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: In 1904 the Dutch Royal House consisted of 4
: people:
:
: HM the Queen (Wilhelmina)
: HM the Queen-mother (Emma)
: HRH Prince Hendrik
: HRH Princess Marie (granddaughter of Willem
: I).
:
: Two of them were elderly ladies and Hendrik
: had been in the family for only 3 years and
: was not allowed to do much on his own.
: Wilhelmina herself was in the first years of
: her marriage suffering from ill health, a
: still birth caused by typhoid fever that
: nearly killed her and several miscarriages.
: Not really a time when her mother or husband
: could leave their spot at her side.
: Princess Marie was mainly living in Germany
: with her husband Wilhelm von Wied only
: spending part of the year in her native
: country.
What if Queen Wilhelmina had died in 1904? Who would have succeeded her?
From a strict genealogical point of view, the next heir was Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Would he have succeeded as King Willem IV of the Netherlands?
Would a personal union between the Netherlands and Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach have been acceptable in 1904?
In 1904 he had no children and no siblings alive, so he wasn't exactelly the ideal heir...
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