Should we laugh on them while crying or should we cry on them while laughing? Hungarian so-called “kings” since transition
Should we laugh on them while crying or should we cry on them while laughing? Hungarian so-called “kings” since transition

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I examine a totally marginal and peculiar political force in present-day Hungary, the lives, and activities of the so-called Hungarian “kings”. Although the republic was proclaimed in Hungary on 1 February 1946 and the last coronation of a king took place in 1916, there were and are candidates since the transition who would like to imagine themselves on the throne of Hungary. They are utterly frivolous, illegitimate, self-styled aspirants, and I leave it to the reader to decide whether they are in fact well-meaning fools, psychiatric cases, phantasms, provocateurs, or impostors. Of course, in my introduction I will briefly review the lives of the real, former kings and heirs to the throne in the region, so I will briefly discuss the Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian, Russian, and Turkish situations. I will then focus only on Hungary and outline the careers and activities of the late “József Daka of the House of Árpád”, “His Majesty Levente I Apostolic King of Hungary” and József Borbély “Governor of Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary”, currently “József I Nimrod Bátor Atilla Apostolic Hungarian and World King”, which are full of wonderful and astonishing elements. However, I would like to state emphatically that, the actions of these “kings” fall into the category of political nonsense or a joke, but perhaps a political psychologist or psychiatrist would disagree with me. In Hungary, since the change of regime, there has been no serious monarchist or legitimist force present, and support for the republic among the population and parliamentary parties is unquestionable.

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