Posted by Damian on 22/1/2011, 18:03:24, in reply to "Re: The race for an heir/ George IV"
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: Grandduchess Catherine Pavlovna joined her
: brother tsar Alexander I on his visit to
: London. She was a widow and considered
: George as a possible spouse (his desire to
: divorce Caroline was well known throughout
: Europe). She however did not like him and
: meddled in his plans for the marriage of his
: daughter Charlotte of Wales to William of
: Orange (later king Willem II). During the
: Viennese Congres she met her cousin Wilhelm
: of Wurtemberg and they fell in love. He
: divorced his Bavarian wife (who went on to
: marry the Emperor of Austria) and the couple
: married a few weeks before her youngest
: sister Anna married Charlotte's discarded
: fiancé Willem of the Netherlands.
:
: I wish George had married the Grand Duchess
: andm made the most dazzling match in British
: history.
I think their personalities would have clashed.He was too self-absorbed and she too meddlesome.It would probably have ended as disastrously as the marriage with Caroline.George simply did not make a good husband.I think she perceived this only too well and calculated that the prospect of becoming Queen of Great Britain was not worth the personal unhappiness it would probably cause her.
As she died in 1819,she would not have lived to become queen anyway.
: Certainly, he was not too lazy to
: consider remarriage. He took a keen interest
: in little Victoria of Kent's half-sister,
: Feodora of Leiningen. The Duchess was
: disgusted.
I think I'm with the Duchess on that one! 
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