However, this didn't often happen, as can be seen with the following marriages:
a) The impecunious Princess Alice of Battenberg: She married Prince Andreas of
Greece, a union which produced Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. For more details, I refer you to Hugo Vickers' excellent biography.
b) High spirited Princess Elizabeth of
Romania: George II of
Greece, son of King Constantine I of
Greece and Queen Sophie, and his sister, Princess Eleni (Helen), married royal siblings of
Romania,
respectively Princess Elizabeth and Prince Carol, later King. Neither
marriage proved happy and this particular George and Elizabeth had no
children.
3) Wealthy:
"No money, no accent, no play." Attibuted to the Miller
Sisters' dating guidelines:
It
should not have raised eyebrows that Constantine II consented to his
heir, Prince Pavlos, marrying American heiress Marie-Chantal Miller in
1996. After all, she was not the first!
In 1920, Mrs Nancy Leeds, a
twice-married mother, became Princess Anastacia when Prince Christopher
married her. The wealthy widow of the 'Tinplate King' William Leeds,
Nancy
kept the family alive and well while in exile.
These days it is Miller
DFS money (including the rumoured $100 million dowry) that helps keep the crown
princely family in good stead in
London.
A few months before
Nancy
entered the family, Miss Aspasia Manos secretly married the lonely King
Alexander I, who was essentially a hostage in his palace, his family having been forced into
exile.
In reality this was quite a dangerous match for the king as it seemed that
the neutrality of the sovereign was compromised by his choosing amongst a
certain faction to wed.
After his death, the Manos family supported
Aspasia (made a Princess in widowhood) and her daughter, Princess
Alexandra (later Queen to King Peter II of
Yugoslavia), in their wanderings in
Europe.
In 1997, another Manos married Prince Charles-Louis of the French
Orleans dynasty, with Ileana becoming SAR la Duchesse de Chartres.
Prince Michael of
Greece
also married a wealthy Greek.