Madame Royale
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Could I perhaps ask you how you have come to this conclusion, Polly? And what is it that you believe to have been so 'morally repugnant'?
With all due respect, C-T, I think that the royal family was indeed very fortunate that he died.
Albert Victor, from my perspective, was a decidedly unattractive and reprehensible human being. Heaven only knows how the larger-than-life and naughty but nice Edward VII, and the delightful Queen Alexandra produced such an unlovely, morally repugnant and ugly character as I think that this son was.
But did May really love AV at all? Everything I've ever read suggests she was chosen for him mainly because she was an attractive, serious hard-working girl of impeccable moral character and that she accepted his proposal because she was raised to believe there was no higher calling than to be a member of the Royal Family. I'm sure they were fond of each other and shew was saddened by his death - after all, they were children together - but I doubt if this was a grand passion for either side.
So if you take it that May never loved AV, perhaps the idea that she transferred her affections to George isn't that hard to understand.
If Polly would cite her sources, that will be helpful in understanding how she comes to these hard opinions about AV.
Why then was Eddy moved to Sandringham for the final illness of his life? Sandringham is where he died, right?
Had Albert Victor become King, then the Head of State of my country would have been one of his descendants
I think you got that wrong - Eddy died before he married May, so they had no children. The current queen is a grand-grand-niece of Eddy, no direct descendant. As if that helped.... think of Edward VIII. and his Nazi-friends...Our current Head of State is one of his descendants and Her Majesty seems perfectly turned out to me (though I 'get' your point)
Given the worrying habit of the Habsburgs to intermarry which, it's claimed, gave prominence to many inherited problems and deformities, I can only speculate of what sort of a man or woman would be pre-eminent in this land.
Hmm..., do you use descendant in English even if there is no direct bloodline? Can someone have descendents who died without leaving issue? It's a language queston for me, so I'm thankful to anybody who could point me to a discussion about the word and his correct meaning.Thank you!No, it's quite correct, Jo.Though not direct, Elizabeth is still a descendant of Albert Victor. I assure you dear heart that I am perfectly aware of the BRF family tree And Elizabeth is actually his great niece, not great great.