Is not this a sufficient explanation of the term morganatic being applied to marriages where the parties are of unequal rank?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850] Reference

This marriage was morganatic, that is, the lady does not take the name, rank and title of her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Face to Face with Kaiserism] Reference

There is talk of something called a morganatic marriage, which would be sort of a half marriage, using one of his titles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2001] Reference

Hohenfelsen, the morganatic wife of the Grand-Duc Paul, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Regained] Reference

Hochberg, the issue of a morganatic marriage between the grand-duke Charles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

There had been two children of the morganatic marriage, a son and a daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Folly] Reference

She bitterly resented her position as a morganatic wife because of her noble birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV] Reference

Napoleon's generals, and descended by a morganatic marriage from the King of Wurttemburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

Mrs. Fitzherbert was not the sort of woman to give herself up readily to a morganatic connection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

I would love to read her take on Louis XIV's relationship with Madame de Maintenon, his morganatic wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Subsequently she entered into a morganatic marriage and bore a son who, of course, could not be her heir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

Catherine was so besotted with her new lover that she may even have married him in a morganatic marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

And please pardon my poor French spelling -I remember reading a bio of Louie(14)'s second (morganatic) wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [L'Ordre du Saint-Esprit] Reference

Teresa Pola died, and then Napoleon died, and after this Marie Louise and Neipperg were united in a morganatic marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

His Highness the Duke was a widower, or rather, since the death of the reigning Duchess, had contracted a morganatic marriage with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

This application of the word would naturally rise out of the restrictions imposed upon the wife and children of a morganatic marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850] Reference

At first it was announced that the marriage would be morganatic, but Anita refused to accept anything less than the title of princess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Heiress | Edwardian Promenade] Reference

Frau Kati Schratt, later morganatic wife of Emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

I am so glad they don't have morganatic marriages in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference

"The morganatic rule does away with the very idea of bigamy!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Temporal Power] Reference

The same may be said of a slave woman, or of a morganatic wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

I gave away the bride at one of these morganatic marriages, when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Face to Face with Kaiserism] Reference

These morganatic marriages are not, I may note, allowed to the Sunnis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Following the Equator] Reference

There is much misunderstanding in America as to these morganatic marriages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Face to Face with Kaiserism] Reference

So she was a grand duchess, or at least the morganatic wife of a grand duke!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Place of Honeymoons] Reference

The villa now belongs to the King, who has lodged his morganatic wife there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Hours] Reference

Prussia with a daughter of one of these mediatised houses would not be morganatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Face to Face with Kaiserism] Reference

Parisian term which is equivalent to "morganatic marriage," as applied to royal personages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Celibates] Reference

It was the residence for some time of Mrs. Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of George, Prince of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London] Reference

The ceremony, which we call here a morganatic marriage, you have, probably, heard of before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivian Grey] Reference

This may lead one to think that there is something to be said for the woman in morganatic marriages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

Nothing but a morganatic marriage would be possible, and this would deprive his children of the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Live the King!] Reference

I should hate them to get the idea just because of the drawing room, that poor Carolyn was morganatic, or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Betty Across the Water] Reference