morganatic

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1. morganatic - Adjective

2. morganatic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband.

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Although the issue of morganatic marriages were ineligible to succeed to their families' respective thrones, children of morganatic marriages have gone on to achieve dynastic success elsewhere in Europe. Source: Internet

Margrave Leopold inherited the throne of Baden, despite being born of a morganatic marriage, after all dynastic males of the House of Zähringen died out. Source: Internet

Occasionally, children of morganatic marriages have overcome their non-dynastic origins and succeeded to their family's realms. Source: Internet

Palmer, pg. 288 He finally gave his consent in 1900; however, the marriage was to be morganatic and any children of the marriage would be ineligible to succeed to the throne. Source: Internet

The King later requested the Commonwealth prime ministers be consulted on a compromise plan, in which he would wed Simpson under a morganatic marriage pursuant to which she would not become queen. Source: Internet

The mechanism of the "secret marriage" rendered it unnecessary for France to legislate the morganatic marriage per se. Source: Internet

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