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: It's difficult to guess what Leopold wanted
: for his oldest son. He himself had first
: married equally by marrying a Royal princess
: from Sweden. He forbade his brother Charles,
: count of Flanders to marry a commoner. Yet
: Leopold did remarry a commoner himself.
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: Did Leopold III favoured the wedding to
: Pilar
: ?
:
: Were there any other candidates in the
: king's sleeve ?
:
: Baudouin was a very shy and serious man who
: lacked his brother's joie de vivre and
: conquests.
:
: He was more simillar to their sister
: Joséphine-Charlotte, both with a high sense
: of duty.
:
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: There have been rumours that part of the
: rift
: between Leopold III and his oldest son and
: successor Boudewijn were the result of
: Lilian being informed by a member of
: Fabiola's family she might have trouble
: giving the king an heir and Lilian bringing
: this to the attention of the King.
: It's never been confirmed though and Fabiola
: did go on to have 4 or 5 pregnancies who all
: ended too soon for any child to be alive.
:
: Pilar would have made a great Queen of the
: Belgians and a marriage between her and
: Boudewijn might have kept more continental
: monarchies sticking to equal marriages.
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: --Previous Message--
: Back to Princesses and haemophylia:
:
: Infanta Cristina, Alfonso XIII's youngest
: daughter, was a cheerful but not very bright
: person. When King Leopold III of Belgium
: lost
: his beloved Astrid, Cristina set her eyes on
: him.
:
: In an interview she said that it was all
: right for her to marry Leopold and have his
: children. If any child was infected, there
: was : no problem. Leopold already had a
: heir and a
: spare. Very profound !
:
: Her comments do sound rather tactless and
: silly and yet I can sympathise with her and
: her sister's predicament and frustration at
: the threat of carrying haemophilia
: interfering and possibly ruining their
: chances of making an equal marriage.
:
: On the next generation, the ghost of
: haemophylia still endured.
:
: Q.Ena and the CoB wanted very much that
: Infanta Pilar would marry King Baudouin.
:
: Of course there was no danger that Infanta
: Pilar could carry haemophilia as her father
: was completely healthy and a woman can only
: inherit the defective gene from a
: haemophiliac father or a mother who herself
: carries the gene.
:
:
: A perfect match that would strenghten the
: prestige of the dethroned SRF by marrying
: into a reigning RF.
:
: In the end, the King not only followed his
: heart but dismissed the possibilty of having
: sick sons. Little did he know he would never
: father any son...
:
: Is there evidence that King Baudouin was
: dissuaded from contemplating a match with
: Infanta Pilar in the mistaken belief she
: could be a haemophiliac carrier?
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