Marriages Between Royalty & Nobility

[Meraude]

When discussing royals marrying nobles, don't forget the marriage between infanta Elena of Spain and Jaime de Marichalar, his father is a Spanish count.

 

[NGalitzine]

I believe it's for the preservation of their social standing. That's also how the European monarchies are dominated with Queen Victoria's bloodline. It all started with preserving the family fortune.

Queen Victoria wasn't as concerned about grand marriages and titles as her continental relations. She certainly allowed her family members to marry people they would not have been allowed to marry had she been a German Empress. Families like Teck, Battenberg, the Campbells of Argyll, the MacDuffs of Fife, etc were perfectly acceptable to her as Queen of GB but would not have been acceptable on the continent. She believed new blood was needed in royal families.

 

[sancakli70]

Crown Prince of luxembourg marries a woman of the Belgian Nobility and the Belgian Crown Prince marries a woman of belgian Nobility too

 

[An Ard Ri]

When discussing royals marrying nobles, don't forget the marriage between infanta Elena of Spain and Jaime de Marichalar, his father is a Spanish count.

Elena's aunt Infanta Pilar also married a Spanish noble,Don Luis Gomez-Acebo,Viscount de la Torre.

 

[sancakli70]

The crownprince of egypt married an afghan princess in 2013,
The last king of irak was engaged to a princess from egypt.

 

[Cris M]

The crownprince of egypt married an afghan princess in 2013,

And that was great. But both were Royals, so no marriage between Royalty and Nobility.

I suppose the Princely Family of Ligne is regarded as Nobility not Royalty.

So, in 1981, Princess Eleonora of Brazil married Prince Michel of Ligne (now, the 14th Prince of Ligne). Later that year, her brother, Prince Antonio of Brazil, married his sister, Princess Christine of Ligne.

This year, the daughter of Prince Antonio and Princess Christine, Princess Amélia of Brazil, will marry Alexander Spearman, who descends from the Spearman Baronets, from Scotland.

 

[SirGyamfi1]

Prince Constantine of Liechtenstein married Countess Marie Kalnokay de Korospatak of the Hungarian nobility.

His sister, Tatjana married Philip Von Lattorf, an untitled nobleman

 

[An Ard Ri]

Charles Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington married Princess Antonia of Prussia in 1977.

 

[Tatiana Maria]

I suppose the Princely Family of Ligne is regarded as Nobility not Royalty.

So, in 1981, Princess Eleonora of Brazil married Prince Michel of Ligne (now, the 14th Prince of Ligne). Later that year, her brother, Prince Antonio of Brazil, married his sister, Princess Christine of Ligne.

Weren't they recognized as equal (royal) by the head of the Brazilian imperial house?

 

[SirGyamfi1]

Weren't they recognized as equal (royal) by the head of the Brazilian imperial house?

I’m sure they were because the Lignes are high nobility and have connections to the ruling families

Weren't they recognized as equal (royal) by the head of the Brazilian imperial house?

They definitely were recognized by the head of the house as equals because the children of that marriage are in the succession apart from the daughter who married the Spearman Baronet.

Perhaps, non-reigning houses never bothered to change their old marriage laws. In order for the heir to inherit the titles, head of house-ship, and fortune, they have to old marriage laws, so they have to search for royal or noble brides. For example, Hereditary Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, son of Princess Benedikte of Denmark, cannot inherit his titles if he marries Carina Axelsson because of the stipulations of his paternal grandfather's will. Prince Pedro Luis of Orleans-Braganza was said to be looking for a potential royal/noble wife for the future before his untimely death last month in accordance with dynastic law. Now it looks like his younger brother Rafael will have to do that eventually.

On the other hand, reigning dynasties, in order to be more revelant in modern society and closer to the people, have allowed for marriages to commoners. Also, many of these reigning families, their marriages and succession rules are based on constitutional approval (e.g. the Netherlands) rather than dynastic law.

I want to address this, the wills of the former ruling dynasties are just that, not house laws and they are simply about inheriting family wealth and those members who don’t marry according to the wills are free to marry whoever they want, they will just have to give up on being the next head of the family and the wealth. That is all.

The more restricting the dynastic house laws (they are not judicial laws but stipulations that no court or church would sanction) the more ridiculous the family appears. British and Irish dynastic families have always chosen their spouses from a wide gene and social pool. So called equal marriage is a Germanic conception. Look at the marriage patterns of those royal houses that are in full vigour - they are not the ones that adhere to outmoded ideas.

It is truly their business if they want to continue to marry within their own social circles, those from those families who married unequally made their choice too. I don’t get why people are complaining? They aren’t taxpayer funded and live their own lives.