Everyone has long known that a traditional marriage is a marriage in which a husband and wife not only live together, raise their children and have a common household, but also do not commit betrayal in relation to each other. It doesn’t matter if such a marriage is registered or not. The main thing is that two people are satisfied with the form of existence in which they live. A happy marriage is a marriage where everyone is happy equally. But are these criteria applicable to morganatic marriage? Let's try to figure it out.
First you need to find out, and what is a morganatic marriage? Morgan marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman who has a different social status, in which one of the spouses does not increase their low social status upon marriage.
There are a great many examples of such marriages. However, it is worth remembering that the concept of morganatic marriage applied only to the upper classes. So, for example, in Russia there was a Law on the succession to the Russian Empire, according to which a person who had the imperial name, when entering into such a marriage, could no longer occupy the throne, as well as all his descendants. The wedding of Empress Catherine II and the Adjutant General Potemkin in 1775, as well as the wedding of Emperor Alexander II and Catherine Mikhailovna Yurievskaya (Dolgorukova), which took place on July 6, 1880, can be considered an example of an morganatic marriage. But it was a long time ago.
In the modern world, morganatic marriage is not so rare. Let us recall at least the wedding of the Japanese princess Sayako with the commoner Yoshiki Kuroda, which took place in 2005. The punishment of the princess for her inconsistency with monarchical laws was the deprivation of her title of princess. Moreover, not only she, but her children will no longer be able to sit in the imperial chair of Japan.
For the first time, the concept of morganatic marriage appeared in German-speaking countries and in the Russian Empire in the 17th and 19th centuries. At that time, noble persons and members of their families could marry only with equal titled persons. If this did not happen, then they lost the right to the throne’s legacy. To solve this problem, many monarchs chose an equal person to marry, and the one who was dear to her heart was recorded as their mistress. At that time, there was a ban on morganatic marriage, as such, because this could lead to the destruction of the royal family tree. That is precisely how, according to historians, the Romanov dynasty was destroyed.
But by the beginning of the twentieth century, the situation had changed significantly. So, modern Europe, which over the years has regulated this issue, repealed the law. Many direct heirs to the throne from Holland, Spain, Norway and Denmark have long been married to girls who do not have royal blood, but still their children will not suffer from this at all and will ascend to the throne without any problems. But along with those who refused such a cruel law, there are those who honor traditions and have preserved this legislation so far. One such country is Sweden.
So why is it considered that it is very bad for the crown princess or prince to marry one or that to whom you have real feelings, even though they have no “blue blood” of aristocracy in their veins? After all, first of all, happy marriages are spiritual marriages. Newlyweds should feel each other, love each other with all their hearts. Modern aristocrats no longer want to consider themselves different, they want to be like everyone else. But if you look at it from different angles, you can find both positive and negative points. Having entered into a morganatic marriage, many monarchs stop raising their nose, their arrogance and arrogance disappear. But along with this, the problem of the disappearance of the monarchy, as such, arises. Newly made offspring do not want to follow what was so close to their ancestors. They just dream of being like all ordinary people. Whether it is right or wrong, time will judge. But until now, individuals of royal blood are trying to come closest to ordinary people and, having met a beautiful, well-educated, but not having “blue blood” girl, without hesitation, surrender to their feelings.