Why Was Prince Bernhard's Parents' Marriage Morganatic?
I am asking about the famous or infamous Prince Bernhard who married into the Dutch Royal family, not his father, also named Bernhard. The son was apparently born a Count of Biesterfeld and only later given the title of Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld. (Possibly this gave him a place in the succession that he initially did not have.) What I don't understand is how his mother, Amgard Von Cramm who was a Baroness from an old noble family with entirely noble lineage for at least several generations on both sides of her family tree was considered an unacceptable non-"ebenburtig" spouse, given that only fourteen years earlier in the famous (I guess for people here!) Lippe Inheritance Case, Bernhard's great-grandmother, Modeste von Unruh, WAS considered an acceptable spouse, even though she was merely part of the untitled nobility.
Did the House of Lippe change its laws, raising its standards after winning the case? I have read that perhaps the issue was that Armgard was a divorcee, but this seems implausible for a Protestant House like the Lippes.
Can anyone explain this? Thanks.
I am asking about the famous or infamous Prince Bernhard who married into the Dutch Royal family, not his father, also named Bernhard. The son was apparently born a Count of Biesterfeld and only later given the title of Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld. (Possibly this gave him a place in the succession that he initially did not have.) What I don't understand is how his mother, Amgard Von Cramm who was a Baroness from an old noble family with entirely noble lineage for at least several generations on both sides of her family tree was considered an unacceptable non-"ebenburtig" spouse, given that only fourteen years earlier in the famous (I guess for people here!) Lippe Inheritance Case, Bernhard's great-grandmother, Modeste von Unruh, WAS considered an acceptable spouse, even though she was merely part of the untitled nobility.
Did the House of Lippe change its laws, raising its standards after winning the case? I have read that perhaps the issue was that Armgard was a divorcee, but this seems implausible for a Protestant House like the Lippes.
Can anyone explain this? Thanks.