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(#7) Marie Antoinette
- Dec. at 38 (1755-1793)
When Marie Antoinette left Austria to marry the heir to the French throne in 1770, she was only 14 years old. The wedding disaster went beyond the fact that she and Louis XVI of France barely knew each other. The French prepared an elaborate white and silver dress covered in diamonds for the foreign bride – but it didn't fit.
The dressmakers miscalculated the teen bride's measurements, and it was much too small. Marie Antoinette walked down the aisle with a gap in the back of her dress, which was deemed scandalous. This wasn't even the worst part of her union – her marriage eventually led the reviled queen to the guillotine, where she lost her head during the French Revolution.
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(#14) Elizabeth II
- 92
On November 20, 1947, Princess Elizabeth planned to wear the famous Fringe Tiara at her wedding. The elaborate tiara, made of diamonds, gold, and silver in 1919, had a long history in the royal family. But on the morning of her wedding, disaster struck.
According to the royal jeweler, "the Fringe was given to Queen Elizabeth on her wedding day, and the hairdresser broke it." Thinking quickly, the tiara was sent to the House of Garrard workshop – the same designers who originally made the tiara – with a police escort:
We fixed the tiara that morning, had it sent back to Queen Elizabeth, and then she got married in it. You don't expect the royals to have those sorts of mix-ups, but they do!
They say rain is unlucky on a wedding day, but apparently a broken tiara is good luck: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have been married more than 70 years.
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(#10) Harthacnut
- Dec. at 24 (1018-1042)
King Harthacnut, ruler of Denmark and England, became the most memorable guest at a wedding in 1042. The king abruptly dropped dead in the middle of a toast: "As he stood drinking... he fell suddenly to the earth with a tremendous struggle."
Harthacnut was the last Scandinavian ruler of England, replaced by Edward the Conqueror.
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(#4) Diana, Princess of Wales
- Dec. at 36 (1961-1997)
Diana Spencer faced major jitters on July 29, 1981, and nearly called off her wedding to Charles, Prince of Wales, just days before the ceremony.
"I can't marry him, I can't do this, this is absolutely unbelievable,” she reportedly told her sister. Diana suspected that Charles was still secretly seeing his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles (and she was probably right).
To make matters worse, she spilled some of her perfume on her wedding dress, and it left a noticeable stain. Her makeup artist suggested she hold the stained spot as she walked, making it look like she was simply holding up her dress instead of hiding something.
Diana wasn't the only one with doubts, either. In 1994, Charles revealed in a candid authorized biography that he was forced into the wedding by his domineering father, Prince Philip.
After agreeing to go through with the marriage, Diana still mixed up the prince's name, calling him Philip rather than Charles. In 1996, the pair divorced.
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(#11) Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- Dec. at 60 (1459-1519)
In the past, royals often arranged marriages for their heirs when they were still children. But not many arranged marriages top the 1506 agreement to marry off a fetus.
That year, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I arranged a double-marriage between his heirs and King Vladislas of Hungary and Bohemia. The alliance created intense bonds between the two royal families, but it came at a high price. In the first wedding, Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand, who was three at the time, was promised to marry Vladislas's daughter Anna, also three. In the second wedding, Maximilian's granddaughter Mary, who was still a baby, would marry the fetus in Vladislas's wife's belly as long as it was a boy.
The arranged marriages were held in 1515, with tween and teen brides.
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(#1) Philip IV of Spain
- Dec. at 60 (1605-1665)
King Philip IV of Spain should have known better when he married his own niece. The Spanish Hapsburg line was already dangerously inbred, to the point that hereditary deformities were killing off huge numbers of children in the family. But that didn't stop the troubling union in 1644.
The wedding produced the tragic King Charles II, who could barely function due to genetic abnormalities. Genetic tests show the Hapsburg gene pool was so familial that Charles was almost as inbred as a child produced by a brother impregnating his own sister.
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Every European royal family seems to have a close and complicated relationship, and the members of these royal families are now lived in various countries in Europe. Royal weddings can be said to be the most important moments that have attracted the attention of the world. However, some royal weddings in history were worse than people think, such as forgotten vows, inappropriate rings, or unruly weddings, weddings are not immune to flaws.
No matter how hard people work, they still have many weddings that are disastrous, and these weddings were recorded in history. This random tool lists 14 of the most disastrous royal weddings in history, one of the most famous weddings is Diana's.
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