AHC: The Blood of Jamie the Rover

Also Franz of Bavaria is Catholic, and thus marrying him would have caused Elizabeth to forfeit her claim to the throne under the then-active laws of succession. I don't think that anyone would have been prepared to change them at that point just so Elizabeth could marry a landless German (especially less than a decade after WWII).

Hell, Philip was a landless Greek and there was concern in the capital because of his sisters that were married to landless Germans (some of whom were Elizabeth's own cousins - the grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt and Baden, the duke of Brunswick-Hannover, the prince of Hohenlohe)) who were Protestant.
 
I'm reading on Count Roehenstart, namely of his brief stint in Russian court, where he was kinda sorta favorite of Alexander I wife.

So... what if he takes the offer and becomes naturalized in Russia. Flash forward anything else minus genealogical curiosity in the ranks of Russian naturalized nobles going as OTL, the family may end up becoming "emigres with title", and marry into British nobility. That's the best I've got here.

So I'm wondering. If Count Roehanstart doesn't muck up his chances, and winds up married into the Russian nobility, would a kid (did Marianna have any kids OTL, I can't seem to find any) of theirs be considered eligible to marry someone like Prince Oldenburgski?
 
I've got an interesting question. Louise of Stolberg (widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie) was summoned to Paris by Napoléon to answer if she'd ever had a child by the pretender. She confessed that she had not. But then there's another account of a Doctor Beaton, who was on his way to the port at Livorno, when his assistance was sought by someone for a "great lady" in distress (in labour) at Santa Rosalia Convent. When he arrived, the lady's "distress" had passed, although he caught a glimpse of her, wearing a mask, while he was inspecting the infant or something. It was only after he left that he realized that the masked lady was Luise.

Napoléon clearly had heard this rumour. Plus, Count Roehanstart's dad was grand aumonier to Empress Josèphine (at least, I think he was. I could have a Rohan cleric from the wrong branch of the family). Is it possible that Josèphine could arrange a marriage between Roehanstart and one of her Beauharnais/Tascher de la Pagerie relatives?
 
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