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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2006 3:53:10 GMT -4
Several years ago Vanity Fair did an article on Prince Ernst of Hanover which claimed he has poryphyria but it's hushed up. That was the first time I'd ever heard of the disease, in fact.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2006 22:26:25 GMT -4
I'm reading An Uncommon Woman yet AGAIN, and a bio of Wilhelm II of Germany. Damn, what a horrible son. You know, it's very interesting to speculate what history would have been like if Frederick III had survived and reigned. It's possible that the entire first half of the 20th century would have been VERY different.
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Post by Peggy Lane on Jun 19, 2006 16:27:18 GMT -4
Or just if Vicky had been able to convince him about taking his father's offer to abdicate in his favor. I think that if Vicky had been in Prussia at the time, she might've been able to convince him, and then history would have, indeed, been very different.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2006 0:02:17 GMT -4
Very, very true. Just how many minor German royals were there? You had dukes and archdukes and princes and kings and what not. Good god, there was (from memory:) -Prussia -Hesse (Hesse-Dharmstadt, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Homburg, etc) -Bavaria -Wurtemberg -Brandenberg -Saxony -Baden -Schleswig-Holstein (Sonderberg/Augustenberg/Glucksberg) -Mecklenberg-Schwerin -Coburg (Saxe-Coburg-Saylfield, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) -Mecklenburg-Strelitz Ah, here we go: German Confederation statesAnd that's not even counting Austria!
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Post by Auroranorth on Jun 23, 2006 13:01:16 GMT -4
Yeah, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a German prince, who wasn't prince of all that much.
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Post by Mouse on Jun 23, 2006 17:13:13 GMT -4
True. Catherine the Great was originally Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, a really, really, REALLY minor German territory.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2006 17:15:08 GMT -4
Yep, although she was more royal than her husband's grandmother-Peter the Great's second wife, Catherine I, was a Polish peasant turned camp whore.
And the Serbian royals were originally pig farmers, albeit very wealthy ones.
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Post by Auroranorth on Jun 26, 2006 10:00:37 GMT -4
Catherine I was interesting- she made it from camp whore to empress. How many pampered princesses could have done what she did?
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Post by Mouse on Aug 15, 2006 19:38:59 GMT -4
Here's my question: am I the only one who thinks that Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley were the Britney Spears and Kevin Federline of their era?
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Post by happypenguin on Aug 17, 2006 4:03:56 GMT -4
I'm reading An Uncommon Woman yet AGAIN, and a bio of Wilhelm II of Germany. Damn, what a horrible son. You know, it's very interesting to speculate what history would have been like if Frederick III had survived and reigned. It's possible that the entire first half of the 20th century would have been VERY different. I've been reading Born to Rule and his treatment of his sister Sophia of Greece (Constantine I?'s wife) is horrible too. Especially as the things he objected to were her attempts to fit in with Greek life, her conversion to Greek orthodoxy. She unlike the modern day Greek Royals seems to have taken a real effort to fit in, e.g. learning Greek etc. And her correspondance with Vicky is fascinating.
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