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All good thoughts.

I agree. Vibes are matriarchal.

2. The fact that he seemed to have showed his evil-ness to the queen when he proposed to her makes me feel like it's less likely. It's possible that she was just horrified at something else about the situation, but I don't know, he's pretty obvious about what he's trying to do and she does make some very despairing expressions. However, this is still manipulation on his part. It's just a different kind. So yeah, your second idea is totally plausible.

3. I kind of don't feel like the third one is super likely to be the plan mostly because of Preminger's fixation on marrying an attractive woman. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that's his number one priority, but one of the reasons he wants to marry Princess Anneliese is because she's pretty and when he decides he's going to try to marry the queen instead, one of his henchman guys says she's a "handsome woman." These could, of course, be completely empty words and have no meaning, but I feel like he wants to marry them partly as a trophy. Also, I'm sure that since he was a) very rich and b) a trusted advisor, he could've claimed the position of king without marrying someone if his plan was just to kill her anyway. Who else would've become the ruler? Julian? King Dominick, in a weird Fortinbras-at-the-end-of-Hamlet situation? Someone could've done it, but he's a pretty likely candidate. Basically, yes, marrying the queen strengthens his position, but I mostly think he wanted to do that to have a sort of trophy. Gross, yeah, but he's not really supposed to be a great person here.

4. ok. my thoughts here are complicated. see below:

First of all, I don't remember if he was always singing when he talked about his plans to become king, but if he was, "king" is just a lot easier to fit into a song than "king consort." So there's that. "King consort" is also just a mouthful generally, so if he doesn't change how he's saying it outside of the song, that could be why. also this is a movie for children and not all children really get the concept of a consort but we are ignoring that

But also, going back to 1, we actually never see the kingdom functioning with a male member of the monarch family. Like, literally, all we've got is the king being a father (i.e having a child and loving her, which I think we only hear about and do not see) and when Preminger almost marries the queen. Neither of these tell us how the king would function if there was one. So maybe it's a male-dominated system. Then again, it's the Barbie world, so. Unlikely.

So returning to the thing about "king consort" being a mouthful: maybe it's just that. Maybe that's how he becomes King Julien.

Then again, maybe I just need to watch the show about him (All Hail King Julien) and figure out what the lore behind the lemur is. That might give me a better point of reference.

if Anneliese from Barbie Princess and the Pauper is a princess and she marries Julian does that mean he'll eventually become King Julian

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