Talk:Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine

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Scandal?

There seems to be a lot of talk in this article about the supposedly scandalous nature of Prince Alexander's marriage. This seems kind of hyperbolic - it's not as though morganatic marriages were unknown, and the fact that Julia was given a title by her brother-in-law only a week after the marriage suggests that Ludwig III was not all that upset about it. This was only one in a series of morganatic marriages by German and other princes in the nineteenth century - just looking through genealogies, I count about a dozen such marriages in the decades leading up to Alexander's marriage. One such marriage was that of the head of the whole house of Hesse, the Elector Frederick William, who had contracted a morganatic marriage some decades before. I'm not sure what the truth of this story is, but the account here seems embellished. john k (talk) 04:01, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]