When it comes to jewels the marriage of Christian X with Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin may have been a better option. Her Russian roots helped to fill the coffers of the Danish Royals. It also made the Danes the closest reigning family relations of the Dutch royals as Alexandrine was a first cousin of Juliana of the Netherlands.
Here are the two sisters
I believe the link is to a photo of Marie 'dOrleans with her first cousin and sister-in-law Isabelle d'Orleans, duchess de Guise and not of Marguerite.
Oh, you are right! Somehow I got them mixed up because someone else has labelled the picture wrong. Anyway, the story about Christian and Marguerite is still true 🙂
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