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What does morganatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Designating a marriage (or the wife involved) between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank, often having various legal repercussions (typically that such a wife has no claim on the husband's possessions or title). It was not an aspect of English law, but was common in other royal houses, especially in Germany.
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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!

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