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unusual facts about morganatic marriage



Alexander Georgievich, 7th Duke of Leuchtenberg

In 1909, Alexander featured in many newspapers after rumors spread that he would enter into a morganatic marriage with American Marjorie Gould, a daughter of wealthy railroad executive George Jay Gould I.

Duchess Therese Petrovna of Oldenburg

Through either the deaths or morganatic marriages of his elder brothers, George was the head of the Russian branch of the House of Beauharnais.

Duke Alexander of Württemberg

In 1835, he married, morganatically, Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812-1841), born in Sângeorgiu de Pădure, Romania, by whom he fathered three children: Claudine, Francis and Amalie.

Duke of Urach

Wilhelm was the son of Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg (1761-1830) and his morganatic wife, Baroness (Freiin) Wilhelmine von Tunderfeldt-Rhodis (1777-1822), whom he married at Coswig on 23 August 1800.

Ellen Franz

This morganatic marriage annoyed the German Emperor Wilhelm II so much that he decided not visit the Schloss Altenstein after his reconstruction in 1889 by work of Georg II because of his aversion towards Helene.

Émile de Girardin

Émile de Girardin married in 1831 Delphine Gay, and after her death in 1855 Guillemette Josephine Brunold, countess von Tieffenbach, morganatic stepdaughter of Prince Frederick of Nassau.

Emperor of Austria

He was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1914; due to his morganatic marriage, his son had no rights to the throne.

Sophie Amalie Lindenov

Her parents were Hans Lindenov, a nobleman of Bavarian origins who had been made a Knight of the Order of the Elephant in 1648 and was a member of the Danish Council of State, and Countess Elisabeth Augusta af Schleswig-Holstein, a morganatic daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway.

The Magnificent Sinner

The Magnificent Sinner is a 1959 film by director Robert Siodmak about the romance between Tsar Alexander II of Russia and the then-schoolgirl Catherine Dolgorukov, who later became his mistress and finally his morganatic wife.


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