CPss Antonia ended up the way she did (her health ruined after being interned) because he husband Rupprecht wouldn't conform and was a serious pain to the Nazi party, going all the way back to the Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. Rupprecht & Antonia even educated their children in England and prevented them from becoming members of the Hitler Youth. In order to avoid membership in the Nazi University Student Corps, Rupert's nephew Ludwig withdrew from his university in Germany, and began studies at the University of Budapest. The Bavarian royals actually stood up to the Nazi regime rather than conforming. While Rupprecht escaped the Nazis, his wife, their children and Rupprecht's grandchildren (by his eldest son) paid the price. Mafalda paid the price (dying in agony at Buchenwald) for her father's (King Victor Emmanuel of Italy) falling out with Hitler. In May 1943 Hitler issued the "Decree Concerning Internationally Connected Men" declaring that princes, including Mafalda's husband Philip, could not hold positions in the party, state, or armed forces. The arrest of Mussolini by King Victor Emanuel in July made Phillip's position even more difficult. Hitler believed that Philipp and his family were complicit in Mussolini's downfall. Neither Antonia nor Mafalda can be used as examples of those who 'just went along' but were still ill-treated by Hitler, in my opinion.