Female lines
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The Grimaldis of Monaco also continued through a female line: Princess Charlotte wasn't even originally a member, since she was illegitimate (born out of lawful wedlock, although it may be that her parents married canonically). She became legitimized through adoption, whereupon she officially became a Grimaldi. But as house membership (whatever might be said about succession) is generally in the male line, her children were Grimaldis only because their father (Comte Pierre de Polignac) became one at marriage to their mother. I believe the Habsburgs of Austria are another good example of a dynasty continuing through a female. Like the Romanovs, they really should have a hyphenated house name -- Habsburg-Lorraine. But that's now how they're known ...
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