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: Princess Katharina of Württemberg, daughter of
: King Wilhelm I. of Württemberg, she married
: her cousin Prince Friedrich of Württemberg
: and her son Wilhelm succeeded his uncle Karl
: as King Wilhelm II.
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: Or as you mention Saxony, the wife of King
: Georg I., Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal was
: a daughter of KIng Maria II. of Portugal.-
: As she died long before her husband became
: King she was a mother of a King but did not
: become Queen herself.
Or Maria Ana's sister, Princess Antonia of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (sister-in-law of Princess Marie of Belgium, Countess of Flanders): daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and mother of King Ferdinand I of Romania.
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: Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
: (who married Prince Philippe of Belgium,
: Count of Flanders) was one of numerous women
: in history who became mothers of kings, but
: not themselves queens. But she was never a
: king's daughter.
:
: What I'm interested in, however, are those
: women who had both fathers and sons who
: became kings, without themselves ever
: becoming queens. Off the top of my head, I
: can name only three: 1) Princess Clémentine
: of Orléans (daughter of Louis-Philippe, King
: of the French, and mother of Ferdinand I,
: Tsar of Bulgaria); 2) Princess Sophie of
: Bavaria (daughter of King Maximilian I of
: Bavaria, and mother of Emperor Franz II
: Joseph of Austria-Hungary); 3) Princess
: Maria Josepha of Saxony (daughter of King
: Georg of Saxony and mother of Emperor Karl
: of Austria-Hungary).
:
: The latter case is full of twists that might
: not have placed her in such a position:
: nobody expected her uncle (King Anton) to
: have a childless marriage). Her father,
: being not much younger, might well have
: predeceased him -- instead of surviving him
: by just two years, during which time he was
: the rightful king of Saxony. Also, nobody
: expected, at the time of her marriage in
: 1886 to Archduke Otto of Austria, for his
: cousin (Archduke Rudolph) to get messed up
: in the Mayerling incident. Or for her
: husband's older brother (Archduke Franz
: Ferdinand) to marry morganatically with
: Countess Sophie Chotek -- much less get
: assassinated at Sarajevo.
:
: Anyhow, I'm sure there are plenty of other
: examples in history. Can anybody name me
: some more?
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