Posted by José
on 1/11/2009, 16:31:00, in reply to "Why couldn't Felipe marry a foreigner?"
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: Hereditary Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein is
: certainly in a class all by himself -- being
: the only heir to a throne, in his
: generation, to marrying completely
: *equally.* I wonder if Hereditary Princess
: Sophie, before marriage, was ever linked to
: the Prince of the Asturias ...
I never heard that Sophie was ever linked to Felipe.
Besides, being older than him, it would have made more sense linking him to one of Sophie's younger sisters.
:
: Perhaps she WAS, but the Liechtensteinians
: envisioned their own princess as the future
: bride of Felipe (something that King Juan
: Carlos and Queen Sofia would dearly have
: welcomed), and sent her the message that
: "no, Felipe is for Tatiana; you can
: have her brother Aloys as your husband
: instead."
Hard to imagine Pr. Hans-Adam commanding the matchmaking from the peaks of Vaduz.
:
: I personally think that the other Philippe
: (the Duke of Brabant) should have married
: either Princess Sophie of Bavaria or one of
: the Spanish Infantas (Elena or Cristina),
They are so dull and plain.
Elena was even dumped by AD George on account of her looks.
And we are speaking of AD George, who is not exactly a George ... Clooney or a Brad Pitt 
: Mathilde should have married Prince Aloys
: (she would have been an acceptable bride by
: Liechtensteinian standards, even before
: World War I),
Mathilde stepped into the limelight when her engagement to Philippe was announced.
Does anybody know if, previously, she mingled with other royals ?
What chance did she have to have met Aloys ?
and that Felipe should have
: married Tatiana.
: