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: 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.
Indeed, since right before his death there were only 2 heirs, his grandson and son.
: 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.
Not to mention that when Frederica married Paul the Hanoverians weren’t a reigning dynasty for quite some time as well as the Prussian Hohenzollerns from whom she descended on her maternal side.
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.
She was being quite snobish towards the British official
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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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