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To me Queen Elizabeth has always looked like a pretty hard nut to crack. She's been the stern old queen for roughly 700 years now but we forget she once was young too. She fell in love with Philip when she was only 13 and their relationship is about the only thing that is tender about her.
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Poor Margaret's story is very sad. She fell in love with Peter Townsend, a divorced man 16 years her senior and was forbidden to marry him. Queen Elizabeth was sympathetic but the Church was not.
Eventually she ended up marrying Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Reportedly she accepted his proposal a day after she learnt that Peter Townsend was to be married to a young Belgian girl Marie-Luce Jamagne. Marie-Luce bore a striking resemblence to Margaret.
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Princess Anne married Mark Phillips, then a Lieutenant in the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards, at Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony that was televised around the world, with an estimated audience of 100 million. They divorced in 1992.
It was believed that the Queen had offered Phillips an earldom on his wedding day, as was customary for untitled men marrying into the Royal Family. However, Phillips did not accept the offer. The couple had two children, Peter Phillips and Zara Phillips, and they thus
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Grace Kelly was an American actress, but perhaps resembled a fairytale princess more than all of the royals. She married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, who was by most accounts a dour and controlling man. He banned her films from being aired and ordered her to quit her career.
Reportedly they grew closer before her stroke and fatal car accident in 1982.
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Caroline, heir presumptive to the Monaco throne and from the House of Grimaldi is the eldest daughter of Grace and Rainier. Her first marriage (pictured) was with Philippe Junot which lasted only 2 years. The Church agreed to a canoninical annulment.
She fell spectacularly in love with glamourous sportsman and and Italian heir Stefano Casighiri. They had 3 children before he died tragically at the age of 30. Many can still remember how grief-stricken she was. It was in this time that people b
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Sarah Ferguson married Charles's younger brother Andrew in 1986. The public, hungry for another royal spectacle after Charles and Diana couldn't really warm up to Fergie. She was a ginger with freckles, her weight fluctuated and she didn't have the same sense of style as her sister-in-law. Andrew and Fergie separated in 1991, but she was allowed to keep her non-royal title as a courtesy. She is not invited to Will and Kate's wedding.
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Lady Diana Spencer came from a very old aristocratic English family. She married Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne a few days after she turned 20. It was pretty much a disaster from the start seeing that poor Charles was in love with poor Camilla Parker-Bowles who was an unsuitalbe match. So he married poor, innocent Diana because he kinda had to. And she became the Princess of Hearts. The world fell in love with her even if Charles didn't.
The world later learnt that
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Camilla Parker-Bowles was the (Much Hated By The Public) rival for Charles's love. Charles and Camilla met in 1970, a whole decade before his marriage to Diana, but Camilla was deemed unsuitable as bride. Their affair continued through the years and was one of the greatest reasons for the royal split. The couple finally got married in 2005, 8 years after Diana's death. Camilla also hold the title of Princess of Wales, but she prefers to go by the lower ranked Duchess of Cornwall to avoid competi
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Sure, her official title is Catherine Duchess of Cambridge but we'll leave that title for the history books. She'll always be Kate Middleton to us. The new royal instantly charmed the world when
her engagement to Prince William was announced last year. Since then, Kate has risen to become a style icon who epitomizes grace and elegance. Whether she's sipping tea with Michelle Obama, or sitting courtside at Wimbledon – heck, even when she's just pop
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