Heinrich's second marriage was to Allene Tew. This wealthy American had been married three times before and her fifth marriage would be to count Pavel Kotzbue. She was a friend of Princess Armgard of Lippe-Biesterfeld and helped Bernard's campaign to marry Julliana. She ended up being one of the godparents to Queen Beatrix.
Marie Alexandrine's daughter Sophie Renate of Reuss married a relative Heinrich XXXIV and their oldest son Heinrich I married Juliana's full first cousin Duchess Woizlawa of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Another prince of Reuss married Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin through her mother a granddaughter of princess Marianne of the Netherlands.
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: In 1904 the Dutch Royal House consisted of 4
: people:
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: 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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