Consider, for instance, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to his uncle -- Emperor Franz Joseph. Despite his morganatic marriage to the Bohemian Countess Sophie Chotek, he would still have ascended the imperial throne, had he not been assassinated. It's just that his wife would not have been crowned empress alongside himself: she was elevated only to Princess of Hohenberg -- the children sharing their mother's rank and titles.
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