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    Re: Orders - Off topic Archived Message

    Posted by JohnAF on June 28, 2015, 3:56 am, in reply to "Re: Orders - Off topic"

    Arthur, many thanks for the information. I did wonder if it was something to do with family versus in-laws, but wasn't sure.
    Thank you again.


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    : Grand-Duchess Maria-Teresa and Princess
    : Alexandra (as well as the Grand-Duke and his
    : sons) wear the orange sash (with two thin
    : dark blue stripes at the edges) of the Order
    : of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau:
    :
    : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Gold_Lion_of_the_House_of_Nassau
    :
    : Hereditary Grand-Duchess Stéphanie, Princess
    : Claire and Princess Tessy wear the blue sash
    : with yellow edges of the Civil and Military
    : Order of Merit of Adolph of Nassau:
    :
    : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Adolphe_of_Nassau
    :
    : The difference between the ladies is that
    : Maria-Teresa and Alexandra are the
    : Grand-Duke's wife and daughter
    : (Grand-Duchess Consort and Princess of
    : Nassau by birth), whereas Stéphanie, Claire
    : and Tessy are "only" the in-laws
    : (Princesses of Nassau by marriage)...
    :
    : According to the Wikipedia articles linked
    : above:
    : - the princes (sons and brothers of the
    : heads of the two lines of the House of
    : Nassau, i.e. Luxembourg and the Netherlands)
    : are born knights of the order. In 1984,
    : Queen Beatrix and Grand Duke Jean made an
    : agreement that princesses (daughters of the
    : Heads of the House of Nassau) receive the
    : order at majority age (18). Princess
    : Alexandra of Luxembourg received hers on her
    : 18th birthday on 16 February 2009. And now
    : that King Willem-Alexander of the
    : Netherlands is the head of the Dutch branch,
    : his daughters Catharina-Amalia, Princess of
    : Orange, Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
    : and Princess Ariane of the Netherlands are
    : also entitled to receive it on their 18th
    : birthday.
    : - by statute of the Civil and Military Order
    : of Merit of Adolph of Nassau, princes and
    : princesses of the Grand-Ducal House of
    : Luxembourg are Grand Crosses of the Order by
    : birth, but they don't wear the order
    : decoration until they are 18 years old.
    :
    :
    :


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