Your last point about the Swedish royal family being conservative is interesting. I seem to think that you are correct b/c C XVI G waited until after his grandfather, G VI A, had passed to be engaged to a non-royal, Silvia Somerlath. My understanding is that the old king was stringent about his male heirs choice of suitable, preferably royal, mates.
Furthermore, José made a reference to Frederika's daughter marrying a prince of a non-reigning house but it is, a bit sad, ironic that the Greek royal house would no longer reign in a relatively short amount of time. In addition, Frederika seemed to have a bit of perhaps arrogance or haughtiness in regards to other royal houses. I read that she had made a comment to the British official, foreign secretary or prime minister, that if Britain had recognized the Salic law then her grandfather would have become king of U.K. after William IV rather than Queen Victoria.
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: There are quite some footage of the Greek RF
: in the beginning of the 1960s - there were
: quite many important occasions - King Paul’s
: 60th birthday, the Greek RH’s centenary, the
: double royal weddings - and both King Paul
: & Queen Frederika seemed to be on very
: good terms with King Frederik & Queen
: Ingrid. Of course, these are footage of
: public events - one would never see them
: behaving differently.
: However, in private who knows if there were
: some tensions?
: It seemed there were between Frederika &
: Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain during the
: arrangements for Juan Carlos & Sofia’s
: wedding so...
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: That’s curious, at least to me, to learn
: Princess Sybilla defended a more liberal
: view on politics/monarchy, etc. Coming from
: a German former reigning RF (and I thought
: the Swedish RF was quite conservative before
: Carl XVI Gustaf ascended the throne) I
: always thought she was a staunch defender of
: a rigid concept of monarchy where duty
: always come first (and that included
: marriage).
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: Yes, thanks for the insight on Swedish royal
: court and Queen Frederika. I seem to recall
: Frederika organized a cruise for mostly
: young royals to meet, i.e., matchmaking. The
: only match, according to some accounts, the
: royal cruise seemed to have produced were
: the eventual engagement of the Spanish royal
: heir, Prince Juan Carlos, to Frederika's
: daughter, Princess Sofia.
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: Frederika and the Greek royal court had a
: different approach to their country's
: democratic principles, as you pointed out,
: than the Swedish or many of the other royal
: courts in Europe. Perhaps if Frederika had
: not meddled in Greek politics then the Greek
: throne may not be empty today. However,
: Constatine can take some of the blame
: himself but I think he listened to his
: mother's, apparently, bad advice.
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: I don´t know about the danish royal house
: but
: there was some tension between Frederika and
: various swedish royals. Stig H.son Ericson,
: marshal of the realm (highest courtier in
: Sweden) wrote his memoirs in the early
: seventies. He mentions that both king Gustaf
: VI Adolf (maternal grandfather of Anne
: Marie) and princess Sibylla had difficulties
: with the greek queen. Different ideas of
: politics/monarchy/democracy and in the case
: of Sibylla; suitable marriage partners.
: Princess Sibylla made clear that marriages
: cant be decided against the wishes of the
: children. I think we all know that Frederika
: was a royal matchmaker.
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: I'm fascinated with Queen Frederika.
: Moreover,
: does anyone know her relationship and her
: husband's with her son's in-laws? Was there
: any relationship at all. Anyway, I recall
: seeing a video of the queen and she was
: being escorted by King Frederik IX. Me
: thinks this was a pre-wedding banquet. I
: recall her son, Constantine, said that
: Frederik locked him in the bathroom after
: informing him of his engagement to his
: daughter, Anne-Marie. So, I suppose, owing
: to Frederika's known meddling in Greek
: politics whether the Danish royal family
: kept a distance from Frederika, so to speak.
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