Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I need to make one minor correction. Edward VII was married to a Danish princess; her sister was married to Czar Alexander III. Hence, George V and Nicholas II were first cousins through this Danish connexion, not through Victoria. Wilhelm II and George V were first cousins through their common grand-mother, Victoria. Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were much more distantly related, though Nicholas' wife was from the Ducal House of Hesse (yeah, the guys who supplied George III with those Hessians of "Crossing-the-Delaware" fame), and was a sister to the wife of Prince Louis of Battenberg, the British First Sea Lord when the First World War broke out. (Some years earlier, Prince Louis had been fussed at by a German admiral for serving in the Royal Navy: Prince Louis merely replied that, "when I joined the Royal Navy, in 1862, there was no German Navy." Conversation ended.) Prince Louis Francified his family name to Montbatten and the future Earl Montbatten of Burma was his second son, and, also, a first cousin, once removed, of Prince Phillip. (Montbatten, in his youth, was an intimate of the future Duke of Windsor; later, he was quite close to Phillip.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!