A Right Royal Riddle: Who Am I?

A Gotha Quiz: Who Am I?

By Darren Shelton for the European Royal History Journal.

I was the daughter of a duke and of a princess whose children rarely married outside of the higher nobility. 

 

One of my paternal aunts married high above her station to a man of impeccable lineage and she was considered a force with which to be reckoned.  

 

I was married to a son of king. Although my mother-in-law was held as a claimant to a throne due to her birthright, my children only possess this same right collaterally.  

 

I was born and married before the sweeping changes of the century, but I lived to see advances unimaginable when I was born. 

 

Who am I and who was my husband? The answer will be posted on Wednesday.

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Franz and Isabella.

We are Princess Isabella of Croÿ and her husband Prince Franz of Bavaria, son of King Ludwig III of Bavaria and Queen Maria Theresia (born an Archduchess of Austria, and heiress to the Jacobite claim to the British throne).