Most European nations might have abolished their monarchies, but there s no shortage of grand dukes, princes, princesses and otherwise regal personages - some of them very eligible indeed.
There s an actress, a financier, a TV news reader and even a model. One or two did nothing at all. But today these royal wives are notable because none of them were aristocrats.
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