Note 232 — Chapter XXVIII · THE NEW DEPARTURE.

When Prince Victor married the sister of the Marquis of Hertford, she was created Countess Gleichen, a title which the Prince also assumed, the marriage being on the Continent regarded as “morganatic.” It was held that the Queen’s order raising the lady to her husband’s royal rank was void and illegal outside the English Court, like the similar order with reference to the Countess Dornburg.