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Marengo said:Were Sophie's doctors really superior or was it her usual snobbery towards the Dutch (combined with immense grief of course)?
Was it traditional for parents not to attend their own childs funeral? Or just for royal parents? I never heard of that before.
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Thanks for the most informative reply btw.
Queen Sophie never failed in the snobbery department,nor in melo-drama either,Willem III couldn't do any good in her eyes even if he tryed,which he did at times.Hard to say now if her doctors were all that superior really.As there was no cure,at that time,for meningitis the boy would have died still I'm afraid.
No it wasn't a tradition for the parents not to attend their own child's funeral in general,but at the Court of that time it apparently was,
in poor Maurits case anyway.Awfull & unthinkeble now.
Allthough,two decades later,on may 17th 1872,she didn't attend the funeral of her sister-in-law Princess Amalia (42),wife of Hendrik,either,even tho she was very fond of her.