Except the Constitution elsewhere forbids anyone with a noble title from holding office
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
True, but the presumptive prince would only then be expected to give up his European titles for an American one.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and
Of course not all European nobilities allow one to give up titles.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl and
Yeah, though that's a constitutional crisis we've avoided, anyway. You might have a younger-son candidate too, who wasn't going to get the title even if he was in a noble house.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and
For the record this sort of thing has happened in the UK fairly often, where an MP has inherited an hereditary title unexpectedly. Since MP’s aren’t allowed to also be Lords.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @mssilverstein and
Yeah the US hasn't actually adopted the harsher version of the Title of Nobility Clause (no US officeholder is allowed to ever have had a title, or must renounce all titles they hold) because it is create unnecessary headaches
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Since officially renouncing a title is a big deal and has all kinds of implications in the countries that give them IIRC the UK doesn't actually have an official procedure for you to unilaterally renounce a knighthood for instance
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
You can have your knighthood officially stripped due to dishonor but if you just personally say "I'm not a knight anymore" you still officially are one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Yeah John Lennon is still listed as an MBE on Wikipedia even though he sent his insignia back as an antiwar protest
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
I think that if, for instance, Sir Patrick Stewart OBE goes through with the process of acquiring US citizenship the protocol would just be to not call him "Sir Patrick" in an "American context" but to continue to do so in a "British context" as long as he's a dual citizen
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The article says that there've been more recent incidents that are much higher stakes than the US-UK thing where the person renounced British knighthood and indeed British citizenship due to siding against Britain in a conflict, but they're still on the official list
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Most notably knights who sided in favor of Indian and Pakistani independence (although I guess India and Pakistan are still in the Commonwealth)
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