She was a rather staunch Protestant before WWI. Counting her ancestors Willem the Silent and his fourth father-in-law Gaspard de Coligny as two of her main inspirations and examples.
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: The Protestant Duke Paul of
: Mecklenburg-Schwerin, half-brother of Prince
: Hendrik of the Netherlands, married the
: Catholic Princess Marie of Windisch-Grätz
: and joined later in life her faith and I
: believe their children, at least the girls,
: were raised in the mother's faith. One of
: the girls, Duchess Marie Antoinette was once
: considered as a potential bride for King
: Alfonso XIII of Spain (a sort of German
: candidate from Emperor Wilhelm II).
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: As I understand, Germany had five kingdoms
: before World War I. Only one of them
: (Bavaria) was solidly Catholic -- in terms
: of sovereigns and subjects. Hanover and
: Prussia were solidly Protestants. But
: Saxony and Württemberg were mixed: I believe
: the subjects in both were Protestants, but
: the sovereigns were Catholics -- thanks to a
: change of hands through intermarriages. Is
: this true?
:
: As for the smaller German states that were
: Catholics, I can think of only two: the
: princely house of Hohehnzollern-Sigmaringen
: and the Kohary branch of the ducal house of
: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The present Belgian
: sovereign, although descending from the
: former, actually descends from the
: Protestant branch of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
:
: Anyhow, what were other German houses that
: were Catholics?
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