British Royal Family

The **British Royal Family** (イギリス王室, *Igirisu Ōshitsu*?) is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In the *Toaru Majutsu no Index* universe, the British Royal Family forms the **Royal Family Faction** (王室派, *Ōshitsu-ha*?), which includes its committee, one of the three primary political factions that control the state of the United Kingdom through the check and balances they maintain with each other.

## Principles

The head of the royal family is of course the ruling monarch, the monarch is also the Supreme Head of the Church of England, as such, the Church answers to the reigning monarch. The only way to join the Royal Family faction was to either be a descendant of the monarch or demonstrate one’s political skill as a close aide of a member. The faction represented the nation, but it had significantly fewer members than the knights or the church.

The family primarily resides in Buckingham Palace, while Windsor Castle is their secondary residence. Buckingham is where meetings with important people from other countries are held, as well as important people from within the country and the other factions. Other bases of the Royal Family are referenced as well.

The family are served by royal maids, known as Maids of Honor. There is also a chamberlain (specifically the Lord Chamberlain) who acts as the senior executive officer of the Royal Household and manages the departments that support the monarch and the royal family.

### Domestic concerns

The Royal Family Faction consists of the Queen and her committee, together with the other two factions, the Knights of England and the Anglican Church. The faction's relationship is supposed to be equal to the other two, in which the Royal Family controlled the Knights of England through direct orders; The Knights of England made use of the Anglicans through political items; and the Anglicans manipulated the British Royal Family through holy advice.

This check and balance allows for none of the factions to act on its own, as the other two factions can create a large commotion to prevent the rogue faction from action on its own. The Royal Family however, had the most weight when it came to decisions on the national level.

The Royal Family’s duty was to intervene and seize control of the parliamentary government in order to take substantial control of the country. While the Knights and the Church worked in the shadows, the royal family had the most power in a public sense because it needed to be able to control the police and the military. They also controlled other related agencies. Despite this, all three factions are required to send to representatives to parliament in order to be able to declare their equivalence, making it seem that the parliament arbitrates between the three factions.

### Foreign relations

Diplomatic relations with other countries is single-handedly done by the Royal Family. Members of the family, such as princesses, would be used for political marriages in order to get the best treaty for England.

### Magic

There are a number of Magic spells and spiritual items associated with the Royal Family. The most prominent of these is the Curtana, the sword which signifies England's ruler. The Royal Family also uses highly protected carriages, known as Traveling Fortresses, and previously used the luxury ship and floating fortress Queen Britannia. The spiritual item Union Jack can only be used by the Royal Family. The ley-line system allowing England to send magic to the Pound Economy nations has a safety mechanism which only allows members of the Royal Family to activate it. A large-scale spell was rumored to exist that would activate if a member of the Royal Family was killed, causing destruction on a national scale in retaliation, though the spell doesn't actually exist.

The Royal Family is a potent magical symbol itself, such that an anonymization barrier placed on the graveyard of Edinburgh Castle was at risk of being broken from pressure when they were to visit the castle.

Besides measures to ensure only the royal family can use certain magic and devices, there exists countermeasures in certain spells to prevent them from being used against the royal family. A notable example is the Knight Leader's Spell of Thororm, which has safeties built into its base theory and foundation to prevent the spell from working against the royal family and weapons related to them to avoid *lèse-majesté*. An oversight involving the historical French connections to the royal family (such as through William I) meant that this also meant the spell was ineffective against Durandal.

## Background

Across the centuries of history associated with British royalty, including the royalty of the United Kingdom's constituent countries prior to the union, there have been multiple houses, dynasties and bloodlines who have held the position of royalty. Some of these are intertwined with other countries, such as with William I, originally a French noble.

Curtana had long been associated with English royalty, being the subject of power or concepts besides its symbolic significance at the time of Edward I's reign, given concerns over interference from the Stone of Scone. However, it would acquire its current immense power in the reign of Henry VIII of the House of Tudor, with his establishment of the Anglican Church and the All-English Continent, resulting in the three faction and four country structure that the United Kingdom has in the present day. Also of the note is the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I.

After the death of Elizabeth I and the end of the House of Tudor at the start of the 17th century, the English crown passed to James VI of Scotland (James I of England), beginning the reign of the **House of Stuart** (スチュアート王朝, *Suchuāto Ōchō*?) over England and Scotland. The House of Stuart would be deposed for a time following the English Civil War, during which the Curtana Original went out of control and was lost, and then finally deposed near the end of the 17th century. After the House of Stuart was overthrown, there were supporters who hoped to restore them to power, known as the Jacobites - the movement later influencing Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and from him, Lola Stuart. The official formation of the United Kingdom (and the "British royal family") would occur at the start of the 18th century.

Queen Victoria was the reigning monarch at the height of the British Empire in the 19th century, with the time of the Golden Dawn occurring at the tail-end of her reign. The exact sequence of British monarchy and royalty, named or not, between her and the current Queen Elizard is currently unknown. Elizard herself has mentioned her father, though it is unknown whether he was the previous king or the prince consort.

## Chronology

### Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### British Royal Family Arc

*Main article: British Royal Family Arc*
The royal family was at the center of events which transpired between October 17th-18th, including the Eurotunnel bombing meeting in Buckingham Palace, and Carissa's subsequent coup d'état attempt with the Knights of England after obtaining the Curtana Original, culminating in the Battle of Buckingham Palace.

### Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Choronzon Arc

*Main article: Choronzon Arc*
During the Crowley's Hazard invasion of the United Kingdom, the royal family (aside from the imprisoned Carissa) was evacuated from London to Edinburgh, prompting pursuit from the recreated Golden Dawn as their arrival at Edinburgh Castle might have broken the anonymization barrier on the grave of the original Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. After Aleister Crowley's thwarted attempt to neutralize Choronzon using her contractor's corpse and the demon's theft of the Honours of Scotland, the royal family were involved in the counter-operations at Edinburgh Castle, followed by the attack on the Queen Britannia in the Irish Sea.

## Known Members

* Her Majesty The Queen Elizard
* Her Royal Highness First Princess Riméa
* Her Royal Highness Second Princess Carissa
* Her Royal Highness Third Princess Villian