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* 29 December 1983: [[Caroline, Princess of Hanover|Princess Caroline of Monaco]] and [[Stefano Casiraghi]] |
* 29 December 1983: [[Caroline, Princess of Hanover|Princess Caroline of Monaco]] and [[Stefano Casiraghi]] |
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* 1 December 1984: [[Norihito, Prince Takamado|Prince Norihito of Mikasa]] (Japan) and [[Hisako, Princess Takamado|Hisako Tottori]] |
* 1 December 1984: [[Norihito, Prince Takamado|Prince Norihito of Mikasa]] (Japan) and [[Hisako, Princess Takamado|Hisako Tottori]] |
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* 23 July 1986: [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York|Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom]] and [[Sarah, Duchess of York|Sarah Ferguson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/prince_andrews_wedding |title=History – Prince Andrew's wedding (pictures, video, facts & news) |publisher=BBC|accessdate=29 April 2011}}</ref> |
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* 27 May 1987 [[Prince Jean of Luxembourg]] and Hélène Suzanna Vestur |
* 27 May 1987 [[Prince Jean of Luxembourg]] and Hélène Suzanna Vestur |
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* 29 June 1990: [[Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan|Fumihito, Prince Aya of Japan]] and [[Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan|Kiko Kawashima]] |
* 29 June 1990: [[Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan|Fumihito, Prince Aya of Japan]] and [[Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan|Kiko Kawashima]] |
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* 13 June 2015: [[Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland]] (Sweden) and model [[Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland|Sofia Hellqvist]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33120840 |title= Sweden royal wedding: Prince Carl Philip marries ex-reality star |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 13 June 2015|website=|publisher= BBC|access-date= 14 May 2020|quote=}}</ref> |
* 13 June 2015: [[Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland]] (Sweden) and model [[Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland|Sofia Hellqvist]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33120840 |title= Sweden royal wedding: Prince Carl Philip marries ex-reality star |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 13 June 2015|website=|publisher= BBC|access-date= 14 May 2020|quote=}}</ref> |
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* 19 May 2018: [[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex]] (United Kingdom) and actress [[Meghan, Duchess of Sussex|Meghan Markle]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.royal.uk/royal-wedding-2018 |title=The Royal wedding 2018|author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=|publisher= The Royal Household|access-date= 14 May 2020|quote=}}</ref> |
* 19 May 2018: [[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex]] (United Kingdom) and actress [[Meghan, Duchess of Sussex|Meghan Markle]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.royal.uk/royal-wedding-2018 |title=The Royal wedding 2018|author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=|publisher= The Royal Household|access-date= 14 May 2020|quote=}}</ref> |
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* 15 September 2018: Duchess Sophie of Württemberg and Maximilien d'Andigné |
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* 12 October 2018: [[Princess Eugenie|Princess Eugenie of York]] (United Kingdom) and bar manager [[Jack Brooksbank]]<ref name=tele>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2018/10/12/princess-eugenies-royal-wedding-jack-brooksbank-live-updates/|title=Princess Eugenie's royal wedding to Jack Brooksbank: Live updates from the Windsor Castle celebrations|last=Davies|first=Gareth|date=12 October 2018|work=The Telegraph|access-date=12 October 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> |
* 12 October 2018: [[Princess Eugenie|Princess Eugenie of York]] (United Kingdom) and bar manager [[Jack Brooksbank]]<ref name=tele>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2018/10/12/princess-eugenies-royal-wedding-jack-brooksbank-live-updates/|title=Princess Eugenie's royal wedding to Jack Brooksbank: Live updates from the Windsor Castle celebrations|last=Davies|first=Gareth|date=12 October 2018|work=The Telegraph|access-date=12 October 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> |
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* 29 October 2018: [[Ayako Moriya|Princess Ayako of Takamado]] (Japan) and Kei Moriya<ref name="JT-Wedding">{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/national/japans-princess-ayako-weds-commoner-kei-moriya-ceremony-tokyos-meiji-shrine/#.W9jhTddKjIV|title=Japan’s Princess Ayako weds commoner Kei Moriya in ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo|publisher=The Japan Times|date=29 October 2018|accessdate=30 October 2018}}</ref> |
* 29 October 2018: [[Ayako Moriya|Princess Ayako of Takamado]] (Japan) and Kei Moriya<ref name="JT-Wedding">{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/national/japans-princess-ayako-weds-commoner-kei-moriya-ceremony-tokyos-meiji-shrine/#.W9jhTddKjIV|title=Japan’s Princess Ayako weds commoner Kei Moriya in ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo|publisher=The Japan Times|date=29 October 2018|accessdate=30 October 2018}}</ref> |
Revision as of 19:39, 19 February 2024
Royal marriages to commoners have historically been uncommon, due to traditions of members of royal families, especially high-level ones, only marrying other persons considered to be royalty, sometimes with penalties for royals who married far below their rank, deemed morganatic marriage. Often, alliances could be created between countries or strengthened within a country through intermarriage of two royal families. On the other hand, occasionally a member of a royal family married a commoner simply due to romantic feelings or physical attraction, and possibly to endear themselves to the general population by establishing that sense of connection. This trend has accelerated and become more accepted in modern times.
