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...al llegar a Vladimir, hijo de Kyril y Ducky, vuelve a surgir un matrimonio que no cumple los requisitos si nos ponemos puristas. Leónida Georgievna nació princesa Bagration-Moukhransky, sin duda con una excelente genealogía que, si se retrocede a través de las generaciones, lleva directamente a los reyes de Georgia. Pero los Bagration-Moukhransky no figuraban entre las familias soberanas que los Romanov consideraban sus iguales. Tampoco voy a decir que la boda de Vladimir y Leónida fuese morganática debido a la ascendencia de ella. Hay el antecedente de que Nicholas II aprobó el matrimonio de su prima la gran duquesa Tatiana Constantinovna con un príncipe Bagration-Moukhransky, aceptando el enlace como "desigual pero no morganático". Supongo que lo mismo aplicaría a Vladimir y Leónida, por mucho que Vladimir proclamase la unión que él estaba a punto de contraer como igual basándose en que remotos ancestros de Leónida habían reinado en Tiflis.
Exacto, además recordemos que Vladimir se convirtió en el Jefe de la Casa Imperial y el como tal podía decidir que matrimonio era igual y cual no y el considero el suyo como igual.
Aquí les pongo algunos decretos que se hicieron concernientes al tema (están en ingles)Citar:
b) que Kyril se casó PESE A LA PROHIBICIÓN EXPRESA DEL VIGENTE ZAR con una PRIMA HERMANA que estaba DIVORCIADA
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Decree of Emperor Nicholas II Concerning the Recognition of the Wedding of Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich and Granting to His Wife and Descendants Those Rights Belonging to Members of the Russian Imperial House, 15 July 1907.
To the Governing Senate:
Bowing to the request of Our Beloved Uncle, His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Wladimir Alexandrovich, We most graciously decree that the Consort of His Imperial Highness, Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich, should be named Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, with the style Imperial Highness, and that the daughter born of the marriage of Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, who is named Maria in Holy Baptism, is to be recognized as a Princess of the Blood Imperial, with the style of Highness, which belongs to the Great-Grandchildren of an Emperor. The Governing Senate shall not delay in taking the necessary steps to make this decree public.
(The original has been signed in His Imperial Majesty’s own hand:)
Nicholas
Sobre el reconocimiento de rango de la casa real Bragation:Citar:
Decree of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, on the Recognition of the Royal Rank of the House of Bagration, 22 November/5 December 1946.
His Royal Highness, the Infante Don Fernando of Spain, Prince of Bavaria, asked Me when his daughter, the Infanta Mercedes, was about to contract a marriage with Prince Irakly Georgievich Bagration of Moukhrani, whether, taking into account the independence of Georgia from 1918 to 1921 and the present position of its Royal Family, I could consider the proposed marriage to be an equal one.
My reply, which was conveyed to the Infante through the intermediary of the Spanish Minister in Berne, the Count de Bailen, was in the affirmative, inasmuch as, after prolonged and careful study of the history of Georgia and of the Georgian question, and after consulting my uncle His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Andrei, brother of my late Father, and my advisers, and after correspondence with the historian, Professor M. Muskelishvili, I consider it right and proper to recognize the royal status of the senior branch of the Bagration family, as well as the right of its members to bear the title of Prince of Georgia and the style of Royal Highness. The present head of the family is Prince George.
If Almighty God, in His mercy, grants the rebirth of our great empire, I consider it right that the Georgian language should be restored for use in the internal administration of Georgia and in her educational establishments. The Russian language should be obligatory for general use within the empire.
I have decided to draw up this decree for the good of the Russian Empire and for the preservation of its territorial integrity in the future, and have deemed it right to affix my signature to it, in order to satisfy the legitimate national sentiments of the Georgian people and in the hopes of avoiding thereby a possible annexation of their fatherland by force of arms, in the event of its willful secession from the Russian Empire.
(The original is signed in His Imperial Highness’s own hand:)
Wladimir
Sanlucar de Barrameda,
5 December 1946
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Con todo, creo -no estoy segura- que Vladimir no se atrevió a designar a María heredera del trono imperial, sino simple "Curatrix" (Curadora) de los derechos del hijo que ella había tenido en su matrimonio con Franz Wilhelm de Prusia. Franz Wilhelm sí cumplía, me imagino, los requisitos: los Hohenzollern son una dinastía al nivel de los Romanov y él tuvo el cuidado de convertirse a la ortodoxia a raíz de su boda con María Vladimirovna. Aunque tradicionalmente las féminas no transmitían derechos, ahí Vladimir se saca de la manga la fórmula de designar su sucesor al joven Georg con María en el papel de Curadora del Trono.
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An Announcement of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, on the Death of H.H. Vasilii Alexandrovich, Prince of the Imperial Blood, and, in Connection with His Passing, the Resulting Direct Transference of the Rights of Succession to the Throne of All the Russias to H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna, 12/25 July 1989.
I announce with deep regret the death on 24 July of this year of My Beloved second Cousin, His Highness Prince Vasilii Alexandrovich.
The late Prince was, beside Me, the last male Member of the Russian Imperial House who had the right to succeed to the Throne. With His death, in accordance with the State Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire, the succession to the Throne passes after Me to the female line of Our Family, and according to these same Laws, the Senior person in order of succession to the Throne in the female line is My Daughter, Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna.
When, on 23 December 1969, My Daughter reached Her dynastic majority, I considered it necessary to take steps to guard Her rights to the succession to the Throne from any infringements, wherever they might come from, and to establish that, in the event that My death should follow the death of another male Representative of the Dynasty, that My Daughter should become the Curatrix of the Russian Imperial Throne in accordance with, in the example of, and with the prerogatives accruing to the institution of a Regency, provided for by the Fundamental Laws.
Now, with the demise of all male Members of the Imperial House besides Me, and in view of the absence of any descendants from them who would have the right to the succession to the Throne, the necessity of establishing a Curatorship of the Throne after My death has fallen upon My Daughter, who will be My Heiress as Head of the Imperial House.
We pray to the Almighty that, when the hour arrives for My Daughter to take from Me all the rights and duties of the Head of the Imperial House, He will grant to Her the strength and the ability to fulfill the important responsibility that has been set before Her and that She will successfully carry the high responsibilities of the Heiress of Our Crown-Bearing Ancestors; and that the Most High will after Her similarly bless Her Most Beloved Son and Our Grandson, His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich.
(The original is signed in His Imperial Highness’s own hand:)
Wladimir
25 July 1989