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Going the other way, the monarchs of England also claimed the French throne until 1802: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_claims_to_the_French_throne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_claims_to_the_French_t... Until 1558 they did have an exclave inside France on the continent (the city of Calais), so the claim had some remote connection to reality.