Explore: Dynastic Marriages

kings were traditionally given in marriage to their fellow royals as a matter of dynastic policy. Sometimes these marriages would involve members of other

where succession law and conventions have maintained dynastic names de jure through a female. Dynastic politics has declined over time, owing to a decline

morganatic marriages were ineligible to succeed to their families' respective thrones, children of morganatic marriages have gone on to achieve dynastic success

prince. Through his daughters Märtha and Astrid, for whom he arranged dynastic marriages, he is an ancestor of current members of the Grand Ducal Family of

fact the first marriage in the dynasty conducted in compliance with the Emperor's formal decision not to accept as dynastic the marriages of even the most

line. Since Malcolm had no son of his own, he negotiated a series of dynastic marriages of his daughters to men who might otherwise be his rivals, while securing

focused on the arranged dynastic marriages of her children and were affected by her anti-German views. The high status marriages she arranged for her children

and was not recognized as equal by Nicholas II for the purpose of dynastic marriages at the time of the union of Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia

who had a fondness for circuses. Ludovika was determined to create dynastic marriages for her daughters. She and her husband had ten children, including

3331.[citation needed] The marriages of all members of the dynasty that had been considered capable of transmitting dynastic rights had been to royal princesses