Carl Ludwig II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg his younger brother Hermann, after he intended to marry unequally. However, he retained the title of Prince (). Carl Ludwig was married morganatically on 22 February 1861 in Paris to Maria Grathwohl (1837–1901), eldest daughter of Georg Andreas Grathwohl and his wife, Friederike Meyer. His wife, unable to share his title, was created "Baroness von Bronn" in the nobility of Württemberg, the title being made heritable for all their children and legitimate male-line descendants. They had three children: Carl Ludwig II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Carl Ludwig II, 5th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (; 25 October 182916 May 1907), was the eldest
Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia From his father's first marriage he had two siblings, an older sister Xenia and a younger brother Andrew. From his father's second marriage he had one half sister, Olga. Neither Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich nor his son Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich (who were heads of the House of Romanov from 1924 to 1992) recognised Michael as a "Prince of Russia". Cyril and Vladimir held that the marriage of Prince Michael Andreevitch's parents was not dynastic and that Michael had no succession rights to the Russian throne. They accorded him the title "HSH Prince Romanovsky-di Sasso Ruffo." Prince Michael Andreevich was