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: How were relations between the children of the
: Grand Duchess Charlotte and their cousins --
: specifically, the children of their aunt
: Antonia (who married Crown Prince Rupprecht
: of Bavaria)? I can't but feel for the
: latter: although Germans, they were made to
: pay for their parents' anti-Nazi politics
: (so was the family of Albrecht, Rupprecht's
: son from his first marriage). To think that
: they were even incarcerated in concentration
: camps ...
:
: By contrast, their Luxembourg cousins
: certainly had it nice during World War II --
: living in relative ease, comfort, and luxury
: in exile. Yet, at the same time, they were
: lauded for their heroism in leading the
: Nazi-resistance movement from abroad --
: their mother even becoming a legend for
: broadcasting inspirational messages via
: radio. In partial fairness to them, they
: probably had no choice: as with the Dutch
: royal family, it was either flee or
: surrender to the invading Germans.
:
The Luxembourg royal family had little option but to flee. The Grand Duchess Charlotte would have been very mindful of the fate of her elder sister, who was vilified for her her alleged pro German sympathies in the first World War. Charlotte's nephew, Prince Anselm of Thurn & Taxis was killed in 1944, so the war did hit the grand ducal family. Had Charlotte remained in Luxembourg she would have been compromised like Marie Adelaide & King Leopold in Belgium. I'm not sure they lived in luxury. Also of course both Felix & Jean served with the Allied forces.
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