The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

* Infante Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Fernando Antonio Venancio of Spain, Prince of Asturias ( 1907 – 1938 ), a hemophiliac, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 to marry a commoner, Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, and became Count of Covadonga.

* Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias, figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile.

* Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias, heir-apparent of the throne of Spain 1907-31.

He won the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in 1991, the Prince of Asturias Award in 1992 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Nelson Mandela for his role in the ending of apartheid.

* 1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( d. 1568 )

In 2009 Foster was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in the Arts category.

In 2009 he received the Prince of Asturias Award in the category Arts.

The heir apparent, the Crown Prince, holds the title of Prince of Asturias.

* June 30 – John, Prince of Asturias, Son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile ( d. 1497 )

The story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( 1545 – 1568 ), after his betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was married instead to his father Philip II of Spain as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551-1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois.

She was then married to the Crown Prince of Castile and Aragon John, Prince of Asturias, and after his death to Philibert II of Savoy, after which she undertook the guardianship of her deceased brother Philip's children, and governed Burgundy for the heir, Charles.

* October 4 – John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile ( b. 1478 )

In 1996, he won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation.

* In 1996, Kohl received the Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation

In 2007 Nature ( together with Science magazine ) received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanity.

The birth of a male heir to the Prince of Asturias in Spain is expected to trigger a change in the law of succession from male primogeniture to equal primogeniture.

Some monarchies used a specific princely title for their heirs, such as Prince of Asturias in Spain and Prince of Brazil in Portugal.

Spanish infantes and infantas were usually given a dukedom upon marriage, excepting the heir apparent who is the Prince of Asturias.

* Prince of Asturias Foundation

During the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle bestowed the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma, the first of the three Princes of Dharma, upon the Black-Hat Karmapa.

According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.

But relations between them did turn tense in the year 1617 when Sir Thomas Roe the Elizabethan diplomat warned the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince Shah Jahan, the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out of the province, " then he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas ".

Others, notably former State Secretary Prince Bernard von Bülow, shared Neurath's contempt: " Bülow could not regard as a serious competitor a man who had no formal training in diplomacy, who could not write a report in correct German, who did not listen carefully enough to the remarks of foreign statesmen to interpret them correctly, and who insisted upon seeing possibilities of alliance Britain where none existed ".

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.

* 1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.

The most prominent building in the province honouring this event is the Confederation Centre of the Arts, presented as a gift to Prince Edward Islanders by the 10 provincial governments and the Federal Government upon the centenary of the Charlottetown Conference, where it stands in Charlottetown as a national monument to the " Fathers of Confederation ".

In virtue of the power which has come down to us from St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, we might inflict a punishment upon you, but since you have invoked one on yourself, have that, you and the counsellors you have chosen ... though you have so excellent a high priest, our brother Germanus, whom you ought to have taken into your counsels as father and teacher.

He also bestowed upon their brother, Taddeo Barberini, the honorific title Prince of Palestrina ; Palestrina being the comune owned by the Barberini family.

The winner of the Crown Tournament and his / her Consort are styled " Crown Prince and Princess " and serve an advisory period ( three to six months, depending upon the scheduling of the Crown Tournament ) under the current King and Queen prior to acceding to the throne and ruling in their turn.

Tancredi, Prince of Salerno and father of Ghismonda, slays his daughter's lover, Guiscardo, and sends her his heart in a golden cup: Ghismonda, the daughter, pours upon it a poisonous distillation, which she drinks and dies.

* May 9 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.

* Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius come to Great Moravia upon a request of Prince Rastislav.

The two were to be married upon their majority, and the devolution of Brittany would have been given to the second child to be born, the first becoming Prince of Wales.

Interestingly, William Camden writing in 1607 states in his book Britannia that originally the title " Prince of Wales " was not conferred automatically upon the eldest living son of the King of England because Edward II ( who had been the first English Prince of Wales ) neglected to invest his eldest son, the future Edward III, with that title.

But King Edward the Second conferred not upon his sonne Edward the title of Prince of Wales, but onely the name of Earle of Chester and of Flint, so farre as ever I could learne out of the Records, and by that title summoned him to Parliament, being then nine yeres old.

King Edward the Third first created his eldest sonne Edward surnamed the Blacke Prince, the Mirour of Chivalrie ( being then Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester ), Prince of Wales by solemne investure, with a cap of estate and Coronet set on his head, a gold ring put upon his finger, and a silver vierge delivered into his hand, with the assent of Parliament.

Originally, younger sons of the Sovereign were not styled Princes ( except the Prince of Wales ); thus, to indicate their exalted rank, peerage dignities were conferred upon them.

The first of these was Prince Alexander of Battenberg who, in 1877, was agreed upon by the Great Powers as the best candidate for the new throne of Bulgaria.

For example, Prince William and his wife Catherine Middleton, a commoner, became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge upon their marriage on 29 April 2011.

He predeceased his father George II, however, and upon the latter's death on 25 October 1760, the throne passed to Prince Frederick's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, who reigned as King George III from 1760 until 1820.

They were finally secularised in the 1803 German Mediatisation upon the territorial losses to France in the Treaty of Lunéville, except for the Mainz prince-archbishop and German archchancellor Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, who continued to rule as Prince of Aschaffenburg and Regensburg.