royal marriage
Monarch's nuptial ceremony
A royal marriage is a union involving a member of a royal family, historically significant for political alliances, succession rights, and dynastic continuity.
Such marriages were often arranged to consolidate power or forge treaties between kingdoms.
Today the term also describes the elaborate ceremonies surrounding these unions: The royal marriage drew millions of viewers worldwide.
- wedding ceremonyRitual joining two spouses
- dowryMarital property transfer
- vowsSolemn binding promises
- wedlockState of being spouses
- trothPledged word of loyalty
fairy tale wedding · king · succession crisis · line of succession · court intrigue · heir apparent · queen · princess bride · crown · regal · exogamy · Catholic Monarchs · throne · banns · intermarry · conjugal · connubial · dynastic succession
- monarchyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- French MonarchyBourbon, Valois, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI
- marriage lawdivorce decree, matrimony, divorce petition, betrothal, annulment
- Royal Marriagesprince consort, queen consort, princess bride, consort
- successionheir apparent, heir presumptive, line of succession, primogeniture, successor
- noble alliancesvassalage, betrothal, homage
royal marriageelopement
Secret departure to wed
Vegas wedding · courthouse wedding · shotgun wedding · civil union · civil ceremony
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