Posted by CatherineNY
on 2/11/2009, 4:42:58, in reply to "Re: Why couldn't Felipe marry a foreigner?"
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I thought it was Elena who was linked to Eberhard, and that Diane was pushing the match (there was a feature in Point de Vue some years back, in which Elena visited Wurttemberg, and helped the family at some kind of charitable event. The Duchess of Wurttemberg has always done a very good job of getting coverage in Point de Vue, at least until recent changes in the publication.)
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: I think I also read Cristina was linked to
: Eberhard of Württemberg (certainly Diane
: would have looooved that match - I'm not
: sure about Sofia) and to Kiril or Konstantin
: of Bulgaria.
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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.
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: 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.
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