Fictional Monarchies
Rather than create a fictional country for the King in his story, as in the Ruritanian tales, Conan Doyle chose to place a fictional dynasty in a real country. The Kingdom of Bohemia was at the time of writing a possession of the House of Habsburg and had no independent monarchs of its own. Similarly, there had never been a Kingdom of Scandinavia.
Read more about this topic: A Scandal In Bohemia
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