! my grand-grand-grand mother !

(she lived in the very South of Germany)

I

    (;- know her only from the photo ;-)  
a

(;- (;- peasant-class-heroine ;-) ;-)

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(Scottish)
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(Irish)
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(Irish)
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(Russian)
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(Russian)
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(US-American)

    (where 'neoconservative' 'America' speaks about  'Old Europe' one has to be aware that 'Old Europe' is the very hart of 'America's identity')
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(US-American)
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(Dutch)
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(Danish)
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(English)
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(English)
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(French-Canadian)
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      (-; British very British and German all at once ;-)       
    (a wannabe  peasant heroine it seems,  in real the Imperatrix  of the vastest empire ever existing beyond Dschingis Khan's and the Soviet Union)
"von Hannover - von Sachse Coburg Gotha - von Hesse - von Teck - von Hohenlohe"
the "British" Royal Family is "German" actually, very, very German, from head to toe, did you know that?

    the Imperatrix and a close relative the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna
        Victoria, Albert, Alexandra, Nicolaus
    (-; somehow an incestuous rendez-vous galant - a rendez-vous galant incestuously somehow ;-)   
   
              (-; Russian very Russian and German all at once ;-)               
                         
                        (;- ? Imperatrix or just Beatrix ? ;-)                      
                    (-; Dutch very Dutch and German all at once ;-)              

      for me I mean personally ...  when I see Queen Beatrix    

... ja dann erwacht die alte Zeit die längst entschwunden ...

(;- miss her in her capacity as Queen of the Netherlands and I miss her deceased husband - whom I definitely don't miss is her deceased father - but to be honest: Who has parents to choose ;-)

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