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Marged was not born to be queen. Raised as the younger daughter of Iorwerth and married to a Danish Prince, her early life was sheltered and once her brother had assumed the throne she remained very much in the shadows. Following her marriage to Prince Christian she lived in Denmark for three years before returning to Wales to give birth to her first son, Arthur. With the outbreak of war the young family were unable to return to Denmark and as the growing political crisis surrounding Iago grew many politicians began to look to Marged and her sons as alternatives to Iago and his heir Owain. With the death of Owain in 1944 the succession to the Welsh throne fell into doubt. With Iago's rising unpopularity with the Welsh population, and the increase in Republican sentiment it was feared that

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  • Marged of Wales (Welsh History Post Glyndwr)
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  • Marged was not born to be queen. Raised as the younger daughter of Iorwerth and married to a Danish Prince, her early life was sheltered and once her brother had assumed the throne she remained very much in the shadows. Following her marriage to Prince Christian she lived in Denmark for three years before returning to Wales to give birth to her first son, Arthur. With the outbreak of war the young family were unable to return to Denmark and as the growing political crisis surrounding Iago grew many politicians began to look to Marged and her sons as alternatives to Iago and his heir Owain. With the death of Owain in 1944 the succession to the Welsh throne fell into doubt. With Iago's rising unpopularity with the Welsh population, and the increase in Republican sentiment it was feared that
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  • Marged was not born to be queen. Raised as the younger daughter of Iorwerth and married to a Danish Prince, her early life was sheltered and once her brother had assumed the throne she remained very much in the shadows. Following her marriage to Prince Christian she lived in Denmark for three years before returning to Wales to give birth to her first son, Arthur. With the outbreak of war the young family were unable to return to Denmark and as the growing political crisis surrounding Iago grew many politicians began to look to Marged and her sons as alternatives to Iago and his heir Owain. With the death of Owain in 1944 the succession to the Welsh throne fell into doubt. With Iago's rising unpopularity with the Welsh population, and the increase in Republican sentiment it was feared that he would be the last monarch of Wales. In 1947, Iago was forced to name his sister and her sons as his heirs. Chancellor Thomas had been trying to annul the Succession Act which fixed the Welsh succession on the heirs and descendants of Arthur regardless of sex. As of the death of Owain in 1944, the last remaining legal heir to the Welsh throne was Marged's distant cousin, Prince Xavier Dafydd Heinrich Morgannwg (born in Berlin in 1933 and raised in Germany). During the war this was simply unacceptable and would continue to be unacceptable into the post war years. In 1947 Chancellor Thomas succeeded in bullying Iago into putting an Order in Council recognising Marged as his heir and changing the Welsh laws of succession to pure primogeniture regardless of sex.
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