List of fictional monarchs of real countries
This is a list of fictional monarchs – characters who appear in fiction as the monarchs of real-life countries. They are listed by country, then according to the production or story in which they appeared.
A
Albania
Hearts of Iron IV- Sophie I, the first female ruler in ''Pax Britannica.''
Australia
- Princess Georgiana of the fictional British royal family, played by Catherine Tate, becomes the monarch after her mother unexpectedly abdicates the Australian throne in favour of her scandalous daughter, hoping to send her as far away from London as possible and make her someone else's problem. The series also features her brother Prince Frederick, the heir apparent to the British throne.
Austria-Hungary
- Otto I
- * CharIes I's son and successor in Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg.
- Crown Prince Leopold is the powerful and influential heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 2006 film The Illusionist, although his father, the Emperor, is the actual reigning monarch.
- Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein – The Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and the hereditary King of Bohemia, he approaches Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson about the retrieval of letters and photographs confirming a liaison with Irene Adler in order to secure his engagement to Clotilde Lothma Von Saxe-Meiningen, a young Scandinavian princess.. There is also mentioned a "King of Scandinavia", a title which never existed in reality as the Scandinavian countries never united into a single realm, though Sweden and Norway were in personal union when the story was written.
B
Brazil
Hearts of Iron IV- Pedro III, the emperor of Brazil in Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, if the monarchy is restored.
- Emperor Dom Pedro III greets the protagonists as they return to Earth after a centuries-long galactic voyage, presenting them with a medal on behalf of the World Government.
- In the novel, Dom Pedro is mentioned as ruler of the Dominion of Braganza, the shadowy post-Fall successor to the Empire of Brazil ruled by a caudillo of the month.
- Dom Pedro IV: In the Southern Victory series, he is the Emperor of Brazil during the First Great War, leading the country into war on the side of Central Powers, cutting off supply lines between the Allied countries of Argentina and Britain and hastening the end of the war. Pedro IV's lineage and the status of slavery in Brazil are not addressed, whilst the continued existence of the Brazilian Empire may be an indirect consequence of Confederate independence.
- In Curious Notions of the Crosstime Traffic series, Imperial Germany is victorious in the 20th century's three world wars, becoming the dominant world power by 2096. This results in Germany restoring the monarchies of numerous countries including Brazil. The unnamed Emperor of Brazil is among the numerous monarchs who attend the Kaiser in Berlin in a glittering annual ceremony broadcast live worldwide.
Bulgaria
- Kyril I, the Tsar of Bulgaria in Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, if the Legion choose to restore the monarchy.
- Nikolay II, a Georgian noble in Pax Britannica.
- During Horst Witzleben's
- Prince Hector, the heir to the Bulgarian throne, attends Balkan peace talks in London but is kidnapped whilst under the protection of Detective Inspector Eli Rabbit and his team. His sister, Princess Juliana, is revealed to be the perpetrator of the kidnapping, wanting the Bulgarian throne for herself. She is also an expert sharpshooter and a member of the secret organization, 'the Vision'.
C
Cambodia
Shadowrun- King Sindarath Sisowath
Canada
- Sybil Pandemick, a neighbour of Sam and Max known for regularly changing careers, briefly reigns as Queen of Canada after answering a job advertisement, continuing to work out of her office in New York City. After magician and Prismatology cult leader Hugh Bliss hypnotizes the world to provide nourishment, Sybil agrees to purchase the United States for one hundred trillion Canadian dollars. The United States is incorporated into Canada and is renamed 'Lower Manitoba'.
China and the Greater Chinese Empire
- Emperor Ping is the imperial ruler of the Tang dynasty and the father of Princes Wan, Jai and Yu, who is in the place of Puyuan and takes Princess Phoenix to be his Empress in the 2006 Chinese film Curse of the Golden Flower.
- An unnamed Emperor is the wise, old ruler of China who makes Fa Mulan an honorary heroine for saving him and his empire from the Huns, in Disney's animated film Mulan and its live-action remake, which based on the legendary folklore about Hua Mulan. His literary basis might be Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei.
- Emperor Han was a Chinese warlord who succeeded in becoming the first Emperor of China. However, his quest for immortality ultimately led to his being cursed and entombed. He was later resurrected but was defeated by Rick O'Connell and his son before he could extend his reach to enslave the Earth.
- In the story "Foreign Devils" by Walter Jon Williams, the Martians of H. G. Wells's War of The Worlds land in Qing China, destroy Beijing and cause widespread death and destruction throughout the country, but the Guangxu Emperor survives by fleeing to a faraway province. In the aftermath the Emperor – whose plans for reform were foiled in actual history – takes advantage of the chaos to stage a bloody coup and establish himself strongly in power. He then the uses the disarray of European powers, still recovering from the Martian invasion of their home territories, to shake off colonial tutlelage and make China a world power 50 years ahead of schedule. China in this history will remain a monarchy, there will be no Chinese Republic nor a Communist Chinese regime, and there will be many more new Emperors from among the progeny of the Guangxu Emperor.
Colombia
- Bolivar III, the emperor of Gran Colombia in Pax Britannica.
