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: 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.
:
: Makes perfect sense to me.
:
: Btw, how did you like the book? I started
: reading it a while ago but switched to
: Princess Irene’s bio, still to be finished,
: too.
:
: I enjoyed reading it but can't now seem to
: recall much else about it. I also read her
: mother's memoirs which were naturally quite
: defensive of her father, Wilhelm II and her
: Prussian family. I recall how she made much
: of the fact that her marriage helped heal a
: 50 year rift between the Hanoverians and the
: Hohenzollerns dating back to the invasion
: and annexation of Hannover by the Prussians
: in 1866.
:
: Are you finding Princess Irene's memoirs
: interesting and informative?
:
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