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: Wilhelmina nearly died in 1902 and yes the
: succession would have gone to the line of
: her late aunt Sophie of the Netherlands,
: Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. At
: that time the Dutch constitution would only
: allow the Dutch monarch to be also monarch
: of Luxembourg so Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst
: would have had to make a choice. As he was
: already the reigning monarch in Weimar and
: his younger brother dead his aunt Marie
: Alexandrine (Zitta) who had married a Reuss
: was considered a more logical heiress. Her
: oldest son Heinrich XXXII was considered
: unsuitable to succeed although i don't
: really know why. The second son Heinrich
: XXXIII was seen as a potential future King
: and he visited the Netherlands a few times
: much to the distress of Wilhelmina. Even
: Wilhelm II must have considered Heinrich
: XXXIII as the likeliest heir in case
: something would happen to Wilhelmina and
: young Juliana as he supported the marriage
: of Heinrich to his relative Margrethe of
: Prussia. Her mother was the younger sister
: of the Empress Dona and her father a prince
: of Prussia. The couple married in 1913 and
: divorced in 1922. In that year the Dutch
: constitution was altered and limited the
: line of succession to third degree blood
: relations excluding all the German
: relatives.
: Heinrich's second marriage was to Allene
: Tew. This wealthy American had been married
: three times before and her fifth marriage
: would be to count Pavel Kotzbue. She was a
: friend of Princess Armgard of
: Lippe-Biesterfeld and helped Bernard's
: campaign to marry Julliana. She ended up
: being one of the godparents to Queen
: Beatrix.
:
: Marie Alexandrine's daughter Sophie Renate
: of Reuss married a relative Heinrich XXXIV
: and their oldest son Heinrich I married
: Juliana's full first cousin Duchess Woizlawa
: of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
:
: Another prince of Reuss married Charlotte of
: Mecklenburg-Schwerin through her mother a
: granddaughter of princess Marianne of the
: Netherlands.
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: In 1904 the Dutch Royal House consisted of 4
: people:
:
: HM the Queen (Wilhelmina)
: HM the Queen-mother (Emma)
: HRH Prince Hendrik
: HRH Princess Marie (granddaughter of Willem
: I).
:
: Two of them were elderly ladies and Hendrik
: had been in the family for only 3 years and
: was not allowed to do much on his own.
: Wilhelmina herself was in the first years of
: her marriage suffering from ill health, a
: still birth caused by typhoid fever that
: nearly killed her and several miscarriages.
: Not really a time when her mother or husband
: could leave their spot at her side.
: Princess Marie was mainly living in Germany
: with her husband Wilhelm von Wied only
: spending part of the year in her native
: country.
:
: What if Queen Wilhelmina had died in 1904?
: Who would have succeeded her?
:
: From a strict genealogical point of view,
: the next heir was Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst
: of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
:
: Would he have succeeded as King Willem IV of
: the Netherlands?
:
: Would a personal union between the
: Netherlands and Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach have
: been acceptable in 1904?
:
: In 1904 he had no children and no siblings
: alive, so he wasn't exactelly the ideal
: heir...
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