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I don't know whether there was ever any reason to believe that Carl and Anne were attached to one another. In a biography of Diane which she co-authored with Jacqueline Malherbe, she says that Carl (and, at times, his entire family) spent vacations with her family, both in Portugal and in France. She also says that, once she turned 15, Carl came to visit more often. Of course, Diane's eldest brother married Carl's sister in 1957, which brought the families even closer together. The idea that Carl would marry Anne may have been wishful thinking on his parents' part. It is hard to know, since all the accounts I have seen come directly from Diane, and she definitely has an axe to grind (or more to the point, an axe to use against her sister Anne).
Were there any evidences that Carl and Anne were close enought so they would get married? And is it known when Carl and Diane got to know each other? Was this relationship one of those who began in those days Queen Frederica of Greece used to organize big royal gatherings?
"she had Stephane Bern write about the fact that she left her husband, and had (according to the biography) multiple relationships, including at least one with (again, according to her own testimony) "a king."
... and people wonder why Q.Sofia can't stand Diane.
A cruel statement to Duke Karl, but also to Q.Sofia and Karl and Sofia's children.
I remember having read that when Duke Karl announced to his parents he was going to marry a daughter of the Counts of Paris, his Mother was over the moon as she assumed it would be quiet, lovely Anita.
It was a blow for her when she realized that it was wild Diane that her son wanted to marry.
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