Aunt Ena
Just as most of Eyurope’s Catholic royal families were (and a few are) closely related, so were the Protestant and orthodox. It is customary among these families to address all members of the previous generation as “aunt” or “uncle”. The Greek and Hanoverian royals were closely related to the British, so it was perfectly normal for all of Queen Sofia’s generation to address their elders in this way. An amusing example was Napoleon, after his marriage to Archduchess Marie Louise, who referred to “my late uncle Louis XVI”! When more distantly related, or for the same generation, royals write (in French) “Mon cher cousin” or “Ma chère cousine” or the English or German equivalents, and I have seen such letter from the Queen (EII) and from other royals even to members of Middle Eastern royal families as “cousin” even though of course they were completely unrelated. --Previous Message-- : --Previous Message-- : Manuel, how was the relationship between : Queen Victoria Eugenia & the Countess of : Barcelona? : : Really good. She was, after all, Aunt Ena. : : Interesting way to describe her : mother-in-law. :
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