* Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange ( born 1967 ), the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus and heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Banquo's loyalty to Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, after Duncan's death makes him a passive accomplice in the coup: Malcolm, as Prince of Cumberland, is the rightful heir to the throne and Macbeth a usurper.

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

The main ' Colonna di Paliano ' family is represented today by Prince Marcantonio Colonna di Paliano, Prince and Duke of Paliano ( b. 1948 ), whose heir is Giovanni Andrea Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1975 ), and by Don Prospero Colonna di Paliano, Prince of Avella ( b. 1956 ), whose heir is Filippo Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1995 ).

The ' Colonna di Stigliano ' line is represented by Prospero Colonna di Stigliano, Prince of Stigliano ( b. 1938 ), whose heir is his nephew Stefano Colonna di Stigliano ( b. 1975 ).

At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.

At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

In 1371, by Imperial Proclamation, he received the rank of shinnō ( 親王 ), or Imperial Prince ( and potential heir ).

Along with his younger brother, Prince Woke, Oyoke was raised to greater prominence when Emperor Seinei died without an heir.

In his final moments, Hamlet names Prince Fortinbras of Norway as the probable heir to the throne, since the Danish kingship is an elected position, with the country's nobles having the final say.

This sought to bar Prince Henry from both thrones by stipulating that if either King William or Duke Robert died without an heir, the two dominions of their father would be reunited under the surviving brother.

* 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.

Jahangir soon after had to fend off his son, Prince Khusrau Mirza, when he attempted to claim the throne based on Akbar's will to become his next heir.

Baldwin was married to the Armenian noblewoman Morphia of Melitene, and had four daughters: Hodierna and Alice, who married into the families of the Count of Tripoli and Prince of Antioch ; Ioveta, who became an influential abbess ; and the eldest, Melisende, who was his heir and succeeded him upon his death in 1131, with her husband Fulk V of Anjou as king-consort.

Prince Fumimaro Konoe was born into the ancient Fujiwara clan, and was the heir of the princely Konoe family in Tokyo.

Sanjō's eldest son, Prince Atsuakira, had been the officially designated heir, but pressure from Michinaga forced the young prince to abandon his position.

In 1886 Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, acquired the manor and transformed it into a hunting lodge.

He was succeeded by Virginio, whose heir Paolo Giordano II married the princess of Piombino and was created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.

In fact, Despot was an Imperial title, first used under Manuel I Komnenos ( 1143 – 1180 ) who created it for his appointed heir Alexius-Béla.

During his Danube sojourn ( Drinkwater suggests in 255 or 256 ) he proclaimed his elder son Valerian II Caesar and thus official heir to himself and Valerian I ; the boy probably now joined Gallienus on campaign and when Gallienus moved west to the Rhine provinces in 257 remained behind on the Danube as the personification of Imperial authority.

When King Conrad III died without adult heir in 1152, Frederick also succeeded him, taking both German royal and Imperial titles.

* Also in the German Empire, the other ' heir ' to the Holy Roman empire, the emperor and empress, would be addressed as Imperial and Royal Majesty because of their ruling over the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire.

The most important action Otto II took at the assembly, however, was to secure the " election " of his son Otto III, who was then only three years old, as King of Germany and heir apparent to the Imperial throne.

It is possible that the conditions in southern Italy following the defeat required Otto II to act quickly in designating an Imperial heir to ensure connivence in the Empire's future.

On 19 November 1922, Mehmed's first cousin and heir Abdülmecid Efendi was elected Caliph, becoming the new head of the Imperial House of Osman as Abdülmecid II before the Caliphate was abolished in 1924.

When Louis Napoleon became emperor as Napoleon III, Jérôme was recognized as the heir presumptive to the throne until the birth of the Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial.

It may be thus seen as the beginning of Austrian history, and in 1919 there was the concrete idea aired by Heinrich Lammasch, who had been Imperial Austria's last prime minister, to give the young republic the name of " Norische Republik " or " Noric Republic ", because the ancient borders were similar to those of the new state which, at that time, did not wish to be considered the heir of the Habsburg monarchy but an independent, neutral and peaceful state.

From about 1266, he grew up at the residence of Duke Louis II of Bavaria together with his friend Conradin of Swabia, the son of King Conrad IV of Germany and heir to the Imperial Hohenstaufen dynasty.

