The couple lived in separate homes.īut Napoleon had his wish: he now had family alliances with two old houses of Europe: Bavaria and Baden. She did not treat her groom very respectfully. Stephanie, meanwhile, thought that now that she was an emperor’s daughter, she should marry a king, not a prince.Įveryone told her that it was she who was marrying up, but the vain 17-year-old girl did not believe it. Prince Carl of Baden was still not exactly pleased, but he budged. And he upgraded Baden from an ‘electorate’ into a ‘grand duchy…’ and gave it more territory. To sweeten the deal even more for Baden, he gave Stephanie a 2,000,000 francs dowry. He adopted Eugene and Stephanie in 1806 so they became the children of an emperor. And they were being offered some minor players. They had expected to marry old blue-bloods.
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