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Morganatic marriage,
sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a
marriage between people of
unequal social rank,
which in the
context of
royalty or other...
- Hesse-Itter (1661–1676)
Battenberg (1858,
morganatic line.
Mountbatten since 1917) The
Battenberg family are
morganatic descendants in the male-line of the...
- was the
first son of
Margrave Karl
Friederich of
Baden by his second,
morganatic wife,
Louise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg.
Since Luise Karoline was not...
- The
Russian Imperial Family was
split into four main
branches named after the sons of
Emperor Nicholas I: The
Alexandrovichi (descendants of
Emperor Alexander...
-
Elector of Baden, but the only
ruler to use this
title was
married morganatically and so his
spouse did not
share his title. The
rulers of Hesse-K****el...
- was
taken into a new use by
institutionalizing the
morganatic marriage.
Marriage being morganatical prevents the p****age of the husband's
titles and privileges...
-
descent from
Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Morganatic lines from Ernst,
Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
Morganatic line from Bernhard,
Prince of Saxe-Meiningen...
-
second daughter of
Grand Duke
Michael Mikhailovich of
Russia and his
morganatic wife
Countess Sophie of Merenberg. She was a
younger sister of Countess...
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Catherine was a long-time
mistress of Tsar
Alexander II and later, as his
morganatic wife, was
given the
title of
Princess Yurievskaya (Russian: Светлейшая...
- thus
eligible to
inherit the
crown (especially that of Hungary,
where morganatic marriages were
unknown to law) once he
ascended the throne, he was compelled...
