: 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
:
Many years ago I read her autobiography, "A Measure Of Understanding" and I recall she made some such remark in a retort to Winston Churchill to whom she was introduced at a meeting in London sometime in the 1940s. As I recall the conversation went something like this:
Churchill: "Is it true that the Kaiser was your
grandfather?"
Frederika: "Yes he was but Queen Victoria was
also my great-great grandmother and if you had
Salic Law in Britain my father would be your
king today".
Frederika was alluding to the fact that if the succession to the British throne followed Salic Law like in Hanover, her ancestor, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland would have succeeded his elder brother William IV as monarch of the UK (as well as Hanover) instead of his niece, Victoria and Frederika's father (then still living) would eventually have succeeded to the British throne.
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