Manuel also made it clear that the branches of the Portuguese monarchy ( including the Imperial family of Brazil, the Braganza-Orleans, and the descendants of the Duke of Loulé ) ended with the last direct male heir to the House of Braganza.

The death of the prince imperial in 1879 put an end to the serious chances of the Bonapartists, although Rouher sought to secure the recognition of Prince Napoleon, son of the ex-king Jerome, as heir to the Imperial honours.

* 1071 – 1185 Imperial Prince Sanehito ( 実仁親王 ) – Shirakawa's would-be heir

Throngs before the Tokyo Imperial Palace | Imperial Palace in Japan awaiting the appearance of the Crown Prince Hirohito for the recent proclamation of his official recognition as the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne | Japanese Imperial Throne – New York Times, 1916.

In 1218, she was sent by Regent Yoshitoki to ask Cloistered Emperor Go-Toba if Shogun Sanetomo could adopt one of his sons, such as Imperial Prince Nagahito as an heir.

Throngs before the Tokyo Imperial Palace | Imperial Palace in Japan awaiting the appearance of the Crown Prince Hirohito for the recent proclamation of his official recognition as the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne | Japanese Imperial Throne -- New York Times, 1916.

In case the heir is a grandson, the title Huang Taisun ( 皇太孫 ), Kōtaison, Hwangtaeson ( 황태손 ), and Hoàng Thái Tôn, literally " Great Imperial Grandson ", are used

In this account, the act could not be performed except by " the true king ," meaning the divinely appointed king or true heir of Uther Pendragon.

He was appointed as his father's heir apparent in 2000.

Following Stephen's death, his nephew Peter Urseolo ( his appointed heir ) and his brother-in-law Samuel Aba contended for the crown.

King Louis named him his heir and appointed him to succeed him as King of Hungary.

* December 6 – Five-year-old Erik Magnusson, the eldest son of king Magnus IV of Sweden, is appointed heir to the Swedish throne, even though Sweden, at this time, is an elective monarchy.

Although Sweden is an elective monarchy at this time, Birger has been appointed heir to the throne already in 1284.

English kings appointed a Council of Wales, sometimes presided over by the heir to the throne.

Stephen of Blois rushed to England upon learning of Henry's death and moved quickly to seize the crown from the appointed heir.

Immediately after this Władysław ( after an unsuccessfully retaliatory expedition against Silesia and forced to recognized Zbigniew as the legitimate heir ) appointed his sons as commanders of the army which was formed in order to recapture Gdansk Pomerania.

After his father's death, the child Charles inherited the claim to Hungary, but his grandfather, King Charles II of Naples appointed his younger son ( Charles ' paternal uncle ), Robert to his heir in the Kingdom of Naples on 13 February 1296.

John William Friso was a great-grandson of Frederick Henry and was appointed heir in William III's will.

Just before his death in 1137, William X, Duke of Aquitaine appointed Louis guardian of his daughter and heir, the young Eleanor of Aquitaine, and expressed his wish for her to marry Louis ' son.

This life at the meeting point of university and society, arts and philosophy was possible because he had been the heir to a fortune from his appointed guardian.

Although Baldwin seems to have held no ill-will towards his sister, Baldwin appointed his 5-year-old nephew Baldwin of Montferrat as his heir and successor, with the support of Agnes and her husband Reginald of Sidon, Raymond, and many of the other barons, excluding Sibylla from the succession.

William first met Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1747, and 2 years later appointed him field marshal of the Dutch States Army, which later led to his being one of the regents to William's heir.

For example, the late Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah appointed his cousin, Sheikh Sheikh Saad, as heir apparent.

This table lists all heads of these houses, as well as some that were appointed heir but died before they became head of the house.

Having gained the support of other senior retainers, including Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda Tsuneoki, Sanpōshi was named heir and Hideyoshi appointed co-guardian.

Upon the death of Chögyam Trungpa, the leadership of Vajradhatu was first carried on by his American disciple, appointed regent and Dharma heir, Ösel Tendzin ( Thomas Rich ), and then by Trungpa's eldest son and Shambhala heir, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

He appointed his brother Surasi ( Anuchit Raja ) or Maha Sura Singhanat as the " Front Palace " ( conventional title of the heir ) and his nephew Thong-In or Anurak Devesh as the " Rear Palace ".