morganatic in English

adjective
1
of or denoting a marriage in which neither the spouse of lower rank nor any children have any claim to the possessions or title of the spouse of higher rank.
As this was a morganatic marriage, their five children should not have been eligible for the succession.
adjective

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1. Except perhaps for Duff Cooper, who was the closest to the King, they were all against the morganatic proposal.

2. Edward proposed an alternative solution of a morganatic marriage, in which he would remain king but Simpson would not become queen consort.

3. The morganatic marriage of a Reformist prince with a Lutheran woman from the lesser nobility brought vehements protest from the Reform Church and the other agnates of the Anhalt principalities.

4. Many years later, in memoirs published after her death, she declared that she and Leopold had engaged in a morganatic marriage and that he had bestowed upon her the title of Countess Montgomery.

5. Historian Christopher J. Bennett considered Ptolemy XII and his brother identical with the two children mentioned by Justin, but proposed that they were the children of Cleopatra IV, considered illegitimate because of their parents' "morganatic" marriage.