Does anyone have any more back information on the couple? Or perhaps, how distantly related they are?
Here you go:
Bagration/Imeretinsky
relationships:
ancestors
Relationship
by marriage
Relationship
About this marriage:
Prince Nugzar's daughter, Princess Anna, a divorced teacher and journalist with two daughters, married Prince
David Bagration of Mukhrani, on 8 February 2009 at the
Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral.
[24] The marriage united the Gruzinsky and Mukhrani branches of the Georgian
royal family, and drew a crowd of 3,000 spectators, officials, and foreign diplomats, as well as extensive coverage by the
Georgian media.
[25]
The dynastic significance of the wedding lay in the fact that, amidst the
turmoil in political partisanship that has roiled Georgia since its independence in 1991,
Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia publicly called for
restoration of the monarchy as a path toward national unity in October 2007.
[26] Although this led some politicians and parties to entertain the notion of a Georgian
constitutional monarchy, competition arose among the old dynasty's princes and supporters, as historians and
jurists debated which Bagrationi has the strongest hereditary right to a throne that has been vacant for two centuries.
[25] Although some
Georgian monarchists support the Gruzinsky branch's claim, others support that of the
re-patriated Mukhrani branch.
[26] Both branches descend in unbroken, legitimate male line from the
medieval kings of Georgia down to
Constantine II of Georgia who died in 1505.
Whereas the Bagration-Mukhrani were a
cadet branch of the former Royal House of
Kartli, they became the
genealogically seniormost line of the Bagrationi family in the early 20th century: yet the elder branch had lost the rule of Kartli by 1724.
Meanwhile, the Bagration-Gruzinsky line, although junior to the Princes of Mukhrani genealogically, reigned over the kingdom of
Kakheti, re-united the two realms in the kingdom of
Kartli-Kakheti in 1762, and did not lose sovereignty until Russian annexation in 1800.
[27]
The bridegroom is the only member of his branch who retains Georgian citizenship and residence since the death of his father,
Prince George Bagration-Mukhrani in 2008.
[27] Aside from his unmarried elder brother, Prince David is the
heir male of the
Bagrationi family, while the bride's father is the most senior descendant of the last Bagrationi to reign over the
united kingdom of Georgia. Since Nugzar and Princes Peter and Eugene Bagrationi-Gruzinsky are the last patrilineal males descended from King George XIII, and all three were born before 1950, their branch verges on extinction. But the marriage between Nugzar Gruzinsky's heiress and the Mukhrani heir resolves their rivalry for the claim to the throne, which has divided Georgian monarchists.
[27] A son born of this marriage is apt to eventually become both the
heir male of the House of Bagrationi and the
heir general of George XIII of Georgia.
I hope that Patriarch Ilia II get well soon. Still it is odd that he was unable to officiate.
So perhaps all the reports were wrong.
) like I originally imagined they would.
