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Afterward he lawfully married a woman of royal birth who was known as Queen Adelaide. There is an interesting story which tells how Queen Victoria came to be born because her father, the Duke of Kent, was practically forced to give up a morganatic union which he greatly preferred to a marriage arranged for him by Parliament.
"For know that I was once morganatic or whatever you call it king of the cannibal isles, or of a paradise of a Polynesian isle at any rate. 'By a purple wave on an opal beach in the hush of the Mahim woods," he hummed carelessly, in conclusion, and swung off from his horse.
Would that some of our human friends were as unflagging in their affections as the faithful Roger! Her reign as morganatic queen was remarkable for several scientific inventions of great utility notably the "pushfast," a machine designed exclusively for the fixing of leather buttons in church hassocks; also Dr.
Well, I imagine that Austria will not grieve much though she may be mad over the loss of a none too popular crown prince, whose morganatic wife could never be crowned, whose children cannot inherit, and who could only have kept the throne warm for a while for the man who now steps into line a little sooner than he would have had this not happened.
I replied with severe irony that I was not aware what foreign potentate was then traveling incognito in the Sierras of California, but that when his royal highness was pleased to inform me, I should be glad to introduce him properly. "Until then," I added, "I fear the acquaintance must be Morganatic." "You're only jealous of him," she said pertly. "Look at May she is completely fascinated.
It is quite likely, however, that the queen objected to the associations of the place, and did not care to be reminded of the time when her uncle had lived there so long in a morganatic state of marriage.
The Ambassador lived in the rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, in a mansion formerly belonging to the Marchioness of Montesson, widow of the Duke of Orleans, to whom this lady had been united by a morganatic marriage. Great preparations had been made with extraordinary magnificence.
Prince Karl of Auersperg offers you morganatic marriage, and he thinks that he is honoring you." "But do you, John, think that he is honoring me?" "Although you would probably be a mere countess and not a princess, your position nevertheless would be great in most continental eyes, far grander than if you were to marry some obscure republican." "You haven't answered me.
"If it were some decent morganatic affair I wouldn't say; but he must have been a fool to throw away thousands on a woman like that. At the end it was sheer blackmail; but it's something that the old ass didn't get it out of the taxpayers. He could only get it out of the Yank, and there you are." The Rev. Thomas Twyford had risen to his feet.
"It is regrettable," I consoled; "but you have no chance for a legitimate, even a morganatic alliance with the young Grand Duke. I consider their entire attitude toward you utterly unfair. In view of your understanding with him, you are most certainly entitled to adequate recompense from his house.
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