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Berlin-Bob
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Hi Waralan,
And secondly why did the Europeans intermarry so much?
presumably you mean European royalty ??
That is an easy question: Power !!
I'm sure conquest, whether by armies or by marriage beds caused the size of many lands to increase 
And many royal marriages were simply political alliances, whether the marriage partners wanted to or not.
(If they happened to love each other, that was just an added bonus)
By making alliances with other royal families, each family was strengthening their own position by binding potential allies for future conflicts.
It's possible that a bit of "keeping up with the Joneses" was also there:
"We only consort with the likes of Us, and never with Our inferiors"
which means, unless you consider incest, you run out of suitable marriage partners pretty quick.
Bob
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Sylviaann
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Edward V11 married Princess Alexander of Denmark
Isn't the Queen of Spain a Danish princess?
They all married one another and were nearly all related to one another anyway.
I believe Queen Victoria's children all either married into another royal family or they were sent to be kings of other countries even the tzar of Russia.
Keep it in the family, thats what they said.
Sylviaann
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukNorfolk: Gooch, Loveday, Lake, Betts Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner Hampshire: Laws, Burrows Kent: Beer Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston |
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meles
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why did the Europeans intermarry so much?
They weren't going to marry commoners! After a few generations, they were all inter-related. Some rather too close for comfort - hence the problems with the Russian royal family.
Mind you, if you see some of the commoners that the English royal family has married in recent times, you wonder if they were not right in the past... 
meles
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Little Nell
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Yes it did.
Frederick V of Denmark is actually the 5 x gt grandfather of the present Queen.
Frederick's SON Frederick (by his second wife, not George II's daughter) had three children. His daughter Louise Charlotte married William of Hesse-Cassel ( a German prince). Their daughter Louise of Hesse Cassell was the mother of Princess Alexandra of Denmark who married Edward VII. This Louise was also the mother of Dagmar who married Tsar Alexander III of Russia (and was the mother of Tsar Nicolas II, )and the mother of the first Oldenburg King of Greece.
Louise daughter of Frederick V married Charles of Hesse Cassel (sound familiar?). Their daughter Louise Caroline married Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein and was the mother of King Christian IX of Denmark, husband of Louise of Hesse Cassell above.
Someone did say that they intermarried!
Nell
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