The Windsors are free to do what they want, but I don't think anyone would have objected if an engagement was cancelled for the funeral of a first cousin. Other royals has no problems with cancelling engagements or splitting up a double engagement to go to funerals of close friends and relatives. For instance on Monday King Carl Gustav & Queen Silvia has pulled out of a planned luncheon with the members of the previous government to go to King Constantine's funeral and Princess Beatrix has cancelled one of her planned engagements.
They never went to events hosted by them and they weren’t at Edwards wedding either. Them being first cousins isn’t that big of a deal because Max is literally old enough to be Edwards father, he’s much closer in age to the late Margraves son than the Margrave himself. Margrave Max is more of Anne and Charles’s age mate than Edward.
I don’t know but sometimes not everyone attends funerals or weddings of people they may have close blood ties to but not necessarily close relationships.
Prince Albert of Monaco and Princess Caroline of Hanover (Monaco) are siblings and the Grimaldis are descendants of the House of Baden.
When I was talking about closeness, I was referring to certain members of the BRF not being close ie. Edward. The Queen and late DOE were much closer in age and relations to the late Margrave than their children. The Margrave being close relation and having close relations to the late DOE doesn’t necessarily mean that the wider BRF were close to him. I’m sure private condolences were sent.
Thanks. I had no idea about this connection Monaco / Baden.
No I am saying Caroline and her brother are descendants of Princess Marie Amelie of Baden who married one of the Dukes of Hamilton. They are descendants of the royal house via a female line and Albert invited the Grand Ducal house to his 2011 wedding
No, the Grimaldis are mainly of French descent. They descend from the House of Baden through Lady Victoria Douglas-Hamilton who was a granddaughter of Grand Duke Karl of Baden. Lady Victoria married Prince Albert I of Monaco and is the great-great grandmother of Prince Albert and Princess Caroline.
I looked at the guests present at the funeral- Hohenzollern, Hannover, Grimaldi, King of Belgians, even Prince of Jordan bothered to be present but none from Windsor dynasty... It's reminds me the issue when nobody from British royals has attended the funeral of Queen Fabiola of Belgians....
A bit shame I think.....Ekaterina of Hanover was at the funeral because you can see on the fashion thread about German, French and Luxembourg’s royals
The Jordanian royals have been close with the Grand Ducal family for years and have been invited to their weddings and the Grand Ducal family likewise have reciprocated those invites when they attended the wedding of Prince Hassan of Jordan’s son and they have been invited to wedding of some of the German royal houses.I looked at the guests present at the funeral- Hohenzollern, Hannover, Grimaldi, King of Belgians, even Prince of Jordan bothered to be present but none from Windsor dynasty... It's reminds me the issue when nobody from British royals has attended the funeral of Queen Fabiola of Belgians....
Yes also Ernst-August jr. I saw after
How do we even know they were invited? For all we know they might not have been invited.
Well Alexandra lives in Monaco. She’s known to the families she’s closely related to like Hanover, Prussia, Leiningen, etc and her life is different from their royals living in Germany.
If the Windsors weren't welcome to the funeral they wouldn't have representatives there.
But there was a list of who would be coming and the list didn’t mention them at all. The Grand Ducal family obviously had contact with those they could invite before making announcements
