monarch-designate

Updated: May 25, 2025

But this amiable pliability, while angering very many of the Orleanists, failed to move the monarch-designate by one hair's-breadth from those principles of divine right against which the more liberal monarchists always protested. "Henri V." soon declared that he would neither accept any condition nor grant a single guarantee as to the character of his future rule.

John Holland Rose - The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)