#royal couples

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Princess Marie Astrid and Archduke Carl Christian

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the modern royal couples:

Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge: Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Aries, Taurus, Aquarius

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex: Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, Libra, Pisces, Gemini

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Spouses who became rivals (5/?)

Isabella of France and Edward II of England

Isabella married Edward II of England when she was twelve and he was in his twenties. In part due to her young age and her husband’s preference for his male favorites (the sexual element of these relationships cannot be determined with certainty), Isabella initially found herself overshadowed as queen. However, as time passed Isabella would prove herself a valuable support for Edward in his conflicts with his barons, acting numerous times as a liaison to her natal family in France and shoring up support in England. The exile and later murder of Piers Gaveston, Edward’s favorite,  would further expand Isabella’s political role even as she gave birth to four children. Yet with the rise of the Despensers, Edward’s new favorites, Isabella found her position in jeopardy and her own relationship with her husband deteriorating. Following the seizure of her lands and children by the Despensers, who treated her as a foreign enemy, Isabella traveled to her brother, the King of France, there denouncing those that came between her and her husband and assuming the garments of a widow. Not long after she began an affair with disgruntled Marcher lord, Roger Mortimer, and having had her eldest son brought to her, began to raise a mercenary army to invade England. Edward and the Despensers fled at their approach, yet once captured the latter two were brutally executed, Edward deposed and placed under house arrest and her son named Edward III. Legend holds that Isabella ordered her husband murdered with a red hot poker, however the validity of this is dubious and would shape her later reputation as the “she-wolf of France”, originating in the 18th century. Isabella would rule with Mortimer as regent for her son for four years until Edward III overthrew them and executed Mortimer. Isabella herself would enter a luxurious retirement until her death in 1358, at which time she was buried in her wedding dress with her husband’s heart.

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We’re so psyched for the new season of The Crown tonight that we went and found even more scandalous royal couples in history.

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the old royal couples:

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Capricorn, Gemini, Cancer, Leo

Prince Charles and Princess Diana: Aquarius, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Libra

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: Taurus, Pisces, Aries, Virgo

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Spouses who became rivals (3/?)

Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England

Less than three months after her annulment from Louis VII of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry II, the future king of England, in 1152, a union which at a stroke shifted the balance of power in Europe, uniting their vast holdings into what amounted to an empire. Despite the formidable power and personality possessed by each spouse, the couple maintained their union successfully for two decades, producing eight children and ruling collaboratively on both sides of the Channel. However, in 1173, Henry’s iron grip on power and interference in their domains drove Eleanor and her three oldest sons to revolt. In a move that shocked contemporaries, Eleanor encouraged her teenage sons to go to the court of her ex-husband, Louis, their father’s arch-rival, there to plan their rebellion. Eleanor herself tried to escape, on horseback, dressed as a man, but was captured by Henry’s men. Despite the formidable odds against him, Henry managed to crush his sons’ rebellion and bring them to heel. Eleanor, on the other hand, would be imprisoned in England for sixteen years, released only briefly when Henry required her influence to force peace between their feuding offspring. After her betrayal, Henry made efforts to annul his marriage or place Eleanor in a nunnery, but she stubbornly resisted and indeed succeeded in outliving her husband. She was freed by her son, Richard, upon Henry’s death, and would spend her widowhood as guardian of what she and Henry had once built and what she had once threatened to destroy.