Before Common Era
- Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Tiye (14th century BC)
- Esther and Ahasuerus, 5th century BC
Early modern
- 1356: King Casimir III the Great of Poland and Krystyna Rokiczana, widow of a merchant, as his third wife.
- January 1557: Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Philippine Welser, daughter of a merchant. After her death, he married dynastically to Anna Juliana Gonzaga and fathered Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress.
- 4 July 1568: King Eric XIV of Sweden and Karin Månsdotter, daughter of a prison guard. He was deposed within a year.
- 1707: Tsar Peter the Great of Russia and Marta Skowrońska, who was born a peasant, but ended up succeeding her husband as Catherine I of Russia. They are the ancestors of the Russian Imperial Family.
19th century
- 3 September 1823: Archduke John of Austria and Anna Plochl, daughter of a postmaster. Their romance was immortalized in the 1929 Austrian film Archduke John
- 28 December 1833 Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Queen Dowager of Spain, and her bodyguard Agustín Fernando Muñoz.[1] On 23 June 1844 he was created Duke of Riánsares by her daughter Queen Isabella II of Spain
- 5 April 1836: Charles Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Capua and Penelope Smyth, at Gretna Green
- 8 January 1847: Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and actress Sarah Fairbrother,[2] in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772
- 4 June 1848: Infanta Josefina Fernanda of Spain and writer José Güell y Renté
- 20 April 1850: Prince Adalbert of Prussia and dancer Therese Elssler
- 7 August 1850: King Frederick VII of Denmark and dancer/actress Louise Rasmussen as his third wife
- 28 May 1859: Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria and actress Henriette Mendel[3]
- 21 August 1860: Duke Ernest of Württemberg and actress/singer Natalie Eischborn
- 4 February 1868: Archduke Heinrich Anton of Austria and singer Leopoldine Hofmann[4]
- 14 November 1868: Prince August of Württemberg and Marie Bethge
- 10 June 1869: King Ferdinand II of Portugal and American actress as his second wife Elise Hensler, created Countess of Elda
- 18 October 1869: King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Rosa Vercellana as his second wife, daughter of an Officer in the King's Guards
- 1882: Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia and Nadezhda Alexandrovna von Dreyer,[5] daughter of the Orenburg police chief
- 30 October 1889: Albert I, Prince of Monaco and American Alice Heine as his second wife
- 1889: Archduke John Salvator of Austria and dancer Ludmilla Stubel. They disappeared the following year off the coast of Cape Horn
20th century
- 27 January 1903: Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria and prostitute Wilhelmine Adamovicz
- 25 September 1907: Archduchess Louise of Austria, former Crown Princess of Saxony, and musician Enrico Toselli
- 15 August 1909: Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria and Bertha Czuber,[6] daughter of a mathematician
- 9 January 1913: Archduchess Eleonora of Austria and sailor Alfons von Kloss
- 16 November 1916: Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia and Nikolai Kulikovsky
- 26 September 1917 Afonso, Duke of Porto (after the 5 October 1910 revolution to overthrow the Portuguese monarchy) and American heiress Nevada Stoody Hayes
- 1 February 1920: Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark and American heiress Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds
- 23 November 1922: Princess Dagmar of Denmark and Jørgen Castenskjold, son of the Court Chamberlain
- 11 February 1924: Prince Erik of Denmark and Canadian Lois Booth
- 10 June 1924: Prince Viggo of Denmark and American Eleanor Margaret Green
- 7 November 1931: Prince Nicolae of Romania and Ioana Dumitrescu-Doletti
- 11 March 1932: Prince Lennart of Sweden and Karin Nissvandt
- 8 March 1934: Prince Sigvard of Sweden and Erica Maria Patzek
- 3 June 1937: Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson
