Thyra fell in love and had an "affair" with Wilhelm Marcher, a lietenant in the danish cavalry. Such affair took place in 1870/71.
It is extremely doubtful that sister Alexandra would not know of it, considering that the whole family was involved and that Thyra travelled to Greece and stayed with brother George to hide her pregnancy.
Her daughter, Marie, was then adopted by a greek family.
Don't know if she had any further contact with her mother or her danish/greek family.
Eventually she married a Mr. Hjalmar Plřyen-Holstein, which seems a very danish name
Either she returnedo to Denmark or Mr. P-Holstein travelled to Greece
Does anybody know what, if anything, the widowed Queen Marie thought of her only son marrying a woman like Thyra -- a princess with a scandalous reputation? After all, she had a past, having borne an illegitimate daughter conceived through an affair before marriage.
It has never been proven that Thyra had an illegitimate daughter, but assuming the rumour is true, it does not necessarily mean that she "had an affair" or "a scandalous reputation". She might well have been a victim of grooming. In 1873 Queen Victoria allowed her son Arthur to travel to Denmark and court Thyra, so her reputation can't have been that scandalous.
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