What I'm interested in, however, are those women who had both fathers and sons who became kings, without themselves ever becoming queens. Off the top of my head, I can name only three: 1) Princess Clémentine of Orléans (daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, and mother of Ferdinand I, Tsar of Bulgaria); 2) Princess Sophie of Bavaria (daughter of King Maximilian I of Bavaria, and mother of Emperor Franz II Joseph of Austria-Hungary); 3) Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (daughter of King Georg of Saxony and mother of Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary).
The latter case is full of twists that might not have placed her in such a position: nobody expected her uncle (King Anton) to have a childless marriage). Her father, being not much younger, might well have predeceased him -- instead of surviving him by just two years, during which time he was the rightful king of Saxony. Also, nobody expected, at the time of her marriage in 1886 to Archduke Otto of Austria, for his cousin (Archduke Rudolph) to get messed up in the Mayerling incident. Or for her husband's older brother (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) to marry morganatically with Countess Sophie Chotek -- much less get assassinated at Sarajevo.
Anyhow, I'm sure there are plenty of other examples in history. Can anybody name me some more?
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