Jose - the Savoys were in disrepute after WWII, so other houses may not have viewed such a marriage favorably. - in truth, I was thinking of non-reigning houses.
But I think you're correct in speculating that the state of his parents' marriage would certainly give him pause to think about the virtue of a more traditional pairing
The only princesses from a reigning house could be the greek sisters Sophia and Irene .
I guess the lutheran danish or dutch princesses would be out of question.
There had been the Astrid precedent so may be one of the swedish princesses could be on the radar.
And then there were King Umberto's neighbours in Cascais and Sintra, the daughters of the Counts of Paris and Barcelona, but I never heard of any serious project with any princess.
V-E was too rebel and may be he just had to look at home and see his parent's arranged equal wedding to ran away from any simillar situation.
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