History Huh?: King Othon Gets Divorced?

I was reading here that when Princess Anna of Prussia - OTL landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, and one-time love interest of Emperor Franz Josef - was around 15yo, she attracted the attention of King Othon of Greece, who wished to marry her.

And then I thought, hold up. 15yo? That would put it in 1851, by which time Othon was already married to Amalie of Oldenburg since shortly after Anna was born! Then I thought, maybe they got their Greek kings mixed up (that they meant Georgios I), since they talk about her having to convert (presumably to Orthodoxy), yet neither Othon nor Amalie ever converted.

So, Georgios is excluded on the grounds of him being too young in 1851 (he'd have been 6yo - an age when most boys have a mounting dislike of girls), and Othon is unavailable since he's already married. I've never read (and I'll admit, I haven't read widely on Othon, but it would surely have gotten a mention where the whole Greek debacle of the 1850s and 1860s was covered? But not even wikipedia mentions this in the article on Anna) that divorce was considered.

My question then is this, is the article talking a load of nonsense? Or was the divorce actually considered? And what would the ramifications of the divorce have been?
 
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