[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by The Watcher

De Telegraaf is wrong, they want to show that Wilhelmina is not the daughter of Queen Emma (but why?), more info http://www.allthingsroyal.nl/forum/i...ndpost&p=19261 (in Dutch)

Unfortunately my Dutch is not good enough to grab all the information but I do wonder, too why someone should want to prove that Queen Wilhelmina wasn't the daughter of Queen Emma? I mean, AFAIK, you can only (if at all!) prove with Princess M.'s DNA a descent through the female line. So only the connection Wilhelmina-Emma could be checked but not the connection Wilhelmina-Willem III.

Okay, if Wilhelmina was born to Queen Emma while Queen Emma was legally married to the king and the king accepted the baby as his, then at least here in Germany she would be legally the king's daughter, no matter who the biological father was. If, as I could imagine, the law is the same in the Netherlands, then there is no sense in proving whether Wilhelmina was biologically the king#s daughter or not, because today it wouldn't matter at all, because the princess, later Queen Wilhelmina had been legally the king's daughter and as such his heiress.

But - if the child was not the daughter of Queen Emma, then of course she could not have legally been the king's daughter and his heiress. That could have eventually some consequences for the current queen, but only eventually as I don't know if there was a law needed to install Wilhelmina as queen. If there was such a law, then the legal claim for Wilhelmina and her descendants would not come from the legal birth of Wilhelmina but from this law - making her and her daughter and grand-daughter legally queens no matter who Wilhelmina's parents were.

But - isn't it very, very unbelievable that someone could have pulled such a stunt with a potential heiress? Someone was bound to know and the truth would have come out. So for me this is absolutely ridiculous and only made up to hurt the royal family!