Show morganatic 0 Marria marriages 0 ees everybody has bas heard the term morganatic mar marriages and many people suppose that knarr aes a ages es of this kind are of concubinage iu in which the a 1 species s I 1 kings and prince of L europa siope are arc full fund d of indulging this is not tile the ce C e how ever A morganatic mairia 0 gc as binding upon the parties ss as any other and art an other marri marriage aue the term is derived from the gelman mor yen gabe galic which means a dowry it signifies a marti contract in which one of the parties is greatly superior in in rank to the other baity if it be the bilde who is of inferior rank she agrees that she aud and her children shall b be entitled neither to the rank nor the estate of her husband and that the dowry which is settled upon her at the time of the m marriage arri age shall be accepted in lieu of all oth other e r privileges if the man be the inferior he be gives his assent to a similar condition in the baidal ceremony the party of superior ra rank gives tb the e left hand band instead of the right to the other whence these marria marriage geare are sometimes styled left handed banded one of the most famous marriages of this class was that of frederic william th third of Pius bia to the countess augustof harrach upon whom her husband conferred the rank of princess of lie liegnitz 0 nitz a marriage consummated in 1824 long after the death of the kings more le 7 inmate spouse and beautiful queen louisa the princess of liegnitz is still living a widow since 1840 another morganatic marriage was wag that of the late king of denmark frederick the seventh who after being divorced hom two princesses married a plain dressmaker by the name of with whom ho he lived happily till his death he first encountered her under very singular a circumstances it is the custom at copenhagen when a large file occurs for one of tile the princes to attend it arid and to take command of the detachments of soldiers which are always ordered out on such occasions to keep order while the fite men endeavor to extinguish the con gation fla F frederic then crown prince was once performing this duty W when lien his eye caught 0 sight of a dressed wax fiure figure in the window of a dressmakers shop in the second story of the burning building in the hurry burry and excite 53 lay 2 g u ia to r 7 iving person cricq endeavor avor ing nig to afi kizim am the window leaping int 6 from roell his hoide lie plunged into the building 0 at and id ascended the staircase on his way through the rooms lie he dis coveted the owner of the dressmaking 0 establishment who was bewildered in the smoke and whom lie he conducted to a place of safety this was the woman whom wham lc be subsequently marr married iea be slowing upon glicr ter the title ot of the countess danner banner at and id settling za upon her a large lowly sit slie survived h him im only a year year or two among the existing members of princely houses who have contracted n tra c t ed this kind of marriage mairi age my maybe be mentioned prince leopold of saxon saxony y prince charls of bavaria and alexander of wilt wiit emberg it is id a son of the last named an oll spring offspring of his morganatic marriage ria e who under the name of prince teck lately married queen victon victoriaa riar ac cousin alie pi incas mary of cambridge ta A singular instance of a morganatic union union is that eliat of prince edward axe weimer who is married in this murmur manint to a daughter of the phoud duke of of richmond while another english nobleman tile the duke of hamilton wedded on oil terms of perfect equality a I 1 princess of the grand ducal house ot baden whose rank is as high bagh as aa that of edward the only modem bodein disc case with which we are familiar or of a morganatic marriage in in which the bride was the person son of superior rank is that 0 of f the Plin princess cess elizabeth of italy sister in law of victor emmanuel who was married with the lett left land hand in ill a year after tho death of her husband prince fre fredinand ditland to the maiquis rapa capallo lio victor emmanuel hi himself io id said to have been mote moie than once on oil tile the point of contracting a morganatic union with some of bia hi 5 favorites but has been pre arf vented by the advice of his ministers Mini Min isteni stera who somehow or other deem it bl better itei for the interests of the state that lie he should live in a in more ore reprehensible ble I 1 manner the reig ining dynasty ol 01 pies exits cuts an isolated isolated instance ine tanco of oatlie tile scion of 0 f a morganatic marii maniago ac t bi bie aking through the trammeling p ov bious of such nuch a union and succeeding to 10 the rank of liis bis pai patent cut in the same sallie way as aa the offspring union in 1830 of ar an i equal with tile the death of tile the grand duke louis tile the strictly legit legitimate mate line of the ancient princes pi inces of baden canie came to an all end king louia of bavais was on oil the point of taking possession odthe of the country as n next v r t of lin kin when leopold tile the on of a morganatic batic marriage marii age a of the preceding G gravid ran d duke dduke charles freddie with wilh a i madame gemei berg budde suddenly nl y proclaimed himself liim self grand duke lie ile was mas pu potted by the people who a admired his character and boldness babara war a and rid marched ber acini s towards lovs aids the babeu fro frontier fronti autier ir but the outbreak out b break reak of the french revolution of 1830 which was follow fd cd by in iii vadious parts of germany induced induce d king I 1 ing louis to pause and he be finally cou contented tented himself with a solemn against what he called a usurpation of tho the c own the reigning family of baden lias has never since been disturbed aud and its claims have been fully recognized by the german powers leopolds son fj fi eddric its is now on the throne and is trial i aed to a sister of the present king of prussia Pi one more instance of a morganatic union is that of the despotic elector of hesse whose dominions prussia recently annexed to the great joy of his subjects in 1831 he befell fell in love with gertrude lehmann the pretty wife of a non commissioned focer in the prussian army A little pecuniary arrangement was made with her husband hubband a divorce was obtained and immediately afterward elector frederick william took her ter to wife morganatic morgina tic lie he made her first countess of schaumburg and then princess of hanau hanan she has borne him six sous and three daughters who have taken their titles from their mother it is said that he be intended to have declared his oldest son heir to the throne notwithstanding the legal hindrances in in tile the way but prussia by her summary y ploce proceedings edings has prevented the execution of any such project |