties have adopted the slogan "<B>Georgia without a President.</B>"</div> <bR> <div> Democrats have been talking about monarchy on the British model and citing the example of King Juan Carlos in Spain to prove the practicability of a restoration. What brought things back to the boil, however, was a sermon preached by the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch Illia II, on October 7 last year, in which he publicly called for the restoration of the monarchy as the "<B>desirable dream of the Georgian people</B>". That led to the question being debated in parliament.</div> <bR> <div> Now the situation has been radically transformed. Mikheil Saakashvili is badly discredited. The nation may, for the moment, be rallying around him as a symbol of national identity, but that effect will not last long. His was the only political party in Georgia unambiguously<IMG SRC="45167dbf0.jpg" border=0 width="381" height="191" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> opposed to a restoration, but it has little credibility now. In a time of defeat and suffering people are turning to the church, which is royalist.</div> <bR> <div> Georgia has no military options against Russia, its economy has been devastated, it lacks diplomatic leverage. Yet there is one politico-cultural gesture it could make to renew itself, to reassert its national identity, to unite around a non-partisan symbol, and that is to restore its monarchy. The fact that it was originally abolished by Russia would give added meaning to this act of constitutional renewal.</div> <bR> <div> The head of the royal house, the <I>de jure</I> King is His Royal Highness Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, which is obvious from the genealogy and the fact that both he and his ancestors followed the international law by claiming and using their titles throughout all their generations. There were no abdications and no one ever renounced their rights. Hence, their "<B>de jure</B>" rights are intact. This is the only family that holds the full and complete "<B>de jure</B>" sovereign right to the throne according to both international and dynastic law. (See: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Benguiat Bk BT" ><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SOVEREIGNTY THE FUTURE OF NOBILITY AND "><U><B>Sovereignty & The Future of Nobility and Royalty</B></U></A></FONT>" and "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Benguiat Bk BT" ><A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dynastic Law"><U><B>Dynastic Law</B></U></A></FONT>")</div> <bR> <div> (The above article on Georgia, with some slight changes, was published by <B>Telegraph.co.uk </B>on August 20, 2008 and can be seen at: <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008/08/20/demoralised_georgia_may_renew_itself_by_restoring_its_monarchy" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warn"><U><B><U>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008/08/20</U></B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008/08/20/demoralised_georgia_may_renew_itself_by_restoring_its_monarchy" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warn"><U><B><U>/demoralised_georgia_may_renew_itself_by_restoring_its_monarchy</U></B></U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>See the official website of the Royal House of Georgia at:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://georgianroyalhouse.jimdo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://georgianroyalhouse.jimdo.com"><U><B><U>http://georgianroyalhouse.jimdo.com</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The wedding between Prince David and Her Royal Highness Princess Anna of Georgia has come to an end, but the true royal house is prospering. </B>(See the article "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Benguiat Bk BT" ><A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Royal Line of Kings True Successors"><U><B>The Royal Line of Kings & True Successors to the Kingdom of Georgia</B></U></A></FONT>")</div> <bR> <div> <B>Other articles in this section:</B></div> <bR> <div> Article #1: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dynastic Law"><U><B><U>Dynastic Law</U></B></U></A></FONT>" by Stephen P. Kerr, LL.M., JD</div> <bR> <div> Article #2: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Imperial Family of Brazil"><U><B><U>The Imperial Family of Brazil</U></B></U></A></FONT>" by Astrid Bodstein</div> <bR> <div> Article #3: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="German Nobility"><U><B><U>German Nobility</U></B></U></A></FONT>" by Michael Waas</div> <bR> <div> Article #4: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nobiliary Law and Succession"><U><B><U>Nobiliary Law and Succession</U></B></U></A></FONT>" by Jan-Olov von Wowern</div> <bR> <div> Article #5: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Royal and Noble Ranks, Styles and Addres"><U><B><U>Royal and Noble Ranks, Styles and Addresses</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #6: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HM Juan Carlos I: The King who Champione"><U><B><U>HM Juan Carlos I: The King who Championed Democracy</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Article #7: "</FONT><A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genealogy"><U><B><U>Genealogy</U></B></U></A>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #8: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Heraldry"><U><B><U>Heraldry</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #9: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id80.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chivalry and Modern Times"><U><B><U>Chivalry and Modern Times</U></B></U></A></FONT>" by D. Edward Goff</div> <bR> <div> Article #10: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id93.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Demoralized Georgia may renew itself by "><U><B><U>Demoralised Georgia may renewed itself by restoring its monarchy</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #11: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Royal Line of Kings True Successors"><U><B><U>The Royal Line of Kings & True Successors of the Kingdom of Georgia</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #12: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Statement Issued by the Chancellery of"><U><B><U>A Statement Issued by the Chancellery of the Royal House of Georgia</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #13: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The King and the Kingdom of BunyoroKitar"><U><B><U>The King and the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #14: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Monarchy Efforts in Serbia"><U><B><U>Monarchy Efforts in Serbia</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #15: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sources of Corruption in Government: The"><U><B><U>Sources of Corruption in Government: The Need for Checks and Balances, Part One</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #16: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id95.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sources of Corruption in Government: The"><U><B><U>Sources of Corruption in Government: The Need for Checks and Balances, Part Two</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #17: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id86.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Virtue, Greatness and Government"><U><B><U>Virtue, Greatness and Government</U></B></U></A></FONT>"  </div> <bR> <div> Article #18: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Model Constitution"><U><B><U>The Model Constitution</U></B></U></A></FONT>"</div> <bR> <div> Article #19: "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Return of Royalty to Indonesia"><U><B><U>The Return of Royalty to Indonesia</U></B></U></A></FONT>" by Gerry van Klinken & Donald P. 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