Table of contents:
- Evdokia Lopukhina
- Anna Fedorovna
- Louise Danish
- Princess Tok Hye
- Princess margaret
- Princess Diana
- Princess Haya
Video: From Evdokia Lopukhina to Lady Di: 7 princesses who were unhappy in marriage
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Children's stories make many girls in the world believe that the life of a princess is one continuous holiday. Palace receptions, respectful subjects, and next to it - a real prince. But in fact, princesses are far from always happy, and bitter tears, loneliness and melancholy are often hidden behind external well-being. In our today's selection are the very princesses who could not find the long-awaited warmth and happiness in marriage.
Evdokia Lopukhina
She became the wife of Peter I when the young tsar was only 16 years old, and Evdokia Lopukhina herself was 20. Despite the fact that his mother Natalya Kirillovna chose a wife for her son, the first years of their marriage were truly happy. However, the passion of Peter I did not last long, and three years later the tsar was carried away by Anna Mons. True, until the death of his mother, Peter did not openly demonstrate his negative attitude towards his wife, but Natalya Kirillovna herself soon became disillusioned with her daughter-in-law, disliking her for her rebelliousness and stubbornness.
In 1698, after several refusals of Evdokia Lopukhina to get a haircut as a nun, she was escorted to the monastery and forcibly tonsured in the Suzdal-Pokrovsky Monastery. In 1718, the former queen, who by that time was in connection with Stepan Glebov, was forced to watch the execution of a loved one and her other supporters, and then exiled to the Ladoga Assumption Monastery, where her every step was strictly monitored. After the death of her ex-husband, she spent several more years in monasteries and only after the accession of the grandson of Peter II was she transported to Moscow with honors. She died in 1731.
Anna Fedorovna
She was only 14 years old when Julianne-Henriett-Ulrik of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was married to the 16-year-old Tsarevich Konstantin Pavlovich. The husband was rude and often frightened the young wife with his antics. He could put her in a vase, at which he shot afterwards, and the girl almost fainted from fear.
When Konstantin Pavlovich learned that in the world Anna Fedorovna is considered a beauty, he forbade her to leave the chambers. And this despite the fact that the Tsarevich himself could never be called a faithful husband. Several years after the wedding, in 1801, Anna Fedorovna was able to escape from her husband, but received a divorce from him only after almost 20 years.
Louise Danish
From childhood, the daughter of King Frederick VIII of Denmark grieved her family with a tendency to depression, and when the princess matured, it was decided to marry her. Grandmother picked up a seemingly good candidate for the eldest granddaughter: Prince Friedrich of Schaumburg-Lippsky. Perhaps this marriage could be happy, but the young wife, despite the birth of three heirs, desperately yearned far from her parental family and became increasingly depressed.
She often left her husband and went to her father. In 1906, Louise of Denmark died of the effects of meningitis, but at that time there were rumors that the princess made an unsuccessful attempt to drown herself, as a result, she caught a bad cold and died.
Princess Tok Hye
The life of the last Korean princess from the Li dynasty was not sweet from birth: his own father, 60-year-old Emperor Gojong, refused to recognize his daughter, born of a concubine, and added her to the family list when the girl was 5 years old. Then, at the age of 13, she was sent to Japan and was not even allowed to attend her mother's funeral.
At the age of 19, Princess Tok Hye, at the direction of the wife of the Emperor of Japan, was married to the aristocrat Takeyuki So. The marriage became a real torture for both. Against the background of depression, Tok Hye developed a mental illness, she was treated in a clinic for a long time, after she divorced her husband on his initiative and lost her daughter, who could not come to terms with the divorce of her parents.
Princess Tok Hye spent the last years of her life in Korea, surrounded by her brother's family.
Princess margaret
Beauty and rebel Margaret was the complete opposite of her sister, Princess Elizabeth. In her youth, Princess Margaret fell in love with Captain Peter Townsend, who served in the palace. However, the difference in the origin and social status of the lovers did not give them the opportunity to start a family, moreover, the captain was divorced. The princess could give up the title and marry him after 25 years, but she made the decision to break up with Peter. Nevertheless, her first love left an imprint on her entire future life.
Shortly after the news of Peter Townsend's marriage, Princess Margaret hastily married the photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones. But this marriage was never happy. Even the birth of two children could not prevent Princess Margaret from having new and new novels. She seemed to be trying to prove to herself and the whole world the right to love. 18 years after marriage, Margaret divorced her husband.
Princess Diana
The queen of human hearts was held hostage to her love for Prince Charles. She sincerely believed that she could become happy, but the husband himself was unhappy because of the inability to be with the one for whom he himself had feelings. Camilla Parker Bowles has always stood between Princess Diana and her husband.
Lady Dee suffered from depression, threw tantrums at her husband, and then began to seek solace on the side. Later, Prince Charles stopped hiding his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, and in 1996 the couple filed for divorce at the insistence of the queen herself.
Princess Haya
For 15 years, Haya bint al-Hussein was married to Sheikh Mohammed ibn Rashid al-Maktoum. At first glance, this family was almost exemplary: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, financial well-being. Princess Haya all this time emphasized in her interviews the dignity of her husband, extolled his business and fatherly qualities, thanked fate for the opportunity to be close to such a worthy person.
In the summer of 2019, she escaped from the palace with her two children and initiated divorce proceedings. She does not give interviews and does not comment on her act, but at the same time hired serious security for herself and her children, fearing for her own life and the safety of her son and daughter.
Representatives of royal families increasingly stop paying attention to the origin and lack of a title from their chosen one. They successfully create families with ordinary girls who, after marriage, become real princesses and sometimes queens. At the same time, the princes themselves feel happy.
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