Royal Weddings: England's Ruritania
As the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton approaches Michael Bloch tells the story of one of the more unusual dynasties related to the Windsors.
Of all the European royal houses from which Prince William is descended few were more colourful than that of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: William’s five-times great-grandmother was Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who in 1761 became the queen of George III. Tiny, remote and anachronistic, Mecklenburg-Strelitz might have been the model for Ruritania in Anthony Hope’s 1894 adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda.
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