0 A morganatic marriage is one in which one partner is of higher social rank, and the other cannot claim this partner's title or possessions or pass them to their children:
There is no such thing as what is called a morganatic marriage known to our law.
They represent a morganatic marriage between military and civil aviation—a union which, in my view, should never have taken place.
In these days we find that a morganatic political mésalliance is without principle and is despised.
It was a morganatic union and was kept secret while her father lived.
As this marriage was also deemed morganatic, she was not allowed to share her husband's titles and rank.
Their view was the marriage had not been morganatic originally and that the 1702 agreement had not made it morganatic either.
The marriage of their parents was considered morganatic.
However, the marriage was to be morganatic and any children that they were to have would be ineligible to succeed to the throne.
