Again I ask...what "blatant" proof are you referring to? MT's theatrics at a luncheon where she invited a room full of strangers-journalists no less-to listen to her teary rendition of "
Belle Mere hates me because I am not Royal and I am an Hispanic?"
Is/was there corresponding eyewitness OUTSIDE testimony to J-C's alleged racism and bigotry other than her daughter-in-law's completely unprofessional display? Other family members? Journalists? Staff?
Grand Duke Jean's and her husband's silence on the matter don't mean they agreed with her at all. These were men who had been raised to believe-as many Royal and non Royal people-that
private family disputes are not aired in public in front of complete strangers.
There is no way to know how they reacted in private to her behavior.
Baudouin and Albert both married aristocrats. Yet ironically, it is the alleged snobby bigot J-C who fell desperately in love with a commoner-a
tennis player no less!!-and was denied the right to marry him by her parents.(Paul Belien "A Throne for Brussels)
MT's accusations against her mother-in-law might have merit...but then again it may not. There is reasonable doubt, is all I am saying here and there certainly is no certifiable proof. Maybe there was bad blood between the women and MT CHOSE to believe it was because her commoner status and her race as an Hispanic woman?
Interestingly, one of MT's disgruntled former employees is writing a book about HER alleging some rather unflattering things about her(something no one on JC's staff ever did btw). Maybe more light will be shed on her relationship with her late mother-in-law in this book...if it ever sees print which I doubt.
[[Before Fabiola,there were plans for Baudouin to marry Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia(she was sister of Queen Marie-Jose's son in law),but she strongly opposed and ran away from home.[//quote]]
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Marengo I have never heard that one at all and I don't believe it. I doubt that Baudouin, more Catholic than the Pope, would have ever consented to marry Princess Elizabeth. Not only is she Orthodox, she was and is extremely worldly and sophisticated(JFK and Richard Burton are only two of her many documented lovers). In other words the exact opposite of Baudouin.
Other than her great beauty, I can see nothing about her that would have attracted him. They both dodged a bullet!