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Re: Ludwig II
« Reply #90 on: October 17, 2010, 08:45:57 AM »
Agrre with you. But Ludwig II. had a more softer face.

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« Reply #91 on: October 17, 2010, 03:49:34 PM »
Pictures taken in Munich in 1863 of Ludwig II and Otto with their first cousin, Prince Wilhelm of Hesse (uncle of Empress Alexandra Feodrovna). The cousins were very close as their mothers often meet up in Bavaria with their children.

Prince Wilhelm of Hesse probably has more of a family resemblance to King Ludwig II then his elder brother.

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« Reply #92 on: October 27, 2010, 12:16:54 PM »
The young Ludwig wrote to his former governess that he saw a young man with naked upper body in a sawmill in some Alpine village, who had struck him by his beauty and "heroïc shape"! ("Ein König wird beseitigt: Ludwig II. von Bayern." by Heinz Häfner, page 53.) He really loved his subjects (at least the handsome ones, he had a phobia against ugly people) and was folkloric even in his intimate desires! Gotta love him for that.
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« Reply #93 on: January 22, 2011, 11:38:14 PM »
Did Ludwig have any children?  Legitimate or otherwise--known or unknown.  Real or legendary?

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« Reply #94 on: January 23, 2011, 01:59:38 AM »
Do you think John Dillinger looks like our favourite King Ludwig?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dillinger

I'm not sure if it is Dillinger, or the resemblence, but, It sends shivers up my spine.  Maybe I have just been looking at pictures of nobles for too long, because they are all begining to look alike to me.
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« Reply #95 on: January 23, 2011, 09:50:26 AM »
I cant see the resemblance. Sorry.

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« Reply #96 on: January 23, 2011, 10:08:41 AM »
Perhaps you will see a resemblence in this picture?

http://home.comcast.net/~mrk80920/site/?/page/August_Carl_Kean

I'm not claiming anything, the resemblence is just spooky if you ask me.

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« Reply #97 on: January 23, 2011, 07:35:39 PM »
Sorry but , no, i dont see the  resemblance. But its a handsome gent!!

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« Reply #98 on: January 24, 2011, 12:53:13 PM »
Thank you for looking at the pictures.  I'm a bit relieved that you see no resemblence.  He sure was a handsome gent, and I'm sure he appreciates you saying that (from heaven.)  All of his great grandchildren look like him, except one of us looks exactly like Prince William of England, and no one in my family knows how that happened.

In Neukirchen, Saxony, there is an entire fire department of young men who look like that.  Unfortunetely, we all grow up, and end up looking like Ludwig or Otto when they were lying in state (those two funeral pictures horrify me, because it is like seeing myself dead.)

Were the Wittelsbachs Catholics?  And did Ludwig get his long curley hair from his mother?  Or, was that part of the cosmetics and fashion of the day?

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« Reply #99 on: January 25, 2011, 01:57:00 AM »
Did Ludwig have any children?  Legitimate or otherwise--known or unknown.  Real or legendary?

How could he have legitimate children when he wasn't married? Please do some basic research before you start throwing out wild hypotheses.
I wouldn't be surprised if there even were a few delusional people claiming to be illegitimate descendants of such an enigmatic, yet wholly homosexual character as Ludwig II, but I've never seen any children mentioned.

Were the Wittelsbachs Catholics?

In the 19th century, yes.
Ludwig II's great great grandfather Friedrich Michael, Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, the father of the first King of Bavaria, converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1746.
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« Reply #100 on: January 25, 2011, 09:39:14 AM »
Must say that when I think of a lookalike  to Ludvig ,  I think of his cousin.. Elizabeth !
somehow they look similar... the same  intense, serious look
Were they not soul  mates ?  did nt they love to be in each others company ?

 I feel that when Ludvig was  say  age  20 , he was a sensitive , artistic  young man
 with an ardent  desire to persue art.
( did nt he meet Wagner around the time he was 20  ? )

He seems to have spent his life in artistic  persuits and of course the building of
Schloss Neuschwanstein was his lifes work  .... what an  amazing building and a great legacy to the tortured monarch.

 I feel that without Ludvig the castle would never have been built.
It was money pressures  that sent Ludvig off the rails and his harsh treatment
by the Bavarian government.
Its ironic that the Bavarian government today rake in millions of Euros from tourists who queque
up in their millions each year to visit  Schloss Neuschwanstein

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« Reply #101 on: January 26, 2011, 01:25:11 PM »
Fyoder, the most numerous and oldest branch of the Kuhn family probably comes from the Palatine, and later Alcase-Lorraine.  I'm not sure how or if they relate to the Saxon and Thuringian Kuhns, but, Ludwig's family were the Counts and Dukes from where Kuhns are suppossed to have originally settled?  What a very small world.

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Re: Ludwig II
« Reply #102 on: January 27, 2011, 03:26:31 PM »
Did Ludwig have any children?  Legitimate or otherwise--known or unknown.  Real or legendary?

How could he have legitimate children when he wasn't married? Please do some basic research before you start throwing out wild hypotheses.
I wouldn't be surprised if there even were a few delusional people claiming to be illegitimate descendants of such an enigmatic, yet wholly homosexual character as Ludwig II, but I've never seen any children mentioned.


Agree!! it's impossible that Ludwig could have any kind of children. He never had any serious relationship with any woman (neither wife nor mistress known), only at the time of his engagement with his cousin Sophie but nothing happened really between them. Nothing about to speculate.

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Re: Ludwig II
« Reply #103 on: January 28, 2011, 03:45:55 PM »
Kaiserin Albeta Sissi,

Is Sissi Ludwig's first half cousin?  How is the relationship of first half cousin possible?

I'm suprised Ludwig is so remembered as a builder.  I prefer to think of him as an inventor, a mad tinkerer.  He had this room full of clocks, and loved machines.

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« Reply #104 on: January 29, 2011, 09:18:08 AM »
They were not cousins of first grade but a bit distant, both were related to king Maximilian I of Bavaria, Sissi was his granddaughter and Ludwig was his great grandson, not of  the same wife.
Their relationship was really close and they spent much time together, it seemed that Sissi was the favorite of Ludwig of his cousins. Both loved poretry and nature those common interests made them closer. His death caused Sissi a lot of pain (plus the other familiar tragedies of the same time).