I'm not numbering them, as I don't know who to place where, but:|
-Empress Dona: a totally selfish little fundie prig, notoriously stupid (once asking a harem eunich attendant if his father had been a eunich as well!), treated her mother in law like dirt (when, without said mother-in-law's support she would never have married William, not to mention the fact that her in-laws were good friends of her parents), and once told her sister-in-law, Sophie, that she was going to Hell for converting to Eastern Orthodoxy. HOWEVER, I do feel sympathy for her when it comes to the suicide of her youngest son, Joachim-that had to be rough.
-King Alfonso XIII: I will give him major props for attempting to seriously help the Imperial Family after the Russian Revolution, especially as Nicholas's closer friends and relations abandoned him (George V, I'm looking in YOUR direction!). But the way he treated his wife, Ena, was just inexcusable. He KNEW when he married her that she was a potential hemophillia carrier-he was warned about it, and didn't care. Until his eldest son almost bled to death when he was circumcised as a baby, and THEN he started blaming poor Ena. Screwed around on her as well.
-King Constantine II of Greece: fascist sympathies, meddling in politics when he didn't know any better, and whining about not having a throne. Boohoo, my heart is breaking, it really is.
-Queen Elisabetta of Greece: (nee of Roumania). Total nightmare, flirted with her sister's husband when said sister was recovering after giving birth. Treated everyone around her like filth-there's not a single good word I can say for her.
-King Karol II of Roumania: "I want to be King-no wait, I want to abdicate-no, now I want to be King again! No, wait, I changed my mind!" Deserted his post during WWI to marry a local girl, then had the marriage annulled and treated his former wife and son like crap. Whatever you think of Paul Lambrino, that was just unforgivable. Treated his second wife the same way. Divorced her and eloped with his mistress, abdicating his position as heir. When his father died and his son became King, he changed his mind and came back, and overthrew his own son-only to AGAIN abdicate a few years later. Make up your mind, jackass! Married off his youngest sister to a man she hardly knew (Although I think Anton seemed like a decent guy, he and Ileana were never in love, from what I gather), then had her kicked out of the country because her husband was a foreigner-the same guy HE made her marry!
-Grand Duchess Maria Pavelovna, the elder: craven opportunist who refused to convert to Orthodoxy...until she found out her son couldn't inherit the throne unless she did so. Hooboy, can we say hypocrite? Greedy, selfish, and generally unpleasant.
-Crown Prince Djordje of Serbia: most likely a sociopath. Was forced to renounce his rights to the throne after he kicked his valet to death. Tried to drown his cousin, Prince Paul, and used to shoot blanks at his feet to make him jump. He once was driving a car with his younger brother, the future Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and jumped out at the last minute. The car went into a ditch and Alexander was injured.
-Kaiser Wilhelm II: while I DO find him entertaining, I think the way he treated his mother and father was simply disgusting. Practically ripped the crown from his dying father's head and put his mother under virtual house arrest to make sure none of his father's papers or diaries were released-did the same thing when his mother died. He CLAIMED he was only trying to prevent important state papers from getting out, but that was bull-he just wanted to make sure no one realized from their diaries what a jackass he was. Blamed his sister, Sophie, for the poor health of his son Joachim, because she converted to Orthodoxy, the religion of her adopted country, and banished her from Germany.
-Prince Fritz Carl of Prussia: the father of Princess Louise of Prussia, later the Duchess of Connaught, he reportedly boxed his wife's ears so bad when Louise was born that she had hearing problems for the rest of her life. Apparently, he was pissed that his wife had given birth to a third daughter. He was notoriously cruel and despotic.
-King Leopold II of Belgium: a hateful, cruel despot who was responsible for untold amounts of suffering and brutality in Africa.
