Indigenous Maori, American Actress and Aged Flight Attendant: New Members of the English Royal Family

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Good news for those who still think they "have hope of marrying a prince." In royal families, this seems to be becoming a fashion trend. And now, more often than not, princes do not have to sacrifice their hereditary rights, choosing between the throne and love. The Royal Family of Great Britain can boast of the most advanced position in this matter. Her history can be traced to the attitude towards unequal marriages, from rejection to complete tolerance.

Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

The uncle of Elizabeth II was forced to give up the throne for the sake of his beloved. Back in 1930, as Prince of Wales, he met the Simpsons. Wallis, 34, amazed him. It was love at first sight. After 6 years, Edward VIII ascended the throne, but renounced him less than a year later, as soon as his beloved received a divorce (which, by the way, was already the second in her life). A royal marriage with a divorced woman is unacceptable - therefore, the king was forced to make this difficult choice. The couple lived happily together for 35 years.

Prince Charles and Diana Spencer

A sad but very beloved love story ended with an ugly divorce and death, and lately it has been acquiring very unromantic details. Diana, a direct descendant of the Spencer-Churchills (leading their line from the illegitimate children of Charles II), was not Cinderella in the full sense of the word, but she also did not fit the ideal format of the prince's bride. Now her warm reception by the queen is explained by the presence of the Prince of Wales's longtime girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles, and by the fact that Diana was a more acceptable option for the royal family at that time. Be that as it may, she became the first bride of the crown prince to have a paid job before marriage.

Prince William and Kate Middleton

The eldest son of Princess Diana and Prince Charles continued the now traditional misalliance by asking for the hand of Kate Middleton. Her parents can be proud of their proletarian origin - both worked in civil aviation, more distant ancestors were even miners. True, in the future, the family became rich by founding a mail-order company. The future spouses met while studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Now the couple pleases the British with a wonderful marriage and already three royal offspring.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

The youngest son of Princess Diana and Prince Charles did not disappoint either - in May 2018 he married American actress Meghan Markle. Probably, the future heirs of the English throne will be the first owners of an admixture of African American blood (from Megan's mother). True, American connoisseurs of genealogy conducted research, according to the results of which Markla turned out to be descendants of the English king Edward III, but these medieval roots and 17-knee kinship can hardly allow one to forget that the father of the new princess worked as a lighting director all her life, and her mother was a social worker and taught yoga.

Lady Davina Windsor and Gary Christy Lewis

Yes, not only cute girls can become "Cinderellas". But it is not only this that is interesting in this case. The great-granddaughter of King George V and cousin of Queen Elizabeth married a purebred Maori, the indigenous people of the islands of New Zealand. And not at all for a descendant of local leaders. Her chosen one grew up in one of the poorest corners of the country, sheared sheep and worked part-time at construction sites. With the princess he was brought together by chance and a common love of surfing. So no one is insured, he suddenly fell on his head of happiness, no matter in what remote corner of the Earth you are hiding from him! The couple got married in 2004 in London.

Lord Ivar Mountbatten and James Coyle

This fall, the English royal family showed the world a true example of tolerance - the first-ever royal same-sex marriage took place. The "young" have already turned 55 and 56 years old. Interestingly, Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Lord Ivar, is a direct descendant of our great poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - he is the grandson of Pushkin's great-granddaughter and Emperor Nicholas I, Countess Nadezhda Mikhailovna de Torby. He officially announced his coming-out only in 2016 (by the way, this was also the first time for the royal family), and until 2011 this representative of non-traditional minorities was married. His wife Lady Penelope Thompson bore him three children, and the former family is still on excellent terms with each other. It was Penelope who led her ex-husband to the altar this time. Such an interesting move, according to her, was offered to her daughter.

As for his chosen one, little is known about him. The fact that marriage is clearly a misalliance is somehow not mentioned. However, this modern Cinderella used to work as a flight attendant and met her prince at a Swiss ski resort. The couple is incredibly happy. Elizabeth II did not attend the wedding, but sent the warmest congratulations to the newlyweds.

There were also cases of misalliance in Russian history. So, for example, at the beginning of the 20th century, a scandalous unequal marriage took place, due to which Mikhail Romanov abdicated the throne