Juliana liked Paul a lot even so much she considered him a good candidate tor her hand. Unfortunately his brother George II needed him as a successor in Greece. Had he or Alexander had a male heir Paul might have become the consort of Juliana.
The House of Orange was of course related multiple times to Frederika and her confidence must have impressed Juliana and Bernhard.
Their two older daughters were if not close friends still well known to Constantine and Sofia. They were also fairly closely related to the three Danish princesses.
Their paternal grandmother Alexandrine was the first cousin of Queen Juliana. Alexandrine's mother-in-law Lovisa Bernadotte was herself a granddaughter of prince Frederik of the Netherlands.
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: So, when did the Spanish and Dutch royals
: become close? King Juan Carlos and Queen
: Beatrix had a good relationship. No idea
: about the Count of Barcelona and Queen
: Juliana. Or was it maybe because JC's
: marriage with Princess Sophia of Greece. I
: think the Greek and Dutch royals were close.
: They were invited to the Agamenon cruise.
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: Had Maria Antonia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
: become the Queen-consort of Spain she would
: have been the first cousin of Queen Juliana
: of the Netherlands. Im not sure how Queen
: Wilhelmina would have felt about her niece
: marrying the descendant and successor of
: Phillip II.
: 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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