1. morganatic - Adjective
2. morganatic - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlthough 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