- 19 February 1946: Prince Carl Johan of Sweden and journalist Kerstin Wijkmark
- 24 July 1946: Louis II, Prince of Monaco and actress Ghislaine Dommanget
- 21 April 1947: Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark and British Army major Richard Brandram
- 4 February 1948: Prince Oluf of Denmark and Annie Helene Dorrit Puggard-Müller
- 24 May 1949: Prince Flemming of Denmark and Alice Ruth Nielsen
- 27 May 1949 Prince Aly Khan and actress Rita Hayworth
- 4 December 1951: Princess Antoinette of Monaco and tennis champion Alexandre-Athenase Noghès
- 10 October 1952: Atsuko, Princess Yori of Japan and Takamasa Ikeda
- 15 May 1953: Princess Ragnhild of Norway and shipowner Erling Lorentzen
- 18 April 1956: Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and actress Grace Kelly
- 10 April 1959: Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan and Michiko Shōda
- 20 December 1959: Emperor Mohammed Reza I of Iran and Farah Diba
- 3 March 1960: Takako, Princess Suga of Japan and Hisanaga Shimazu
- 6 May 1960: Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom and photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones[7]
- 12 January 1961: Princess Astrid of Norway and Johan Ferner
- 25 May 1961: King Hussein of Jordan and Toni Gardiner
- 2 December 1961 Princess Antoinette of Monaco and Dr. Jean-Charles Rey
- 20 March 1963: Palden Thondup Namgyal, Chogyal (King) of Sikkim and Hope Cooke
- 30 June 1964: Princess Margaretha of Sweden and John Ambler
- 7 February 1965: Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark and artist Marina Karella
- 16 December 1966: Princess Yasuko of Mikasa (Japan) and Tadateru Konoe
- 10 January 1967: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven
- 1 March 1967 Prince Charles of Luxembourg and American Joan Dillon
- 13 January 1968: Prince Ingolf of Denmark and Inge Terney
- 29 August 1968: Harald, Crown Prince of Norway and Sonja Haraldsen
- 9 February 1971: Prince Christian of Denmark and Anne Dorte Maltoft-Nielsen
- 11 September 1971: Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein and Isabelle de l'Arbre de Malander
- 8 July 1972: Prince Richard of Gloucester and Birgitte van Deurs[8]
- 12 October 1972: Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria and physician Carlos Zurita y Delgado
- 24 December 1972: King Hussein I of Jordan and Alia Toukan
- 14 November 1973: Princess Anne of the United Kingdom and Mark Phillips[9]
- 15 June 1974: Princess Christina of Sweden and Tord Magnuson
- 28 June 1975: Princess Christina of the Netherlands and Jorge Guillermo
- 25 December 1975: Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah and Haminah binti Hamidun
- 19 June 1976: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Silvia Sommerlath[10]
- 7 December 1976: Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland and model Lilian Davies
- 15 June 1978: King Hussein I of Jordan and Lisa Halaby
- 29 June 1978: Princess Caroline of Monaco and property developer Philippe Junot
- 7 November 1980: Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (Japan) and Nobuko Asō
- 20 July 1983: Princess Elena of Romania and Robin Medforth-Mills
- 28 July 1983: Princess Antoinette of Monaco and John Gilpin (dancer)
- 4 October 1983: Princess Irina of Romania and John Kreuger
- 14 October 1983: Princess Masako of Mikasa (Japan) and Masayuki Sen
- 29 December 1983: Princess Caroline of Monaco and Stefano Casiraghi
- 1 December 1984: Prince Norihito of Mikasa (Japan) and Hisako Tottori
- 27 May 1987 Prince Jean of Luxembourg and Hélène Suzanna Vestur
- 29 June 1990: Fumihito, Prince Aya of Japan and Kiko Kawashima
- 12 December 1992: Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and Royal Navy officer Timothy Laurence[11]
- 9 June 1993: Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan and Masako Owada
- 10 June 1993: Prince Abdullah of Jordan and Rania Al-Yassin
- 18 September 1993: Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg and Marc Victor Cunningham
