🚀 go-pugleaf

One evil thought I had, tipped off by someone's comment about elective 
monarchies where the king's eldest son had the "inside track":

Designate a group of Electors for a kingdom. The Electors choose the king,
but the winner of Crown Tourney gets a block of votes automatically (say,
with nine electors, there are fifteen votes altogether; winner of Crown gets
six for winning). This way, if the selection process turns up a truly bad 
potential royal couple, they can be prevented from ruling. In the example
above, at least eight of the nine Electors would have to be opposed.

The Electors could be chosen from three groups, like the Holy Roman Empire's
electors were (maybe the principals of the three Peerage orders, three 
former rulers, and three territorial Barons/Baronesses?). Their names and 
decisions would be public knowledge, as a hedge against pettiness; they 
had best be prepared to face the consequences of their votes.

Then again, I'm not sure that the political repercussions would be worth 
saving the damage that a bad potential couple could cause.

Alison MacDermot