Amagerpigen
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« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2010, 09:59:14 PM » |
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Or it's the other way around Ms. Sunshine  Well, she was already three months pregnant when they announced the pregnancy, and they became engaged on Christmas Day (according to what I heard) which would mean she was roughly two months along then... BUT, I do think that this engagement was inevitable at around this point anyway. They've been together fairly long, and she's getting up in age a bit. I don't mind the pregnancy before the religious wedding. For how much I appreciate Nathalie's down-to-earth-ness in mucking her own stables from time to time, and not being hugely on the royal scene, it also means that the baby before the religious wedding is not as big a PR deal as it would be for, say, Victoria and Daniel.  |
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« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2010, 09:59:14 PM » |
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Maria
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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2010, 10:38:58 PM » |
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Or it's the other way around Ms. Sunshine Well, she was already three months pregnant when they announced the pregnancy, and they became engaged on Christmas Day (according to what I heard) which would mean she was roughly two months along then... My point was this is hardly unusual for people their age. At a certain time I'm sure they knew that they would stay together so the whole "engagement and wedding thing" is really something that can come at any time, once they've decided to be together. I hardly doubt this was a whoops-baby resulting in a shotgun engagement and wedding, in the sense that they wouldn't have gotten engaged or married if she wasn't pregnant. |
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2010, 11:11:38 PM » |
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ITA Maria. They were living together for awhile before she got pregnant IMRIC. I'm sure it was pretty much known to everyone that they were going to get married one day. I can't see Benedikte and Richard being okay with their children allowing just anyone to move into Berleberg with them. They seem fairly old fashioned.
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« Reply #18 on: March 26, 2010, 12:07:12 AM » |
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i dont think she's that old.. i mean Moshy was engaged 'officially' when she was 31 in October of that year (2003?) she promptly turned 32 in Feb and got married in May, so she can't gloat too much. if anything Nathalie is ahead as she's having a baby younger than Moshy  |
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Cece
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« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2010, 02:41:43 AM » |
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I agree, Starlight, Nathalie isn't old. 34 is young and congratulations to the couple on the empending birth and their new family life.
I don't think Benedikte and Richard are particularly old school when it comes to the personal lives of their adult children. Live and let live, love them and keep them as close as the 'kids' can handle.
Dignity is often mistaken as having to be wrapped in virtue and Victorian ideas of purity. Dignity is actually reacting with class to all of the ways life is carried out, including the unexpected but happy news of a pregnancy between two loving people, whether they are married or not. Anglo-saxon uptightedness is fortunately not a big trait amongst continental Europeans, no matter their social class.
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Cara
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« Reply #20 on: March 26, 2010, 08:49:58 AM » |
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sure. they may have tied the knot at some point a la carina and gustav...
remains that she was pregnant before the engagement and civil wedding. which makes it look like exactly like a shotgun wedding so as to avoid the humiliation of having a child born out of wedlock. that's not something that's encouraged in those circles.
the various announcements were carefully managed PR wise. first the engagement announcement. then when the pregnancy cannot be hidden anymore they admit announce that she is 6 months pregnant and got secretly discreetly married after the engagement.
i wonder how carina feels about this.
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« Reply #21 on: March 26, 2010, 09:12:58 AM » |
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remains that she was pregnant before the engagement and civil wedding. which makes it look like exactly like a shotgun wedding so as to avoid the humiliation of having a child born out of wedlock. that's not something that's encouraged in those circles.
It looks that way, if one wants to see it like that, I think. To me it looks like the life of many other women her age - whether the child or that marrige comes first, is 50/50 among modern, young women in northern Europe, I think. Natalie seems to have always been living life as normal as she could - this is normal life. |
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« Reply #22 on: March 26, 2010, 09:32:19 AM » |
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It’s 2010  .….. shotgun?  ……archaic verbiage  I think, Nathalie is obviously part of this century,  and more the rule than the exception! lupina |
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« Reply #23 on: March 26, 2010, 10:49:31 AM » |
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My, my, things happen when you're away for a week  Great for N &A. A baby...the best thing in the world, imo. But I do feel sorry for big brother and Carina. I wish they would just go ahead and do the same...testament or not! |
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« Reply #24 on: March 26, 2010, 10:58:05 AM » |
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gustav and carina could have a child out of wedlock. but i don't think that that child would not have any rights on the estate.
it could also be that they tried and it didn't work.
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« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2010, 01:28:06 PM » |
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Read a bit in Billed bladet. Apparently they aren't married yet so that information is wrong. It sounds to me a bit like they've planned the baby so it fits with future riding competions because BB writes that the baby comes at a good time for her carrer |
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« Reply #27 on: July 31, 2010, 01:02:41 AM » |
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You are right Cece, Nathalie looks very happy and content. A  for finding the pic. But really though?  Konstantin (okay) Gustav Heinrich (JesusMaria and all the Angels in heaven) Richard (fathers name) Gustav Heinrich...what on earth....what good German names  holy crap. Why not Wilhelm, Aloysius, Eberhard, Meinrad, Friedhelm, Theobald, Sigmund....  oh, my |
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Cece
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« Reply #28 on: July 31, 2010, 01:13:14 AM » |
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Hehe, yes. It's an über-Deutsch series of names, eh? Jawohl!  - thanks, Peeds! |
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Maria
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« Reply #29 on: July 31, 2010, 01:16:47 AM » |
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I always though Gustav (or Gustaf) was a nod to their Swedish background  Anyway I LOVE that name. If I ever end up having another boy I think I might insist he'll be a Gustaf |
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