Princess Maud of Fife also accepted a demotion, when in 1923 she married Lord Charles Carnegie (the future 11th Earl of Southesk), by styling herself as Lady Maud Carnegie. To be sure, she had been born with the courtesy title of Lady, since her father was the 1st Duke of Fife. But she had been styled as Princess, with the qualification of Highness, since 1905 (four years after the accession of her maternal grandfather to the British throne as King Edward VII).
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark was legally a royal in the United Kingdom, while residing in the country as a foreigner. But as a naturalized citizen and subject of the British sovereign, on the occasion of her marriage in 1947 to Major Richard Brandam, she stood to become a commoner. So the reigning monarch at the time, her kinsman King George VI, conferred upon her the rank of a duke's daughter -- granting her permission to style herself by the applicable courtesy title: hence, Lady Katherine Brandam.
What are other examples of princesses who underwent a demotion of status and accepting lower titles? I ask this because of the recent trend in the reigning monarchies of Europe to downsize the families and strip members of titles -- obliging them to adopt lower titles.
I know that in the Scandinavian royal houses, it used to be that princes who married commoners were made themselves to accept demotions -- styling themselves afterward by the title of Count.
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