Interesting post, you made them seem more like real people than only names in a history book.

I'm interested in the Dutch Royals because I live in the town where Emma met her husband-to-be. It is said that he went looking for a wife late in life and Emma's elder sister was the prospect he wanted to meet. But when the king got out of the carriage in front of the castle building allegedly said sister found him much too old. Emma though must have been a genuinely nice person because purportedly she thought that they couldn't "send the old man away empty-handed". And that's how she became Queen of the Netherlands ;)