tragic ancient Royal Marriages Throughout History that led to muder!

Controversial tragic ancient Royal Marriages Throughout History that led to muder

Henry VIII of England and Catherine Howard
Perhaps no monarch in history made as many catastrophic marriages than the legendary Henry VIII. Already two-thirds of the way through “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived” in 1540, the corpulent 49-year-old king married Catherine Howard, a tiny, carefree teenager he dubbed a “jewel of womanhood.” Henry was embarrassingly besotted with his young bride, pawing her in public while she attempted to ignore the oozing abscess in his leg. But Catherine’s enemies quickly uncovered that she had not been a virgin upon marriage, and also accused her of having an affair while married to the king. the king “changed his love for the Queen into hatred, and taken such grief at being deceived, that of late it was thought he had gone mad.” A terrified Catherine, now a “common harlot,” was beheaded in 1542, her body buried next to another of Henry’s discarded brides—her relative Anne Boleyn.
George I Was A Brute Who Beat Up His Wife And Locked Her Away,

Before he became a British king, George I was the Elector of Hanover in what is today modern Germany. In 1682, George's mother arranged for him to marry the very wealthy Sophia Dorothea of Celle, a Germanic noble. The marriage was unhappy from the start, especially since George felt it was totally within his rights to have mistresses, whom he flaunted in front of his young bride.
But things got worse when Sophia tried to find her own love story and began a relationship with Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, a Swedish count.
When George confronted his wife about the relationship, things got heated, and he actually physically attacked Sophia and began beating her. When brutish George left Hanover to assume his new role as King of Great Britain in 1714, he did so without Sophia at his side: he divorced her in 1694 and virtually imprisoned her for the rest of her life. The fact that Königsmarck was murdered for his love for Sophia only makes the story all the more tragic
Jérôme Bonaparte and Elizabeth Patterson
When Bonaparte family historian Theo Aronson writes that a marriage was “the most disastrous” match in the entire dysfunctional dynasty, that’s saying something. In 1803, the dashing, dissolute Jérôme was sent overseas by his big brother, Napoleon. Through a series of misadventures, he found himself in the American city of Baltimore and recklessly in love with Elizabeth Patterson, the town’s most beautiful 18 year old. Much to the chagrin of Jérôme’s horrified French handlers, they married. The bride wore a shocking, sheer-ish Empire gown. The ambitious Patterson was thrilled, claiming that she “would rather be the wife of Jérôme Bonaparte for one hour than the wife of any other man for life.”News of the marriage caused a firestorm in the Bonaparte clan. Napoleon demanded his brother come home to answer for his actions. Once in Napoleon’s presence, the weak-willed, shallow Jérôme crumbled, and he abandoned his American wife. But the steely, brilliant Elizabeth had a trump card—their son called Bo, born in 1805. Forever after, the more suitably remarried Jérôme, who his brother made King of Westphalia, would be haunted by his wittier, tougher ex-wife, who would make periodic tours of Europe to argue for her son’s rights and stick it to the Bonapartes
Queen Elizabeth overthrew her husband with the help of her lover!
Queen Isabella of France was around 12 years old when she married King Edward II of England in 1308. Though the relationship had happy moments in the beginning, Edward's obsession with a number of male favorites - first Piers Gaveston and then Hugh Despenser - put a strain on the marriage.
Isabella began an affair with Roger Mortimer, and with his help she launched a successful coup against her husband. Edward was soon imprisoned, and in 1327 died mysteriously.#history

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