Hasn't this been the custom for men born royal who move to Spain, settle there permanently, and marry Spanish infantas to be created into Infantes of Spain by grace?
Also, consider Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este, who in 1995 was declared a prince of Belgium: his father-in-law (King Albert II, then still reigning) was able to do this, for the same reason that he was able to create Jonkvrouwe Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz later on (in 1999) into a princess of Belgium in her own right. The 1991 constitutional amendment that changed the succession law stated that the wife of a prince was not automatically a princess. Certainly by the same logic, the husband of a princess was not automatically a prince.
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