Royal Dowries: When & Why did they stop being important?

So I was reading a biography on Charles II of England and have go to the part about Catherine of Braganza's dowry (the biggest given to a Queen of England in history!:eek:) and it got me thinking. When and why did dowries stop being important for Royal marriages? I can find various dowries into the 18th century, Marie Antoinettes was 200,000 gold crowns, but going into the 19th century dowries stopped mattering. Was it because royal marriages were technically chosen by the bride and groom? Was it because marriages became much less important for alliances? Or was there another reason?
 
So I was reading a biography on Charles II of England and have go to the part about Catherine of Braganza's dowry (the biggest given to a Queen of England in history!:eek:) and it got me thinking. When and why did dowries stop being important for Royal marriages? I can find various dowries into the 18th century, Marie Antoinettes was 200,000 gold crowns, but going into the 19th century dowries stopped mattering. Was it because royal marriages were technically chosen by the bride and groom? Was it because marriages became much less important for alliances? Or was there another reason?

I think it's a mix of the marriage being chosen technically, the declining political importance of marriages as a reason for alliances, and a general change in the attitude of how monarchy functions, instead of the nation being personal property of the king who's treasury could be used on anything including exhorbitant prices for a marriage it was looked on a lot less fondly to use a huge percentage of the national budget on a marriage. And in an era where kings where killed for being looked at unfondly thats a pretty big deal.
 
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