Aeneas was a member of the royal line at Troy and cousin of Hector.
Macbeth was of the House of Loarn, a one-time royal line that continued to rule in Moray.
In 771 bce the Zhou royal line was again broken when Youwang was killed by invading barbarians.
He was the son of Gorm the Old, the first significant figure in a new royal line centred at Jelling (North Jutland).
The assassin, a fanatic Bonapartist, proudly announced his purpose: to extinguish the royal line by destroying the last Bourbon still young enough to produce a male heir.
The English reverted to their old royal line in 1042, and Denmark passed to Sweyn II, son of Earl Ulf and Estrid.
Several royal line descents are traceable to the 6th century, as, in England, is the tree of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten.
Nizam wants to gain control of the weapon: if he can send life back to an earlier period, he can eliminate his brother's royal line and become king.
Apart from the French royal line, there is the House of Grimaldi, which serves as something of a surrogate royal family in France.
(With the history plays that concentrate in detail on specific periods in the progression of the British royal line, there isn't always as much innovation).
This is clear in the work of the exhibition's two star figures, both descendants of the Ming royal line, both Buddhist monks, both singular, snappish personalities.
