As noted, such a succession would have been akin to the 1907 Nassau Family Statute, which made the six daughters of Grand Duke Guillaume IV of Luxembourg into equal agnates. Female inheritance would be permitted only for their generation, but restricted to male lines in the future.
Of course, Parliament amended the constitution in 2011 to change the succession law to fully cognatic, but effective only with the descendants of the present sovereign, Grand Duke Henri. So his niece and sisters and excluded.
Not that they would have any chance of succeeding, anyway: in today's world, unless one is the heir, he doesn't really stand any chance of sitting on a throne. So the fact that Princess Alexandra displaced her younger brother, Prince Sebastian, has turned out to be irrelevant, since her oldest brother, Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume, finally got an heir.
Yes, she would. Letters Patent of 1900 allowed the dukedom to be inherited by daughters of Princess Louise but excluded female inheritance in further generations
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