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Just something I was wondering about. In theory, as formerly reigning dynasties, Mediatized houses should be considered equal to their reigning counterparts, but is this right in practice? For instance, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie, granddaughter of Emperor Franz Josef, married Mediatized Prince Otto von Windischgratz, but it was considered a morganatic match. At the same time, Wilhelm II married Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, who's family might as well have been a Mediatized house, considering that the twin Duchies had been annexed by Prussia, but she was considered an equal match. So which was it for Mediatized houses: equal or morganatic? Or did it very from dynasty to dynasty?
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