History
The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League is an anti-communist organization that was established in 1993 by its first President Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Chánh, a member of the Vietnamese royal family who fled from Vietnam for political reasons after 1975. The children of Vietnam's last ruling monarch, Emperor Bảo Đại, now living in Europe have not offered their support to his political endeavors.
In 1997, Emperor Bảo Đại died, and his son Crown Prince Bảo Long inherited the position of head of the Nguyễn Dynasty. He remained out of politics and lived quietly in Paris, France until his death on 28 July 2007 and was succeeded as Head of the Imperial House by his brother, Prince Bảo Thang.
Although the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League wishes to restore the Nguyễn Dynasty to the throne under a constitutional monarchy, as in Cambodia and Thailand, neither the late Crown Prince Bảo Long nor his brother Prince Bảo Thang supports their political aspirations.
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