5 enviable famous brides who never got married

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

People of royal blood have always been considered the best parties for marriage, since marriage was seen as a profitable political union. The brides were manipulated, promising them to one groom or another. But sometimes it happened that the monarchs remained in the status of eternal brides.

Elizabeth I - Queen of England

The most famous "eternal bride" was the Queen of England Elizabeth I Tudor … She liked to repeat that England is her husband, and her subjects are children. The Queen was a “tidbit” in the international arena, so she was in a betrothed position all her life. This woman either brought potential suitors closer to her, then moved them away, depending on political games. Even Ivan the Terrible wooed Elizabeth I, but, like the other 25 contenders for the hand of the monarch, he was refused. Plus, Elizabeth I was very proud of her virgin status.

Ksenia Godunova

The daughter of Boris Godunov, Xenia, was wooed several times, since they tried to choose the most profitable party for the royal personage. The first contender for the hand and heart of Xenia was Prince Gustav of Sweden. But the wedding never took place, since it became known that the groom had arrived in Russia with his mistress. Then the representatives of the Habsburg dynasty were considered as candidates for husbands. John of Schleswig-Holstein (John Korolevich) is almost already married to Ksenia Godunova, but he accidentally died in Moscow. The search for suitors stopped because turmoil began in the country. False Dmitry I, who took the throne, dishonored Xenia (according to some sources: made her his concubine), and then sent her to a monastery, where she was tonsured as a nun.

Elizaveta Petrovna

Elizaveta Petrovna was born two years before the marriage of Peter I and Catherine I, because of which she was considered illegitimate and could not get a person of royal blood as a bridegroom. Nevertheless, Peter I made attempts to snatch his daughter. One of the potential contenders for Elizabeth's hand was Karl-August Holstein-Gottorp, but it never came to an engagement. Until Elizabeth ascended the throne, many princes called her suitors. The empress herself had affairs with her favorites at court, but she never got married.

Princess Ekaterina Dolgorukova

Ekaterina Alekseevna Dolgorukova was the bride of Peter II. She loved a completely different person, but obeyed the will of her father and went to Moscow to the Golovinsky Palace. There, the princess was granted the title "Her Highness the Empress-Bride". Ekaterina Dolgorukova never got married, because two weeks before the marriage, Peter II fell ill and died. After Anna Ioanovna ascended the throne, Dolgorukova was immediately exiled to Berezov.

Tatiana Nikolaevna - Grand Duchess

The second daughter of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II, Tatiana, was not destined to marry. The Grand Duchess was the bride of Alexander, the son of the Serbian monarch Peter I. The bride and groom met during a solemn family dinner in 1914, but talks about the wedding had to be postponed, since the First World War began. They say that when, after the October Revolution, the Grand Duchess was shot, her fiancé tried to commit suicide. On the death of the royal family who just did not try to cash in. Despite the tragic death of the imperial family in July 1918, many subsequently tried to impersonate the "surviving" heirs. More often than not, liars presented themselves as the supposedly surviving princess Anastasia.