- 29 January 1994: Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Julie Elizabeth Houston Ongaro
- February 1994: Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn of Thailand and Sujarinee Vivacharawongse
- 1 July 1995: Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece and Marie-Chantal Miller
- 1 July 1995: Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and bodyguard Daniel Ducruet
- 18 November 1995: Prince Joachim of Denmark and Alexandra Manley
- 24 July 1996: Princess Margareta of Romania and Radu Duda
- 4 October 1997: Infanta Cristina of Spain and Iñaki Urdangarin
- 29 August 1998: Princess Sophie of Romania and Alain Michel Biarneix
- 19 June 1999: Prince Edward of the United Kingdom and Sophie Rhys-Jones[12]
- 9 July 1999: Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark and Carlos Morales
21st century
- 29 January 2000 Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein and Angela Brown
- 18 February 2000 King Letsie III of Lesotho and 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
- 10 February 2001: Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn of Thailand and Srirasmi Suwadee
- 19 May 2001: Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands and Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst
- 25 August 2001: Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby
- 12 October 2001: King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Salma Bennani
- 2 February 2002: Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
- 24 May 2002: Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn
- 8 February 2003: Prince Alexander of Liechtenstein and Astrid Kohl
- 12 April 2003 : Prince Laurent of Belgium and land surveyor Claire Louise Coombs
- 12 September 2003: Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and acrobat Adans Lopez Peres
- 24 April 2004: Prince Friso of the Netherlands and Mabel Wisse Smit
- 14 May 2004: Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson
- 22 May 2004: Felipe, Prince of Asturias (Spain) and journalist Letizia Ortiz
- 15 November 2005: Sayako, Princess Nori of Japan and Yoshiki Kuroda
- 29 September 2006: Prince Louis of Luxembourg and Tessy Antony
- 24 May 2008: Prince Joachim of Denmark and Marie Cavallier
- 19 June 2010: Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and her personal trainer Daniel Westling
- 25 August 2010: Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark and Tatiana Blatnik
- 29 April 2011: Prince William of Wales (United Kingdom) and Catherine Middleton[13]
- 2 July 2011: Albert II, Prince of Monaco and Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock[14]
- 8 June 2013: Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (Sweden) and British-American financier Christopher O'Neill[15]
- 31 August 2013: Prince Rahim Aga Khan and American model Kendra Irene Spears
- 17 September 2013: Prince Felix of Luxembourg and Claire Lademacher
- 27 May 2014: Princess Noriko of Takamado (Japan) and Kunimaro Senge
- 13 June 2015: Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (Sweden) and model Sofia Hellqvist[16]
- 19 May 2018: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (United Kingdom) and actress Meghan Markle[17]
- 12 October 2018: Princess Eugenie of York (United Kingdom) and bar manager Jack Brooksbank[18]
- 29 October 2018: Princess Ayako of Takamado (Japan) and Kei Moriya[19]
- 1 May 2019: King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand and Suthida Tidjai[20]
- 20 July 2020: Archduchess Eleonore of Austria and Jérôme d'Ambrosio[21]
- 12 December 2020: Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark and Nina Flohr[22]
- 26 October 2021: Princess Mako of Akishino (Japan) and Kei Komuro[23]
- 2022: Archduke Karl, Archduke of Austria and Christian Nicolau de Almeida
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- ^ Kingston 1919, p. 149–161
- ^ Kingston 1919, p. 272–284
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- ^ Kingston 1919, p. 176–188
- ^ Kingston 1919, p. 135–148
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