The sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf neither requested nor received consent for their marriages, because they had no succession rights to forfeit. So their choices of husbands were irrelevant.
Semi-Salicism appears to have been the DE FACTO operation of royal succession, in the European dynasties. However, it has been mainly in the houses of Germany (e.g. Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Nassau, Württemberg) and Austria where this has been a DE JURE thing. Czar Paul of Russia adopted this principle into the Fundamental Laws governing the Romanov imperial succession (thanks to the influence of his wife's birth house, Württemberg).
The royal house of Bourbon-Two Sicilies also operates officially under semi-Salicism: it's the only non-German house I know of where this is the case. And yes, there are German dynasties (e.g. royal Prussia) operating officially under the Salic law, like the French. I believe that this also applies to the princely house of Liechtenstein today (the only reigning dynasty excluding females from the succession).
The grand duchy of Luxembourg (the reigning house originally being a German ducal dynasty) was the last reigning house to officially operate under the semi-Salic law (in accordance with the Nassau Family Pact). But it got abolished in 2011 with the institution of fully cognatic primogeniture (like Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, and Denmark; the UK would adopt this in 2013).
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