Don't know where to post this,so decided here...
Just watched on History Channel an interesting documentary in which Karoline von Rottenburg,illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul von Württemberg(1785-1852) with actress Friederike Porth(1776-1860),was frequently mentioned...she was living with her fatherPaul in Paris untill 1829 when she left him because he wanted to marry her to someone she didn't like...so,she then came to Stuttgart and asked her uncle King Wilhelm I of Württemberg for financial support and he granted it with some silver which he also gave her...in 1836 she married for love with Karl Maximilian Friedrich Hubert,Freihher von Pfeffel(1811-1890),son of Christian Humbert,Freiherr von Pfeffel and Caroline,Baroness von Tettenborn in the chapel of Augsburg...the wedding was performed by the Bishop of Augsburg himself while Prime-Minister of Württemberg and Mayor of Augsburg were acted as witnesses...pretty important for an illegitimate daughter who was pregnant for 5 months when she married and 6 years older then her husband...It seems that she was acknowledged by the legitimate family...
Their grand-daughter Freiin Marie Louise von Pfeffel,daughter of their son Humbert,Freiherr von Pfeffel and Helene von Riviere,settled in Britain forgetting about the roots of her family and her descendants,not knowing for it's origin and their ancestry,sold the family silver,which was a gift from King Wilhelm,for a trip to Australia...
It is also interesting to note that this Karoline Adelheid Pauline von Rottenburg,illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul von Württemberg,is a direct ancestor of Boris Johnson,Mayor of London,as well as many other noble families,the most notable being Princes von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and Counts von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos...
Sorry for the bump,just wanted to share this story with you...