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Morganatic
Morganatic meaning
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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Although 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.
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.
Occasionally, children of morganatic marriages have overcome their non-dynastic origins and succeeded to their family's realms.
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.
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.
The mechanism of the "secret marriage" rendered it unnecessary for France to legislate the morganatic marriage per se.
This differs from morganatic marriages, which are considered legally valid.
When the Cabinet refused the morganatic marriage, King Edward decided on his own volition to abdicate.