that someone with that long a name could be of inferiour rank.
to Sophie Maria Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin. Poor Franz. Poor Sophie.
Nearly everyone was of lesser rank within the Habsburg domains. Unless you were an Archduke or an Archduchess you were not suitable material for marriage in the eyes of Emperor Franz Joseph. His wife, for instance, was a Duchess of Bavaria.
Otherwise, the only acceptable marriage partners were princes and princesses of foreign lands.
I was attempting what I have heard the plebs refer to as a joke. I really suck at it, apparently. Nobody ever notices when I make one.
*MySmiley*
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Morganatic marriage
01/12/2009 09:03:24 AM
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Left-handed marriages and misalliances
01/12/2009 09:27:35 AM
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weird
01/12/2009 09:29:21 AM
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I've known about this since 1998, when I learned about Franz Ferdinand's marriage
01/12/2009 05:47:21 PM
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It is hard to believe
01/12/2009 06:28:21 PM
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The HohHabsburgs marriage pool was limited.
01/12/2009 06:42:57 PM
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yesyes
01/12/2009 06:44:13 PM
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There was a joke in there? What was it?
01/12/2009 06:47:01 PM
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awwww
01/12/2009 06:49:11 PM
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That was a joke?
01/12/2009 07:44:01 PM
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hmph
01/12/2009 07:50:50 PM
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I both got it and appreciated it,
01/12/2009 08:00:45 PM
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Re: I both got it and appreciated it,
01/12/2009 08:03:43 PM
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Dude, that was totally a joke
01/12/2009 07:55:17 PM
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then why did you tell me it wasn't a joke, but a "witty comment"?
01/12/2009 07:56:22 PM
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