That he was a Lutheran, and she Catholic, is well-known. What I didn't know, until listening to a video on YouTube, was that they had agreed to raise all their prospective children in her faith. At the time (1925), this promise was a strict requirement of the Catholic Church, for a dispensation.
Who are the present-day heirs to the house, anyway? What exactly happened to the succession? It seems that this might count as another example of a marriage not dynastically approved, despite the unquestionable equality of the union.
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