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You are always coming back with your "Oranje Boven".
I mentionned the five ROMAN CATHOLIC Monarchies.
I mentionned the five ROMAN CATHOLIC Monarchies.
In the five Catholic Royal Families they are divorces.
Infanta Elena and nearly all the Children of Infanta Pilar divorced.
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You are always coming back with your "Oranje Boven".
I mentionned the five ROMAN CATHOLIC Monarchies.
There have been several divorces in the Bernadotte af Wisborg family but never a divorce in the Royal family itself. There has been some flawed marriages but no divorce yet.I find it strange that they include Sweden here. Not because I think that divorces in the royal family couldn't happen here, but there hasn't been any, at least not in the current royal family. They bring up the case of princess Birgitta (the king's sister). She and her husband never divorced. They lived separate lives the last years until his death a year ago, but were never formally divorced and - as I understand it - were on friendly and speaking terms with eachother.
Also here the question pops up: what is the Royal House and what is not? Can you file the divorce of Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme (granddaughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands) from Mr Edwin de Roy van Zuydewijn under "Dutch monarchy"? For me that is a divorce in the House of Bourbon-Parma.
So there were three divorces in the Dutch Royal House in total:
1849
HRH Princess Marianne of the Netherlands - HRH Prince Albrecht of Prussia
1981
HRH Princess Irene of the Netherlands - HRH Prince Carlos Hugo de Bourbon de Parme
1996
HRH Princess Christina of the Netherlands - Mr Jorge Pérez de Guillermo
In fact their son who died two years after his father was born in 1344. His marriage of Margaret of Austria made the couples allies of the Hapdburgs. The Hspaburgs helped Margaret and Louis clear their excommunication two years before Louis died.
Princess Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine and Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse and by Rhine waited until their grandmother Queen Victoria's demise to divorce.
It wasn't just Alix who was against the marriage of Kyril and Ducky - the Russian Orthodox Church forbade marriage between first cousins.Her second marriage to GD Kiril was much happier. He was her cousin as well, but on her mother's side (her mother was the elder sister of his father, both children of Alexander II). Unfortunately their marriage faced great opposition on Kyril's side due to her being divorced. Tsarina Alexandra was not only her cousin but her former sister in law and completely opposed to Victoria marrying Kiril.