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• s  (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior

• He demanded protection against such picketing by his morganatic wife and her son whose legitimacy he does not recognize.
• His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety.
• Baldwin vowed to resign rather than allow an American divorce to become Queen; he also argued that tradition did not permit a morganatic marriage, in which she would not assume .

• left-handed

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• Andrew Mackinlay in Times Online
  He had a fascination for constitutional matters - morganatic marriage, primogeniture rules, the relationship of monarchy to the constitution and so on,said Andrew MacKinlay, Labour MP for Thurrock. "But he was also very convivial. He was...