Croatia
- Tomislav II is the king of the Italian client state of Croatia in The New Order: Last Days of Europe. He found himself as the head of a nation which he had no love for. He didn't speak a word of Croatian nor had he even ever been there, as he was picked simply because of his noble blood.
- King Boris and Queen of Dalmatia are the former rulers whose royal family are exiled to Great Britain after a communist revolution there, in the season 2 episode "Royal Flush".
D
Denmark
Hamlet by William Shakespeare- King Hamlet was the previous monarch of Denmark and the father of Prince Hamlet. His ghost appears at night and beckons his living son to follow his instructions. He is loosely based on Horwendill, the legendary Jutish chieftain.
- King Claudius poisoned his brother King Hamlet to become the new monarch of Denmark and to be married to Queen Gertrude, Prince Hamlet's mother. He is loosely based on the Jutish chieftain Feng.
- Haraald, the former King of Denmark in the film The Prince & Me and its sequel The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding.
- Edvard III, Haraald's son, becomes the King of Denmark with Paige Morgan as his Queen.
E
Egypt
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse- Sammun-Mak was a powerful telepathic ten-year-old who ruled as Pharaoh after overthrowing the royal family. After his brain is placed in the body of Max, Sammun-Mak uses the Devil's Toybox to create an alternate reality in which he is supreme ruler.
F
Finland
Hearts of Iron IV- King Fredrik Kaarle I
- * In Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he rules the Kingdom of Finland and has significant power compared to other monarchs in the nearby regions.
- King Väinö I
- * Frederick Charles's son and successor in the same mod.
- King Gustav
- * He and the Finnish royal family visit the United Kingdom shortly after King Ralph I's accession to the British throne. The purpose of the visit is to arrange a royal marriage between Ralph and Princess Anna of Finland and to negotiate the purchasing of off-shore drilling equipment following the discovery of oil reserves in the Baltic Sea. The arranged marriage is called off after King Gustav is given photographs showing Ralph with Miranda, an exotic dancer.
France
- Napoleon VI
- * He is mentioned as the Emperor of France reigning sometime around the 1930s with his scandalous personal life being gossiped about in American publications.
- Jean III
- * The king of France in Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg if Action Française takes power.''
- Henry VI
- * Jean III's son and successor in the same mod.
- Franz I
- *A German nobleman who can be put on the French throne in the HOI4 mod, Pax Britannica.
- Minnie Mouse portrays the role of a princess who rules the Kingdom of France but is a victim of being overthrown by the villainous Pete. In real-life such an ascension would be contrary to Salic Law.
- In the episode "The Golden Age of Ballooning", a Scottish conman poses as the French monarch, claiming to be Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Louis XVII.
- Napoleon VI is mentioned as the Emperor of France-outre-mer in an alternate 2025 where, in 1878, a meteor shower known as 'The Fall' rendered the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, forcing European metropolitan governments to evacuate to their colonies. France-outre-mer encompasses French North Africa and reclaimed French, Spanish and Portuguese coastal territories, with its capital based in Algiers. King-Emperor John II arranges the marriage of his daughter Sita to the heir to the throne of France-outre-mer, partly to establish an Anglo-French condominium over the Sultanate of Egypt and re-open the Suez Canal. Although the regnal name was claimed by Louis, Prince Napoléon, if he is based on a real person, the date would indicate this is either Charles, Prince Napoléon or Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon.
- Pippin Arnulf Héristal, a descendant of Charlemagne, is crowned as Pippin IV to provoke a rebellion.
- Charles XI
- * After France's defeat during the First Great War, he becomes King of France between the late 1920s and 1930 after Action Française takes control of the country, ending the French Third Republic, and restores the monarchy. He serves as the King of France for fourteen years and leads his country into another war with the German Empire after the new Kaiser Wilhelm III refuses to return Alsace-Lorraine to France. He is later killed in 1944 when Germany destroys most of Paris with an atomic bomb.
- * He might be a fictional son of the Orléanist pretender Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans who was a claimant to the French throne as Philip VIII or the Legitimist pretender Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, who used Charles XII as a claimed regnal name due to counting his brother as the real Charles XI. Turtledove clarified that Charles XI was not Charles Maurras, the founder and leader of Action Française.
- Louis XIX
- * Following Charles XI's death, he is succeeded by Louis XIX. While he initially announced France's intention to continue to fight Germany, he ultimately accepts capitulation. There is no equivalent son of Alfonso Carlos or grandson of Prince Philippe, who both died childless.
- Napoleon VI is the French Emperor in 1973 in an alternate timeline where Napoleon I imposed a crushing defeat on Britain in 1807.
- François IV is mentioned as being the King of the Holy Alliance, a union of the French and Spanish Empires and the British Empire's main rival.
- Napoleon V is the Emperor of the French in an alternate universe in which New York City was seemingly under Bonpartist occupation enforced by looting Spanish soldiers.
- Jean XXIII is mentioned as the King of France in an alternate reality where Islamic North Africa and the Middle East constituted the modern, liberal First World, and Europe was a backward hotspot of Christian fundamentalist terrorism. Reigning during the fifteenth century AH, his son the Dauphin is hospitalized during an Aquinist attack on the funeral of Grand Duke Cosimo III of Italy.