Maybe someday they'll be a book about the Edinburgh/Coburg daughters the way Ilana's new book on VMH has been expanded to include her sisters. That would be a real treat! It would also be a way to get some real info out there on Sandra, who otherwise wouldn't support a whole bio. Just an idea.

Anyway, back to Irene.
Apparently the mausoleum at Hemmelmark was once broken into (I don't know when but it seems after Henry & Irene's death). Henry Jr's coffin was stolen and searched for valuables and then tossed into the sea! The police found the (embalmed) body still in the coffin--it had luckily become partially frozen in ice rather than just floating out to sea--and it was reentombed. How horrible.

Apparently because of this, Sigismund's daughter Barbara, who had been adopted by Irene as heir, refused to be buried there and asked instead to be buried at sea near Hemmelmark.