Is it known if Queen Victoria Eugenia had some contact with Queen Wilhelmina or Queen Emma? Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, was Queen Ena's first cousin as well as Queen Wilhelmina's.
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: Yes i do think the Greek connection made the
: current good relations between the Dutch and
: Spanish Royals.
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: Juliana liked Paul a lot even so much she
: considered him a good candidate tor her
: hand. Unfortunately his brother George II
: needed him as a successor in Greece. Had he
: or Alexander had a male heir Paul might have
: become the consort of Juliana.
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: The House of Orange was of course related
: multiple times to Frederika and her
: confidence must have impressed Juliana and
: Bernhard.
: Their two older daughters were if not close
: friends still well known to Constantine and
: Sofia. They were also fairly closely related
: to the three Danish princesses.
: Their paternal grandmother Alexandrine was
: the first cousin of Queen Juliana.
: Alexandrine's mother-in-law Lovisa
: Bernadotte was herself a granddaughter of
: prince Frederik of the Netherlands.
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: So, when did the Spanish and Dutch royals
: become close? King Juan Carlos and Queen
: Beatrix had a good relationship. No idea
: about the Count of Barcelona and Queen
: Juliana. Or was it maybe because JC's
: marriage with Princess Sophia of Greece. I
: think the Greek and Dutch royals were close.
: They were invited to the Agamenon cruise.
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: Had Maria Antonia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
: become the Queen-consort of Spain she would
: have been the first cousin of Queen Juliana
: of the Netherlands. Im not sure how Queen
: Wilhelmina would have felt about her niece
: marrying the descendant and successor of
: Phillip II.
: She was a rather staunch Protestant before
: WWI. Counting her ancestors Willem the
: Silent and his fourth father-in-law Gaspard
: de Coligny as two of her main inspirations
: and examples.
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: The Protestant Duke Paul of
: Mecklenburg-Schwerin, half-brother of Prince
: Hendrik of the Netherlands, married the
: Catholic Princess Marie of Windisch-Grätz
: and joined later in life her faith and I
: believe their children, at least the girls,
: were raised in the mother's faith. One of
: the girls, Duchess Marie Antoinette was once
: considered as a potential bride for King
: Alfonso XIII of Spain (a sort of German
: candidate from Emperor Wilhelm II).
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: As I understand, Germany had five kingdoms
: before World War I. Only one of them
: (Bavaria) was solidly Catholic -- in terms
: of sovereigns and subjects. Hanover and
: Prussia were solidly Protestants. But
: Saxony and Württemberg were mixed: I believe
: the subjects in both were Protestants, but
: the sovereigns were Catholics -- thanks to a
: change of hands through intermarriages. Is
: this true?
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: As for the smaller German states that were
: Catholics, I can think of only two: the
: princely house of Hohehnzollern-Sigmaringen
: and the Kohary branch of the ducal house of
: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The present Belgian
: sovereign, although descending from the
: former, actually descends from the
: Protestant branch of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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: Anyhow, what were other German houses that
: were Catholics?
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