20 comments

  • acheron 35 minutes ago
  • hmokiguess 20 minutes ago

    So he knew when he turned 16 but only got recognized 10 years later. I hope when he was a teenager he got into some friendly brawl and said "Shut up my Dad is the King." and got laughed on and now the other person is seeing the news.

    • layman51 8 minutes ago

      But it’s funny because this is a common childhood fantasy. Like maybe as a five year old, you get into a conflict with your parents and you imagine that your dad is actually not really your dad, but is actually some other outstanding member of the community. There was a similar plot point in the Joker (2019) movie too.

  • NDlurker 9 minutes ago

    Saxe-Coburg? Are these guys cousins to the British royal family? Time to do some googling

  • stephbook 27 minutes ago

    > “If I were to sacrifice [my] family name, it would be a betrayal of everything my mother has done for me.”

    Only a man could entertain this thought.

  • grubbs 21 minutes ago

    Damn! All those Hallmark movies just became documentaries!

  • ninjagoo an hour ago

    So no merit, effort or capability-based gains; instead a straight title, prestige, wealth and inheritance gain through DNA, over which no offspring has any control.

    • michaeljx an hour ago

      Like the good nepotistic society we are

      • zdragnar an hour ago

        I'm struggling to understand what the desirable alternative is here. Children shouldn't be recognized by their patients? Or only lower class parents should have the burden of sharing their income with their children?

        • madaxe_again 43 minutes ago

          All children should be gestated in womb-bladders in state hatcheries, and raised to maturity by the state. Knowing or wanting to know your parents should be considered a deviancy, a perversion.

          Oh wait that’s Brave New World. Or The Naked Sun, depending on your preferred flavour of SF nightmare.

          • alberto-m 37 minutes ago

            Or Plato's Republic, if one prefers older books.

    • bell-cot 35 minutes ago

      Are you advocating for all children being anonymized and raised in orphanages? Or a 100% inheritance tax? Or just expressing disappointment at your own relative lack of wealthy & famous recent ancestors?

      • short_sells_poo 30 minutes ago

        100% inheritance tax would be ideal, but it's never going to happen in practice.

        • afh1 22 minutes ago

          Remove the greatest incentive for long term investment, what could go wrong?

    • skrebbel 44 minutes ago

      Wealth gain? How?

  • xz18r an hour ago

    I'm Belgian, this has been public knowledge since the guy was born. At least it was dealt with a lot more amicably than the other case (Delphine Boël being the child of King (then Prince) Albert II), which was decades of bad lying and denial.

  • johnbarron 30 minutes ago

    I love Hereditary Dentists....

  • hrdwdmrbl 36 minutes ago

    I'm king of the world. DM me if you want a title.

    • hmokiguess 17 minutes ago

      which world though

    • johnbarron 25 minutes ago

      I am also Sovereign. Will do it for half the price this one is asking for.