Now Françoise's cousin Prince Aimone of Savoy, Duke of Aosta (son of her maternal aunt, Princess Hélène of Orléans), married Christopher's niece, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark. Certainly nobody questions the maternal identity of the present day Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta.
The further down one goes down in genealogy, provided that the interfaith marriages are equal, the greater are ties to the said ALMANACH. Françoise's aunt, Princess Marie of Orléans (1865–1909), married Prince Valdemark of Denmark, youngest son of King Christian IX. Although related to all the Protestant royals of Europe, he didn't have close or direct ties to the Romanov imperial dynasty of Russia, like his nephew (Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark).
But Marie's own daughter, Princess Margarethe of Denmark, married Prince René of Bourbon-Parma; and their daughter Anne married King Michael of Romania. So the five Romanian princesses could claim to be as well-connected as the Duke of Aosta.
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