Talk:Jorge Bagration of Mukhrani

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Under the IPs of 74.211.2.151, 207.50.146.169, 217.118.66.79, 188.169.143.17 and 92.54.240.68, Konstantine 001 has edited a series of articles, beginning September 2009, related to competing claims of pretenders to the long-abolished throne of the Kingdom of Georgia, i.e. Line of succession to the Georgian throne, Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, Bagrationi dynasty, George Bagration-Mukhransky and David Bagration of Mukhrani to reflect his view (expounded on various talk pages) that Prince Nugzar of the Gruzinsky branch of the House of Bagration is the "rightful" heir to the defunct throne and Princes George and David (father and son) of the Muchransky branch of Bagrations are "false" pretenders. Further, he edited facts, emphases and tone to uphold Nugzar and denigrate David's claims to such a degree that I and others reverted these edits as violations of NPOV, e.g. here. With a couple of exceptions, these edits were attributed to the authority of (Nuzgar's) Royal Household, but citations were not given, whereas facts and footnotes I had uploaded one year ago were repeatedly altered or deleted, eliciting my reverts. In one of the exceptions he attributes the opinion, "Obviously, HRH Prince Nugzar has the superior lineal right to the throne according to international and dynastic law" to Christopher Buyers who, however, in the cited entry refers to the Muchrany claimant as "Head of the Royal House of Georgia", does not attribute HRH to the Gruzinsky line, and implies that Nugzar Gruzinsky's Bagration ancestry is dubious (elsewhere he openly questions the plausibility of the marriage of Nugzar's alleged paternal grandfather to his grandmother). Buyers also notes that the Mukhransky branch were not merely "noble" subjects in Georgia, but were acknowledged Princes of the Blood Royal. A final exception appears in this diff, attempting to source the pro-Nugzar stance to an article on the website of what looks like a one-man operation calling itself the International Commission on Nobility and Royalty. Article #10 on that site is the first to directly address the Georgian succession. Entitled "Demoralized Georgia may renew itself by restoring its monarchy", written by By Gerald Warner, the article concludes, "Georgia has no military options against Russia, its economy has been devastated, it lacks diplomatic leverage. Yet there is one politico-cultural gesture it could make to renew itself, to reassert its national identity, to unite around a non-partisan symbol, and that is to restore its monarchy. The fact that it was originally abolished by Russia would give added meaning to this act of constitutional renewal. The head of the royal house, the de jure King is His Royal Highness Prince Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, which is obvious from the genealogy and the fact that both he and his ancestors followed the international law by claiming and using their titles throughout all their generations. There were no abdications and no one ever renounced their rights. Hence, their 'de jure' rights are intact. This is the only family that holds the full and complete 'de jure' sovereign right to the throne according to both international and dynastic law." Then follows an odd parenthetical annotation by the publisher, "(The above article on Georgia, with some slight changes, was published by Telegraph.co.uk on August 20, 2008 and can be seen at: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008/08/20/demoralised_georgia_may_renew_itself_by_restoring_its_monarchy." But the actual article found there omits the last 4 sentences above, and the genuine sentence reads, "The acknowledged head of the royal house, the de jure King George XIV, died earlier this year; but his 32-year-old son Prince Davit could be called to the throne of his ancestors as David XIII." What's most annoying about this dishonest effort to sustain and promote a dynastic rift is the fact that the two branches of the dynasty in question went so far as to carry out an arranged marriage in 2009 between Nugzar's elder daughter Princess Anna Gruzinsky and Prince Davit Muchransky to end the family feud and offer their nation another option for political healing. FactStraight (talk) 08:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)