Since we just talked about the Grand Ducal Palace, let me regale you with the tangled web of the Nassau family and their quest for thrones! So there was this big Nassau dynasty🤴👸🤴👸🤴👸, right, and it had two branches. The first one, Ottonian, gave rise to the Orange family, which comprised the monarchs of the Netherlands🇳🇱 (all the Williams we've mentioned so far in the previous stories); the second one, Walramian, gave rise to the family of Nassau-Weilburg (and many other families that I'm afraid one will need a separate blog for to cover🙈), which was primarily German🇩🇪 (or what is known as Germany today, cause, again, territories were exchanged like Christmas gifts). Since we're talking about Luxembourg here, we're focusing on these two ones that are relevant specifically for Luxembourg.
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