| rdfs:comment | - The House is also officially recognized and regarded by the Jacobites as the rightful successors to the throne of the United Kingdom (including England, Scotland, Ireland, and erroneously, the Wales) The claims to the first four titles were made by Smith I by royal edict on March 18, 1859 and remain sanctioned to the present-day with current head Angelina II holding the title of Queen of Great Britain respectively, and other associated titles, although these are purely nominal. The original claim to the French throne was dropped although not formally relinquished in 1919 by King Lewis I. For a time, the House of Columbia was also the ruling house of the Great Han Empire, ruling the nation during the Han suzerainty period (1902-1945), having removed the Yi dynasty from power. After Sierra r
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| abstract | - The House is also officially recognized and regarded by the Jacobites as the rightful successors to the throne of the United Kingdom (including England, Scotland, Ireland, and erroneously, the Wales) The claims to the first four titles were made by Smith I by royal edict on March 18, 1859 and remain sanctioned to the present-day with current head Angelina II holding the title of Queen of Great Britain respectively, and other associated titles, although these are purely nominal. The original claim to the French throne was dropped although not formally relinquished in 1919 by King Lewis I. For a time, the House of Columbia was also the ruling house of the Great Han Empire, ruling the nation during the Han suzerainty period (1902-1945), having removed the Yi dynasty from power. After Sierra recognized Hani's independence in 1945, the House of Columbia continued to rule the Han islands of Palawan and Cuyo until its eventual retrocession to Hani in 1995. The House of Columbia has not revived a state-sponsored Anglican Church or a religious equivalent in Sierra for both legal and personal reasons (the separation of church and state embodied in the Sierran constitution strictly prohibits such establishment and the House members has traditionally been privately affiliated with the Catholic Church in a religiously diverse nation. Despite this, the House monarchs have all used the traditional British title of Defender of the Faith in their styles, with the rationale of being in the defense of all faiths, and even the lack thereof. In addition, Columbia has historically claimed the additional throne to France, a claim initially adopted by James VI and I, although this claim has since officially been dropped, by Lewis I in 1902. The House of Columbia's claims are unrecognized by the government of United Kingdom, which removed the heirs of James II from the line of succession through the Bill of Rights 1689, and asserted a new line of succession with the Hanovers through the Act of Settlement 1701. The House of Columbia was formed in response to the selection of founder Smith I as the first king of the new monarchy established in Sierra under the 1858 Constitution. The California Republic, the predecessor state of Sierra, had gained its independence from Mexico in 1848 through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the Mexican-American War, but after ten years, was considered a bureaucratic disaster. In need for a more efficient and stable government, Californian delegates were called to draft a entirely new constitution. The delegation comprised primarily of two factions: republicans and royalists, the former that demanded an American-styled republic and the other a monarchy. Through compromise, it was agreed that the new constitution would incorporate elements of both a monarchy and a democratic republic, with a weak, figurehead monarchy and an American-styled civil government. Convention president Smith Charles Miller, a man who had worked extensively in the Californian government and had ancestral origins to the House of Stuarts, was chosen to lead the nation as its king. Acceding, Smith was crowned King Smith I, and consequently became the head of the newly formed House of Columbia. Today, the House of Columbia is composed of 5 members in the Royal Family which includes the King and Queen and their children; 11 members in the Extended Court; and hundreds more relatives without a formal title or distinction proscribed. The official motto of the House is Renatus et redemit or "Redeemed and reborn" in Latin–a reference to the House's connection to the fallen House of Stuart.
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