| As Julie was not royal, their marriage was considered morganatic, meaning that Julie and their children could not use Alexander's Hessian title. |
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| As this was a morganatic marriage, their five children should not have been eligible for the succession. |
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| In advising Edward VIII against a morganatic marriage to Mrs Simpson he acted with the utmost constitutional propriety. |
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| A morganatic marriage is one between a member of the royal house and a wife not of equal birth, in which the wife does not take her husband's rank. |
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| The royals may be forced to contemplate a quiet, morganatic marriage. |
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| As such, we are interested first in texts that critically examine the platonic pact set between 'Poulou' and his 'little morganatic spouse. |
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| A boarding-school opened by Madame de Maintenon, morganatic wife of Louis XIV, for poor young girls from the nobility. |
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| By solidarity, many ecclesiastics have striven to anchor in the western memory the idea that it was only a despicable morganatic romance. |
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| At 11 15 am on June 28, 1914 in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead by a Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip. |
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| After her death, he arranged a morganatic marriage with Anna in 1757, which made him even more vulnerable to charges of sexual impropriety. |
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| Because of her noble birth, she bitterly resented her position as a morganatic wife. |
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| Her morganatic marriage to the king was to be a well-kept secret for the next three decades. Ms Buckley has written an admirably balanced life with a wealth of biographical detail and great sympathy for her subject. |
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