II.   Sovereign

Royal Blood Right is a form of Sovereign Claim, whereby one claims noble birthright and therefore eligible to be Sovereign.

The word “royal” originates from the 1st Millenium BCE ancient Irish ríal from rí meaning “king” and al meaning “a litter, brood, progeny; the young of a bird or animal”. Hence the true etymology of royal (ríal) is the “progeny of a king”.

As the literal and true meaning of “Royal” is to be the progeny of a King or Queen, the term has been further qualified to mean progeny of the “Royal Family” and “Imperial Family”, thereby enabling the exclusion of certain offspring who may be politically deemed “illegitimate” by birth, even though they carry Royal Blood.

In most societies that retain monarchies, possessing “Royal Blood” as a claimed Right does not in itself bestow an automatic birthright to be Sovereign, because of successive historic laws that require a suitable candidate to not only possess “Royal Blood” but be regarded as a legitimate and approved member of the “Royal Family”.

In accordance with these Canons, it is forbidden to select leaders and rulers through the Claim of Royal Blood Right.