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: Being tall and well build has always been
: attributed to the Wurttemberg influence of
: Sophia Dorothea/Maria Feodorovna.
Just as well as her husband, although nice looking as a child, was allegedly not too good looking as an adult. Of course that could have been a result of typhus and his neurological problems. Their eldest son, Alexander I, was supposed to have been good looking.
Peter III
: and Paul I were short and slight in build,
: however Peter's grandfather Peter the Great
: was tall and well build so the genes could
: simply have skipped a few generations. I
: don't believe that Paul was the son of one
: of Catherine the Great's lovers. I think he
: was her husband's. His sister the tsarevna
: Anna Petrovna was most likely the result of
: one of Catherine's affairs. With the birth
: of Paul she had done her main duty as seen
: by the then Empress Elisabeth Petrovna.
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: Yes, I can see some resemblance between W-A
: and Willem III.
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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_the_Netherlands
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: Now, did Anna Pavlovna take after her father
: or her Württenberg mother?
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: That depends on what you call Orange-Nassau
: genes. Until Willem II married Anna Pavlovna
: the men in the family tended to be short and
: slight in build. Of their sons Willem III
: took after his Romanov siblings and his
: younger brother Hendrik was more like the
: Orange-Nassau men before him.
: Willem Alexander resembles Willem III as in
: the fact that both were/are tall and have
: good deep voices.
: I think Irene's second son Jaime has a
: shorter slighter build but that also makes
: him resemble his grandfather Bernhard.
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: Interesting thing genes:
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: Amalia: Waldeck-Pyrmont
: Alexia: Zorreguieta
: Ariane: Lippe-Biesterfeld
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: Agree. Lovely looking girls, all three.
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: Who in the Dutch Royal Family has
: Orange-Nassau genes in looks?
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