But there was still no mention of her father. The 19th century search stopped there, as Tauffkirchen swiftly asked for all his enquiries, and the discovery of an actress, to be kept quiet. Having embarked upon a hunt for French aristocracy, it now seemed that we were on the trail of a feckless German father. We had to find out the hidden identity of Caroline's father.
Marriage certificates can sometimes provide clues about the paternity of a relative, as traditionally they mention the names and professions of the fathers of the bride and groom. We discovered from the nobility register that Charles and Caroline de Pfeffel were married in a small provincial Bavarian town called Augsburg in In Augsburg, we met Dr Naimer of the Augsburg archives, who showed Boris intriguing microfilm records of Charles and Caroline's wedding in The record revealed that they married in front of VIP guests in the private chapel of the Bishop's Palace in Augsburg.
This was highly unusual. It was also noted on the register that the Bishop mysteriously retained all records of the marriage. The record also revealed that Caroline was five months pregnant at her wedding, and that there was absolutely no mention of her father.
Dr Naimer went back to the original record book as opposed to the microfilm to double check the details for the wedding of Charles and Caroline. Where possible it is always helpful to go back to original hard copy records to check whether additional information about someone has been added at a later date.
In Boris's case, by checking the original hard copy, Dr Naimer discovered that someone had added a simple comment in pencil.
It stated that Caroline was the natural illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul von Wurttemberg! The Wurttemburg royal family files are held at the Stuttgart archive. In some cases the descendents of the Royal Houses may have private archives relating to their ancestors. But local archives should have some idea of where royal files are kept if they are not stored within their own buildings. With the help of Dr Keyler from the Archive, we found surprisingly detailed files that explicitly connected Caroline to her father, Prince Paul.
One file revealed that Caroline had actually lived with Prince Paul. Another showed that Prince Paul's brother, the King of Wurttemberg, was a supportive and loving uncle. Boris discovers that Caroline had lived with Prince Paul and received silver from the King.
Amongst the papers, Boris also came across details of a gift that the King gave to Caroline: a collection of silver. When we compared the inventory of silver in the file to a photograph of the Granny Butter's 'de Pfeffel silver', we realised that it matched. So Granny Butter was the proud owner of aristocratic silver, but German rather than French. The silver was sold by Boris' grandparents many years ago. Now that we had identified Caroline's father, and established some of the reasons for her highly unusual wedding, we wanted to push back even further along her aristocratic family line.
To find out more about King Friedrich, we visited the beautiful ancestral home of the Kings of Wurttemberg in Ludwigsburg, now owned by the German state see Related Links. You can check the facts in Wikipedia.
Note: Teresa Norman incorrectly says that Boris means "to fight". There is another name in both Russian and Bulgarian that has this ethymology: "Borislav". Borislav means "one who fights for glory" - it comes from the verb "borya" which means "to fight" in Bulgarian and other slavic languages "slavah" means glory. Because of historical reasons including Russia becoming a Christian nation Boris became a very popular name in Russia and many slavic countries.
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