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Decolonization edit
By this qualification, aren't all the Commonwealth Realms and the UK in personal union under their king? ISTM Canada should be listed under the Americas.Pithecanthropus4152 (talk) 21:28, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
dissolutions edit
- [Personal unions] can also be codified (i.e., the constitutions of the states clearly express that they shall share the same person as head of state) or non-codified, in which case they can easily be broken (e.g., by the death of the monarch when the two states have different succession laws).
Has a union of monarchies ever been dissolved by the extinction of descendants of the marriage that created it? —Tamfang (talk) 21:51, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
- One example that comes to mind is List of Navarrese monarchs#House of Capet, 1284–1349. Keriluamox (talk) 09:25, 18 July 2023 (UTC)