Catching up after work, seeing some crazy stuff about House of Orange, and the Netherlands Royals being toasted for the Dominion VM's.

So did you know that Hitler's Grandmother was an Orange?

Anna Pavlovna was born on 18 January 1795 as the daughter of Paul I of Russia and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg

https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/anna-pavlovna-of-russia/princesses-orange-anna-pavlovna-russia/

Maria Feodorovna was born in October 1759, and in 1776 she married Pavel Petrovich Romanov.

If the Romanov name sounds familiar, its because he was also known as Tsar Paul I, Emperor of Russia.

Maria also had another name, Duchess Sophie Dorothea of W?rttemberg, and later The Dowager Empress of Russia.

She changed her name when she converted to the Russian Orthodox Church. Dorothea is a name I've heard before.

They had, by all accounts, a very close and loving relationship, which resulted in no less than 10 children, one of whom, was Anna Pavlovna of Russia.

Now she married Prince of Orange, who would later become King William II of the Netherlands. Apparently the marriage was unhappy, mainly due to his unusual sexual proclivities, and they lived separated for long periods of time.

Never the less, they had 5 children, the last in 1824.

Maria Schicklgruber was 42 when she supposedly had a child she called Alois, on 7 June 1837.

Now there is speculation that she was the mistress of a Rothschild, but I suspect that after 40 years a peasant, she was left "unlovely", both by appearance, and disposition, so I think that this is most unlikely.

Another curious fact is that historian Werner Maser claims that in 1876, Franz Schicklgruber, the administrator of Alois's mother's estate, transferred a large sum of money (230 gulden) to Alois.

So how did a lowly peasant woman end up with a child, and a considerable fortune, so late in her erstwhile unlucky life?

Could it be, that instead of conceiving the child, she adopted the babe, and was provided with a stipend to provide a comfortable life for the child?

Who could afford such a thing, and with gulden being the cash of aristocracy, is it possible that the parents were, in fact, aristocrats? And why would they give the child to a devout and earnest German woman?

Why was the Child named Alois?

Apparently the German custom was to name the child after the fathers father, so is there another Alois somewhere in the sands of time, that we can identify as the grandfather?

Alois is an unusual name, it means "famous warrior". In Latin it's Luigi. In English its Lewis, and in French it's Louis……

Louis?

Is there an aristocrat out there somewhere who's father is called Louis……..?

Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 - 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. His fathers name was Louis de France, and later Louis, Dauphin of France.

It was during his second exile, (they had short, chaotic reigns), that Charles X decided to tour to Austria and the Mediterranean coast, where he caught cholera and died on 6 November 1836.

Interestingly enough this is where Anna Pavlovna of Russia was when away from her husband, and the huge balls they would host would have them travelling for miles to attend.

Is it possible that the Bourbon and the romanov met in wild embrace, late in 1836, shortly before he died?

Is it possible that the child was adopted to decent woman in Germany, because the grandmother Duchess Sophie Dorothea of W?rttemberg, was also German?

Is it possible that Alois Hitler was the illegitimate child of a French King and Russian romanov princess?

Is it possible that Hitlers daughter, was called Angela Dorothea Merkel after her Great Grandmother, Duchess Sophie Dorothea?