The family — currently the seniormost genealogical line of the entire Bagrationi dynasty[1] — has since been known as Mukhranbatoni (Georgian: მუხრანბატონი lit.

[1] Constantine's scions, the branch of the house of Mukhrani, chose to stay in Kartli rather than follow Vakhtang VI to Russia.

A rival claim, based on male primogeniture descent from the last kings of Kartli-Kakheti in eastern Georgia, comes from Prince Nugzar, head of the Bagration-Gruzinsky family, an offshoot of the Bagrationi of Kakheti.

[8] Although this led some politicians and parties to entertain the notion of a Georgian constitutional monarchy, competition arose among the old dynasty's princes and supporters, as historians and jurists debated which Bagrationi has the strongest hereditary right to a throne that has been vacant for two centuries.

[9] The bridegroom is the only member of his branch who retains Georgian citizenship and residence since the death of his father, Prince George Bagration-Mukhrani in 2008.

1947, married with no children), are the last patrilineal males descended from King George XIII, their branch verges on extinction.

But the marriage between Nugzar Gruzinsky's heiress and the Mukhrani heir resolves their rivalry for the claim to the throne, which has divided Georgian monarchists.