Prince Albert of Saxony, the last surviving male-line grandson of the last King of Saxony, has
died in Munich at the age of 77, less than three months after his brother Maria Emanuel who had been the last undisputed head of the family. In recent years there has been some controversy over the succession to the Saxon throne, which my friend
Arturo Beéche explains in detail at Eurohistory. This blog, like Mr. Beéche's, supports the late Maria Emanuel's adoption of his nephew Alexander (son of Princess Maria Anna and Lebanese aristocrat Robert de Afif and himself married to Princess Gisela of Bavaria) as heir (accepted by the entire family in 1997, though some members including Albert subsequently reneged on the agreement) and so hails him as Margrave of Meissen and rightful King Alexander I of Saxony.
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2 comments:
Requiem aeterna dona eis, Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
I feel sad for this great house.
@Mr. Harvey: I guess there´s some fertility problem asssociated to the House of Wettin. Do you know any research about it?
I don't think there is any particular fertility problem. Previous generations of Wettins had plenty of sons. It's a combination of bad luck and morganatic marriages that the royal house is smaller than it used to be.
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