Commoners who married Royals

HOPE COOKE LADY DIANA SPENCER Hope was a 20-year-old Arguably the most popular princess in modern history, Diana freshman traveling through India when she met Spencer became Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales Palden Thondup Namgyal, the Crown Prince of when she married Prince Charles (who previously dated (a small Himalayan nation) back in 1959. Diana’s older sister, Lady Sarah) at only 19 years old in 1981. When they married in 1963, she became Gyalmo of Though her family was part of the British aristocracy, and she the 12th (or Queen Consort of the 12th held the title of “Lady” once her dad became an Earl, Diana RITA HAYWORTH King) of Sikkim. Hope and her husband (who was not technically considered royalty at the time of her The old Hollywood icon was married KENDRA SPEARS divorced in 1980) wound up being the very last marriage. five times before her death at the Kendra Spears was a successful Queen Consort and King of Sikkim, which was age of 68. One of those five LEE RADZIWILL runway fashion model for years annexed by India and became the 22nd Indian marriages was to Prince Aly Khan, Lee (born Caroline Lee Bouvier) is the before marrying Prince Rahim Aga state in 1975. the Italian-born son of Aga Khan younger sister of Jackie Kennedy, the late Khan in 2013, at the age of 25. She (the Imam of Ismaili Muslims and a former first lady and widow of President John has since become known as descendant of the Prophet F. Kennedy. The American-born socialite, who Princess Salwa Aga Khan, and the Muhammad). During their had three marriages, was married to Poland’s couple has had two sons. tumultuous, four-year marriage, the Prince Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill from two had one daughter, Princess 1959 to 1974, when the two divorced after Yasmin Aga Khan, before officially having two children. divorcing in 1953.

GRACE KELLY Rita Hayworth was not the only iconic actress to leave Hollywood MARY ELIZABETH DONALDSON for a life of royalty. Academy Award- The Australia-born former advertising winning actress Grace Kelly was WALLIS SIMPSON executive became Her Royal Highness the one of the most famous women in The twice-divorced American socialite became Crown Princess of Denmark when she romantically involved with King Edward VIII of SARAH BUTLER the world even before she married married Prince Frederik of Denmark in Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, in England (while still technically married to her Texas-born Sarah Butler became a 2004. The two met at a pub during the second husband). He famously changed the KATE MIDDLETON Middle Eastern princess when she 1956. The couple had three children 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and (including Prince Albert, the course of England’s history when he abdicated Another beloved member of the British royal family was married Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid currently have four children together. the throne in order to marry her. While she never common born. Kate and Prince William met in 2001 while both al-Hussein (the Crown Prince of Iraq) in current Prince of Monaco) before Princess Mary has even claimed that a Grace died after suffering a stroke became known as “Her Royal Highness,” Wallis were attending St. Andrews University in Scotland. They dated 2000. She became known as Her Royal tarot card reader predicted her royal did become the Duchess of Windsor after on and off for nearly 10 years before marrying in 2011, at Highness Princess Sarah Zeid. and crashing her car at age 52 in future! 1982. marrying her husband (who was then known as which point Kate became Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor). Cambridge. - littlethings.com