Line of succession to

the Luxembourger
throne

Since 2011, the crown of Luxembourg descends

according to absolute primogeniture among Grand
Duke Henri's descendants and according to agnatic
primogeniture among other dynasts.

Line of succession
Grand Duchess Charlotte (1896–1985)
 Grand Duke Jean (1921–2019)
Grand Duke Henri (born 1955)
(1) Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume (b. 1981)
(2) Prince Charles (b. 2020)
(3) Prince Félix (b. 1984)
(4) Princess Amalia of Nassau (b. 2014)
(5) Prince Liam of Nassau (b. 2016)
(6) Princess Alexandra (b. 1991)
(7) Prince Sébastien (b. 1992)
(8) Prince Guillaume (b. 1963)
(9) Prince Paul Louis of Nassau (b. 1998)
(10) Prince Léopold of Nassau (b. 2000)
(11) Prince Jean André of Nassau (b. 2004)
Prince Charles (1927–1977)
(12) Prince Robert (b. 1968)
(13) Prince Alexandre of Nassau (b. 1997)
 (14) Prince Frederik of Nassau (b. 2002)

Succession law

History …

The constitution of Luxemburg states that the crown is

hereditary in the house of Nassau according to the
pact of 1783 (the Nassau Family Pact), the Treaty of
Vienna made in 1815, and the Treaty of London of
1867.

In April 1907 Grand Duke William IV decreed

(approved in July 1907 by legislature of Luxembourg
and thereafter enacted) amendments to the House law
of Nassau: the Grand Duke's eldest daughter would
succeed (that provision is identical with the effect of
the 1783 pact), and after her, her issue in male line
born of marriages that abide by the house laws; in
default thereof, the Grand Duke's next daughters in
similar fashion. Thus, issue of the Grand Duke's
daughters received succession rights only in strict
agnatic line - a male-line male descendant of a
younger daughter would have had preference over
female descendants of elder daughters. This law of
succession in Luxembourg followed a special order
among male lines issued from Grand Duke William
IV's daughters.

The 1907 amendments to the house law bypassed the

Counts of Merenberg, male-line descendants of the
House of Nassau. While the Merenberg line had a
male heir in the person of Georg Nikolaus, Count von
Merenberg (1871–1948), the count was born of a
morganatic marriage between Grand Duke William
IV's uncle, Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, and
Natalia Pushkina (daughter of Russian author
Alexander Pushkin, a member of the untitled Russian
nobility). The count's claim to be recognized as the heir
to the Grand Duchy was dismissed on the grounds that
he and his branch were non-dynastic despite his
marriage to Princess Olga Alexandrovna Yurievskaya,
a morganatic daughter of Tsar Alexander II of
Russia. The Merenberg line eventually also ran out of
male heirs; the last surviving male-line descendant is
Countess Clotilde von Merenberg, third cousin once
removed of Grand Duke Henri.
Prince Jean of Luxembourg, second son of Grand Duke
Jean, renounced his right of succession for himself and
his heirs on 26 September 1986. Prince Louis of
Luxembourg, third son of Grand Duke Henri,
renounced his right of succession for himself and his
heirs upon his marriage in 2006.

Absolute primogeniture …

The preference for men over women in succession to

Luxembourg's throne was abandoned in favour of
absolute primogeniture on 20 June 2011 by decree of
Grand Duke Henri.[1][2] Henceforth, any legitimate
female descendant of the House of Luxembourg-
Nassau born of authorized marriage shall inherit the
throne by order of seniority of line of descent and of
birth as stipulated in Article 3 of the Constitution and
the Nassau Family Pact without regard to gender,
applicable first to succession by the descendants of
Grand Duke Henri.[3] The Grand Duke's Marshal
issued an addendum to the decree explaining the
context of the change: pursuant to the United Nations'
1979 call for nations to eliminate all forms of
discrimination against women, in 2008 the Grand
Duchy dropped the exception to gender non-
discrimination it had declared in the matter of the
grand ducal succession.[4]

References
1. "New Ducal succession rights for Grand
Duchy" . Luxemburger Wort. 21 June 2011.
 Archived from the original on 19 December
2012. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
2. per
http://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/adm/dec/2010/09/
16/n1/jo
3. "Droits de Succession: Ordre successoral" . Cour
Grand-Ducale de Luxembourg. Maréchalat de
la Cour. 20 June 2011. Retrieved August 16,
2013.
4. "Annexe au Communiqué du Maréchalat: Note
explicative" (PDF). Cour Grand-Ducale de
Luxembourg. Maréchalat de la Cour. 20 June
2011. Retrieved August 29, 2013.

External links
 "Droits de succession" (in French). Cour Grand-
Ducale de Luxembourg.

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