When prince Xavier de Bourbon de Parme married Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset his half brother decided she was not equal and the marriage was deemed morganatic. However once Xavier's nephew was head of the dynasty he decided otherwise making the children of that marriage legitimate heirs and Hugo number two in the line of succession.
In Russia we see a similar situation. HIH Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna has not deemed the marriage of her son and heir Grand Duke George Michaelovich equal so his wife and children do have the Grand Ducal titles or Imperial styles. Yet she knows perfectly well that once Georgy succeeds he is going to alter the rules around marriages from a certain date (read his own marriage date), making his wife HIH Grand Duchess Victoria Romanovna and their children Imperial heirs.
The same could have happened if Franz Ferdinand had succeeded. Technically his children were already the heirs in Hungary because that kingdom did not have a history of morganatic marriages. So only the Imperial Austrian crown was something that needed to be altered as that part of the double monarchy did know morganatic marriages. By changing the rules (as Archduke Otto did later in his life) Sophie and their children could have become legitimate.
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Take the swedish case:
It would be virtually impossible for King Gustav VI Adolf to allow his grandson wedding to the commoner Silvia Sommerlath after having barred from the succesion two of his sons.
Carl Gustav married his fiancée after his grand-father passed away.
His uncles made a protest, but that turned into nothing.
In Brazil, the Prince of Grão-Pará, D. Rafael d'Orléans-Bragança, is trying to force his uncle, the old pretendant, to accept his noble but not equal fiancée and accept their marriage .
In an interview to Point de Vue, he even announced the wedding date.
D.Bertrand (85 years old) remains silent, having reminded his nephew the Family Laws.
Will D. Rafael be counting his uncle won't live until the Autumn ?
D. Bertrand was in Portugal last month and looked quite well for a person of his age.
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