You must have heard even in England of what is called a morganatic marriage? |
As this was a morganatic marriage, their five children should not have been eligible for the succession. |
A boarding-school opened by Madame de Maintenon, morganatic wife of Louis XIV, for poor young girls from the nobility. |
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. |
As Julie was not royal, their marriage was considered morganatic, meaning that Julie and their children could not use Alexander's Hessian title. |
So she was a grand duchess, or at least the morganatic wife of a grand duke! |