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> There is a glaring problem with his plan. His plan involves gaining power to the throne by marrying and murdering the rightful heir. However, monarchies determine who rule based on blood relatives. On the Norwegian royal court website family tree, the only people eligible for the crown were direct descendants. If both sisters die, then the heir to the throne is most likely a distant cousin way before Prince Hans could claim the throne.

This person is overthinking this Disney movie more than a little bit.

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Norway also didn't exist as an independent kingdom until 1905 (instead being ruled by the king of Sweden) so using the current rules of succession don't make much sense. Actually if the royal family in one of the Scandinavian countries died out, it would be more than likely a king or prince from another Scandinavian country that's next in line for succession (like Prince Carl of Denmark became the Norwegian king Haakon VII in 1905), so pretty much what Hans was planning.

Although a Norwegian, I had to look this up. The line of succession in Norway is limited to the descendants of the living king, so as a result the list is fairly short with just 7 eligible candidates.

If all those were to die, the Norwegian parliament would (in theory) select a new king or queen. In practice though, I suspect that we'd simply end the monarchy.

This is unlike other monarchies where the line of succession is a bit larger. According to Wikipedia, the line of succession in the UK has more than 5000 entries. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_British_thro...

Norway became a unified independent Kingdom in 872 and entered a union with Sweden and Denmark in 1397. Sweden left the union in 1523, leaving Norway in union with Denmark until 1814 when Norway was transferred to a union with Sweden as a part of the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. Norway regained full independence in 1905.

I am not sure which year Frozen is supposed to be set in, but I would assume either before or just after the Unification in 872.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Norway

>I am not sure which year Frozen is supposed to be set in, but I would assume either before or just after the Unification in 872.

Yeah no. Frozen was set in the mid 19th century in terms of technology and fashion, not in the early Viking Age.

Not only that, but in the movie when Hans tells everyone that Anna was dead but they had time to say their vows they seemed to accept his claim without questioning right of succession.

The troll theory presented is pretty fun, and after 100+ viewings I'm all for new ways of looking at the movie, but building it off a real-world fact that is barely relevant and easily explained away is tenuous.

They can't possibly believe their argument right, it's just a joke? Arendelle isn't a real kingdom. You can't cite the real world except as a joke.

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