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4 unusual facts about Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg


Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg

She was German Kasier Wilhelm II's candidate for a bride for King Alfonso XIII of Spain although he would married Princess Victoria Eugenie, niece of British King Edward VII.

So Marie Antoinette regularly had to sell archaeological findings of her mother, excavated in Austria and Carniola, including Hallstatt Archaeological Site in Vače.

Hallstatt Archaeological Site in Vače

Some of them were sold to museums in Harvard, Oxford and Berlin by Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg, a daughter of the princess who surveyed some excavations.

Marie of Mecklenburg

Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg (1884–1944), daughter of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz



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