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SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - MARRIAGE DIANNA
JUN 9 2008
Although the issue of morganatic marriages were ineligible to ever succeed to their families' respective thrones, some morganauts did go on to achieve dynastic success elsewhere in Europe. The marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, the son of the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, and German-Polish noblewoman Countess Julia von Hauke (created Princess of Battenberg), provided a sovereign prince of Bulgaria and queen consorts for Spain and Sweden as well as (through female descent) the current prince consort of the United Kingdom. Likewise, the marriage of Duke Alexander of Württemberg and Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (created "Countess of Hohenstein") resulted in the House of Teck. That family's most famous member, Mary of Teck, married George V of the United Kingdom, and the present British Royal Family traces descent from her.
Marriages have never been considered morganatic in any part of the United Kingdom. The present British monarch, Elizabeth II, is herself the daughter of a King (George VI) and a commoner (Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, who automatically became Queen-consort on her husband's accession to the throne). All four of Elizabeth II's children have married commoners, with no effect on the order of succession. Wives of British princes hold titles derived from those of their husbands. Camilla, second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, legally holds the title H.R.H. Camilla, Princess of Wales, but chooses to style herself Duchess of Cornwall (derived from one of her husband's other titles) in deference to public feelings about the title's previous holder, the Prince's first wife Diana. It has also been suggested that upon her husband's accession to the throne, the Duchess might take the title "Princess Consort", although as the King's wife she would legally be "Queen Camilla". The use of these lower titles does not denote a morganatic marriage, and are styles only.
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