Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25397320-20150518143954/@comment-26368233-20150526150056

One issue with the story line would be trying to use existing monarchies--for example I would guess there would be legal and moral issues trying to say the royal family of England is an "evil" royal family that controls wesen and are trying to get power back.

However, I have a hard time understanding how logically the shows royal families would work if they are were not at one time real kingdoms. There would be the historical real kingdom and a shadow kingdom that controlled the wesen. From the storyline we know that the shows royals financed the crusades. If it were a shadow kingdom it would have had to have a lot of money and power--which I would guess that a real kingdom would eventually want to control, or the shows royals would become greedy and try to control a real kingdom or kingdoms. Either way I would guess there would eventually be some friction between the two. For this and the legal reasons I would guess the shows royals won't get fleshed out significantly; we will always be left to speculate on who and where they are.