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Older son-in-law

Posted by Jane on 26/2/2020, 5:18:11

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This has probably happened quite frequently in European royal history -- especially in the past, when marriages were typically arranged for political reasons. So a princess might very well be married off extremely young to a man old enough to be her father, if not grandfather (Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont married, as his second wife, King Willem III of the Netherlands, who was old enough to be her grandfather).

The result, then, was that a royal might very well have a son-in-law older than himself. Can anybody name examples of this happening?

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Older son-in-law - Jane 26/2/2020, 5:18:11

Re: Older son-in-law - William F 26/2/2020, 6:41:18
Re: Older son-in-law - William F 26/2/2020, 6:47:21
- Barely Older son-in-law - José 26/2/2020, 14:47:57
Re: Older son-in-law - William F 26/2/2020, 13:17:53
Thurn und Taxis - José 27/2/2020, 17:54:31

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