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: In addition, Frederika seemed to have
: a bit of perhaps arrogance or haughtiness in
: regards to other royal houses. I read that
: she had made a comment to the British
: official, foreign secretary or prime
: minister, that if Britain had recognized the
: Salic law then her grandfather would have
: become king of U.K. after William IV rather
: than Queen Victoria.
:
: She was being quite snobish towards the
: British official
:
: Many years ago I read her autobiography,
: "A Measure Of Understanding" and
: I recall she made some such remark in a
: retort to Winston Churchill to whom she was
: introduced at a meeting in London sometime
: in
: the 1940s. As I recall the conversation went
: something like this:
:
: Churchill: "Is it true that the Kaiser
: was your
: grandfather?"
:
: Frederika: "Yes he was but Queen
: Victoria was
: also my great-great grandmother and if you
: had
: Salic Law in Britain my father would be your
: king today".
:
: Frederika was alluding to the fact that if
: the succession to the British throne
: followed Salic Law like in Hanover, her
: ancestor, Ernest Augustus, Duke of
: Cumberland would have succeeded his elder
: brother William IV as monarch of the UK as
: well as Hanover instead of his niece,
: Victoria and Frederika's father (then still
: living) would eventually have succeeded to
: the British throne.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Btw, how did you like the book? I started reading it a while ago but switched to Princess Irene’s bio, still to be finished, too.
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