Just out of curiosity, I did an experiment by going onto Wikipedia where I proceeded to enter the name of any king that came to mind. Then I would read a little bit of what was on that page, then I would randomly pick another name that was on the page and I would click on it. This would open up another page, a would read a little more than I would randomly click on a name. I did this maybe 8 or 9 times and I noticed that these rulers and nobles seemed to have a habit of fighting and often assassinating each other. They often even killed their own relatives. My family may have been peasants but at least we didn’t kill our own relatives.
Power corrupts—absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Do some work on ancestry.com. If you had any English ancestors, you DID descend from royalty. I found out we did and that 90% of English people do.
In other words, if there are preordained lines of succession to power in the USA, the newspapers don't talk about it. Otherwise, just as in days of old, we'd have a better idea of who needed to do what to whom, to move up the ladder. As it is, all we have are our conspiracy theory's.