Royal trouble, climate catastrophe and international conflict – Nostradamus’ 2024 predictions revealed

Prince Harry could become King of England in 2024 according to the writings of history’s most notorious seer – the 16th century French astrologer Nostradamus.

His infamous work Les Propheties (The Prophecies), published in 1555, predicts the future across 942 quatrains – poetic verses.

Some attribute this text with predicting 9/11, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the development of Artificial Intelligence.

Described as the ‘Prophet of Doom’, the apothecary was inspired by biblical texts and his own experiences of plague, with predictions often focusing on famine and sorrow. 

Find out what we have in store for 2024 according to Nostradamus below. 

The world is facing dangerous conflict and a new King in 2024 – at least according to the predictions of 16th century astrologer Nostradamus (pictured)

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met last month in an attempt to thaw tensions between their countries, but Nostradamus predicted conflict with a ‘Red adversary’

What did Nostradamus predict for 2024?

Confrontation with China

Joe Biden tried to thaw relations with China when he and Xi Jinping met in November 2023 to discuss Taiwan, fentanyl and climate change.

However, Nostradamus’ predictions suggest it could have all been in vain.

In a verse which begins by describing ‘combat and naval battle’, he writes of how a ‘Red adversary will become pale with fear, putting the great Ocean in dread.’

The ‘Red adversary’ could refer to China, given the colour of their flag, and the references to naval conflict are eerie in light of escalating discussion about the state of Taiwan – with the island located at the junction of the East and South China Seas. 

And this is certainly a conflict to avoid if China is the adversary in question, with Beijing boasting the largest navy on the planet.

The famous seer also predicted the ‘King of the Isles’ being ‘driven out by force’ to be replaced by ‘one who will have no mark of a king’, which author Mario Reading interpreted as Prince Harry replacing King Charles on the throne

Royal turmoil 

British author and Nostradamus commentator Mario Reading has spoken previously of how the French astrologer – whose full name was Michel de Nostredame – perhaps foresaw the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

And the seer could be in for another royal reckoning, with one of his predictions talking of the ‘King of the Isles’, who has had a controversial divorce being ‘driven out by force’. 

He is then replaced by ‘one who will have no mark of a king’.

In Reading’s analysis, this points to King Charles III abdicating due to ‘persistent attacks on both himself and his second wife’, and Harry replacing him, rather than William or any of his children, as the man who has ‘no mark of a king’.

Nostradamus predicts in one of his quatrains that ‘dry earth will grow more parched’, with wildfires already massively increasing in the last year

Climate Catastrophe

With 2024 coming in off the back of the COP28 summit, this prediction from Nostradamus could ride on December’s events in Dubai which are expected to break records for carbon emissions – not a great sign.

Climate chaos has already begun with cases of wildfires, flooding and drought increasing around the globe in recent years, especially in 2023.

But what’s interesting is how he seems to have foreseen these apocalyptic events, all those centuries ago.

He predicts: ‘The dry earth will grow more parched, and there will be great floods when it is seen.’ 

Elsewhere, he warns of storms leading to starvation. ‘Very great famine through pestiferous wave,’ he wrote. 

Pope Francis, currently in his mid-80s and having suffered health problems in recent times, could be moving on

A new Pope 

The King is not the only major figure in line for replacement according to Les Propheties.

Pope Francis, currently in his mid-80s and having suffered health problems in recent times, could be moving on. 

One passage reads: ‘Through the death of a very old Pontiff, A Roman of good age will be elected, Of him it will be said that he weakens his see, But long will he sit and in biting activity.’

What did Nostradamus get right about 2023?

One of Nostradamus’ passages could be applied to Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has caused the price of wheat to skyrocket. Pictured: A rocket landed in a wheat field in March 2023 in Mykolaiv, Ukraine

One of the prophesies which could be applied both to 2022 and 2023 relates to the increasing cost of living since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

‘So high will the bushel of wheat rise,’ Nostradamus wrote, ‘That man will be eating his fellow man.’

Since February 2022, wheat prices rose to even higher levels than those seen after the financial crash in the late 2000s, and it is only just beginning to fall back to pre-war levels now.

And while cannibalism has not taken hold, a metaphorical interpretation could liken this to the bloodshed of the very same war.