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This category lists those members of European royal families that were born a prince or princess, only to be disinherited (i.e. been stripped of their titles, fortune, etc.) for various reasons, often due to a morganatic marriage. Frequently, their titles were replaced with a lesser style.
Count Ingolf of Rosenborg RE (born 17 February 1940) is a Danish count and former prince.Born Prince Ingolf of Denmark (Danish: Prins Ingolf Christian Frederik Knud Harald Gorm Gustav Viggo Valdemar Aage til Danmark), he appeared likely to some day become king until the constitution was changed in 1953 to allow females to inherit the crown, placing his branch of the dynasty behind that of his ...
The history of the Count of Rosenborg title is closely tied to the Danish royal family's regulations on dynastic marriages and succession rights. In the event that a member of the Danish royal family enters into a marriage without the explicit permission of the sovereign, that person renounces his or her own right of succession and that of his ...
Disinherited European royalty ... Europe royal family templates (1 C, 24 P) G. House of Grimaldi (15 C, 105 P) H. Family of Henry VIII (2 C) L. House of Liechtenstein ...
The House of Urach is a morganatic cadet branch of the formerly royal House of Württemberg.Although the Württemberg dynasty was one of many reigning over small realms in Germany into the 20th century, and despite the fact that marital mésalliances in these dynasties usually disinherited the descendants thereof, the Dukes of Urach unusually managed to elicit consideration for candidacy for ...
Often, alliances could be created between countries or strengthened within a country through intermarriage of two royal families. On the other hand, occasionally a member of a royal family married a commoner simply due to romantic feelings or physical attraction, and possibly to endear themselves to the general population by establishing that ...
The couple wed at St Sophia's Cathedral in London in a ceremony attended by many European royal family members. The couple has four children. Carfax2/Wikimedia Commons.
European royal families (45 C, 10 P) ... Battenberg family (4 C, 24 P) Belgian royalty ... Disinherited European royalty (2 C, 32 P) E.