House of Bonnecelli

The House of Bonnecelli is the royal house of the United Kingdom of Cattala. It was founded by Lord Chancellor Harrison by parliamentary proclamation on the 15 July 1949, when the temporary government declared the restoration of the monarchy and the formation of the House of Bonnecelli after the 1949 Cattalian Referendum confirmed that the public wished for the country to return to being a kingdom. King Marco VI ascended to the throne on the 11 May 1951 and became the first native monarch from outside of the House of Celestine since the country unified more than 700 years earlier. Currently, the most prominent member of the House of Bonnecelli is Queen Alexandra V, the reigning monarch of Cattala.

Ancestry and Foundation
The House of Bonnecelli claims the crown of Cattala through its maternal lineage to the deceased House of Celestine. Princess Cornelia Celestine married the highborn Mortimer Bonnecelli, a wealthy landowner, industrialist and Lord of Cape Point, in 1838. Cornelia was the third child of King Harold, who was ousted from the throne by the British navy in 1814, and her grandson Marco Bonnecelli was the only direct heir to the crown of Cattala after World War Two, as the descendants of Cornelia's brother had been killed by the Italian fascists in 1940 and her sister's lineage ended with her unmarried son in 1847.