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Queenly schemes and royal morganatics across dynasties
The article recounts royal intrigue around morganatic marriages and dynastic ambitions. It details Countess Danner’s bid for queenly status in Denmark and her frictions with Empress Eugénie. It then covers Catherine the Delgoruka connection to Alexander II and the political weight of their circle, plus later notes on England’s George IV era and Mrs Fitzherbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise
Countess Danner
Wilhelmina
Denmark
Marian
Copenhagen
Paris
Eugénie
Tuileries
Napoleon III
Prussia
Austria
Alexander II
Youriefiska
Michael Delgoruka
Katherine
Czarina
Alexander
Marie
Nice
Loris Melikoff
Melikoff
Russia
Alexander III
Katherine Doky Cruka
Impe
England
George
Thomas Fitzherbert
Edward
Henry Errington
Fitzherbert