and can you give me a lenghty story of what happened between the two.
2006-09-14 11:28:41 · 16 answers · asked by Mr. Tambourine Man 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
There have been many cases of royal persons loving commoners during the centuries...
I'll give you a few of the most recent....
Princess Margaret (sister of Queen Elizabeth of England). First fell in love with a man named Townsend, who she was not allowed to marry. She ended up marrying Anthony Armstrong-Jones, who was a photographer. Her sister the queen, conceded him a title and named him Lord Snowden...But he was not of royal blood.
Queen Elizabeths children have married commoners
Prince Charles first wife Diana, was of the lesser nobility, his second wife Camilla Parker Bowles is also of the lesser nobility.
Princess Anne first married Mark Philips, a lietenant in the Queens Dragoons, but a commoner none the less. The divorced in 1992 and whe subsequently remarried another commoner... Royal Navy Commander Timothy Laurence.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York married another commoner, Sarah Ferguson, in 1986, the marriage lasted ten years...
Prince Edward married Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999 she is a "cousin" of the royal family (eleventh cousin onece removed).
The most notorious morganatic marriage was in the early 20th. century, when King Edward VIII of England abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an american divorcée. (Evidently, this was the case of a MAN marrying outside royalty)
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Also both daughters of King Juan Carlos of Spain have married commoners... the Infanta Elena married Jaime de Marichalar in 1995, and the Infanta Cristina married Iñaki Urdangarín in 1997..
The most recent was Princess Sayako, the younger sister of the heir to the Throne of Japan, who married a commoner in 2005. Because of this marriage she lost her title of princess.
However she has just given birth to a son about two weeks ago, and the baby is now the second in the line of succesion, after the crown prince.
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden has an "unofficial" relationship with a commoner, Daniel Westling who is her "personal trainer".
And Princess Martha Louise of Norway married Ari Behns, a commoner in 2002.
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway also married a commoner Mette Marit, who besides being a commoner was an unwed mother of a 4 year old son. (Her childs father was a drug runner). This relationship caused rather a nasty uproar all over Europe, but he married her anyway, and they now have 2 children of their own...
2006-09-14 12:28:40 · answer #1 · answered by abuela Nany 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This could apply to King Edward VIII. He fell in love with an American divorcee, met with resistance from the establishment and was forced to abdicate the throne before he could marry her.
She wasn't a 'commoner' though, still some society lasy and the same can be said of Victoria and Elizabeth I's lovers, they were still Lords and members of the aristocracy.
2006-09-15 08:53:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Queen Elizabeth of England has a daughter , Anne. Anne married a commoner and had two children with him. It was quite a lengthy union but they have since divorced.
the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret also married a commoner. Lord Snowdon, a photographer. They also had a long union and divorced.
2006-09-16 16:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by tubby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Henry V's widow, Catherine of Valois, who was also a Princess of France before becoming Henry's queen, fell in love with and eventually married a commoner--Owen Tudor.
Their non-royal offspring eventually spawned the usurper Henry Tudor who later managed to become Henry VII.
2006-09-15 10:11:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
abuela seems to have most of the answers!
The film Mrs Brown, with Judi Dench playing Queen Victoria and Billy Connelly playing the Scots servant Mr Brown, seem to suggest that Queen Victoria "loved" him.
Princess Margaret loved various commoners and married one.
Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, has married two!
2006-09-15 02:57:53 · answer #5 · answered by Breeze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For you to ask if there's EVER been a case like this is like asking if apples come from an Apple tree. You could pretty much assume that a damn royal woman fell for a common man sometime in the THOUSANDS of years we've been on this planet.
2006-09-14 11:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by John 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Princess anne has married 2 commoners.
The queen didn't marry a commoner she married the son of the ex king of greece
2006-09-14 11:45:00 · answer #7 · answered by n2mustaches 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, Catherine the Great of Russia is said to have had several lovers from her army (they were generals) One of these generals was rumored to have fathered her two sons, the Grand Duke Peter and the Grand Duke Alexander
2006-09-15 10:28:12 · answer #8 · answered by jaspers mom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it was Queen Victoria. She had a lover whom she named as head of a particular order she created. There was some type of scandal and she "mysterious" (?) died a year later when she was gaining political momentum. Some said it was food poisoning.
2006-09-14 11:37:57 · answer #9 · answered by Link of Hyrule 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. No. A queen or saint named elizabeth I think.
2006-09-14 11:33:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