Princess Thyra's Illegitimate Daughter

[Eric_Lowe]

Scandalous ! However I am glad that the daughter lived a peaceful life.

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

Scandalous !

Yes, so surprising that there isn't a scandal, not even a minor one now today, when all the details are known. With the amount of people obsessing about Anna Anderson, I'd think at least some would find the Mystery of Tangegaard worthy of at least some attention.

[Eric_Lowe]

I think the Danes are not naturally inquistive...That is why Alexandra Manley had a much easier time than Diana Spencer, since both of them were royal divorcees.

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

I think the Danes are not naturally inquistive...That is why Alexandra Manley had a much easier time than Diana Spencer, since both of them were royal divorcees.

I think it was pure racism. Alexandra was not the blonde, Aryan godess that Diana was.

[Eric_Lowe]

Not really !!! The Danes loved Alexandra much more than her husband. They were glad she decided to stay in Denmark. Her privacy was respected...

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

Yeah, but they didn't worship her like people did with Diana in the first place.

[Eric_Lowe]

The Scandanavians are very blond. So they like dark haired girls (from Alexandra Manley, Mary Donaldson & her clone Marie). Mett Merrit (Crown Princess of Norway) was very blond too, but they did not go gaga over her here.

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

Mett Merrit (Crown Princess of Norway) was very blond too, but they did not go gaga over her here.

That was because she had a not exactly spotless past and an embarrassing father who kept reminding us of it. She was hardly godess material.

[Eric_Lowe]

Diana did not have a spotless reputation too...From Squiggley, Hewitt (Very let down), Will Carling, The Parkastani doctor & Dodi...Quite a list. In the end nothing to do with hair colour as Diana's hair turn bown like her brother & sisters. She was as blond as Marilyn Monroe & Madonna...Out of a bottle. Thyra also wasn't a blonde I think...nor was he rsister Alexandra (the goddess of many men).

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

Diana did not have a spotless reputation too...From Squiggley, Hewitt (Very let down), Will Carling, The Parkastani doctor & Dodi...Quite a list.

But that was after her fairytale marriage broke down in public. People saw her as the wronged virgin. And when she started to have all these yes actually rather sleazy affairs with older men, many probably interpreted it as a fight of the whore against the madonna, with her humanitarian activities stressing the madonna side.

Diana was a saint - just like the powers that be manufactured them in the Middle Ages! As we know, with a few exceptions, only rich, powerful, high-born, beautiful people became saints.

[Eric_Lowe]

I think the good works that did it for Diana not the blondness. Madonna & Marilyn are good examples of blond earthiness. If you think of the earth goddess, they were too (including Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren & Anita Edberg...).

[Svetabel]

Back to topic, please.

[Kalafrana]

I find it interesting that Thyra was considered marriageable at all after having an illegitimate child. It must have been hushed up very thoroughly indeed.

Just to give a flavour of the views of the time (slightly later, but probably no different), my paternal grandmother was six months pregnant when she married her first husband in 1906, and her family treated her as practically a fallen woman thereafter. Things didn't really improve even after she was widowed. One of her sisters was also pregnant when she marrried, and she and her husband moved to London (from Liverpool) to get away from all the disapproval.

Ann

[Eric_Lowe]

Thyra was a very sweet woman and many men liked her even though she wasn't exactly a beauty (like Alexandra) or brilliant (like Dagmar). When Ernst August fell in love with her, she insisted on telling him the whole story so he could back out if he wanted. To Ernst August's benefit he did not bat an eye and still wanted to marry her.

[GrandDuchessAndrea]

Wow, that's amazing that Ernst August wanted to marry her even though she had already had an affair! That was very honest of Thyra to tell him, the whole story.