Posted by Johan
on 18/10/2009, 12:32:45, in reply to "Re: Not Margriet but Michiko..."
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Princess Marianne did not marry her coachman. Like her he was married when their affair started but unlike her husband his wife did not grant him a divorce.
As i said there are plenty examples of commoners marrying royalty throughout the centuries. Think of Peter the Great's second wife and the (legal) ancestress of the Romanov dynasty. There is no way to make Catherine I a born Royal or even a nobleman's daughter. Yet her descendants include many present day royals among them the Queens of the Netherlands and Denmark, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Kent and his siblings.
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: Perhaps I should have limited/restricted my
: general question to royal-commoner marriages
: in the sense of commoner =
: non-noble/non-gentry/not belonging to a peer
: of the realm family.
: I guess that the odd ladies in waiting whom
: a royal married was mostly of noble
: blood/peer of the realm families too.
: Of we had a princess marrying her
: carriagedriver too...
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