Eternal? In the context of modern realities, these questions sound very rhetorical.
Meanwhile, love is the brightest and strongest feeling.
And now we will tell you the most famous stories love that will prove this to you.
1. Romeo and Juliet
The most popular couple in the whole world, which has become synonymous with the word “love”. "Romeo and Juliet", a tragedy from the pen of William Shakespeare, about two teenagers from warring families who fall in love with each other. For the sake of their feelings, they decided to sacrifice their own lives, which finally reconciled the warring families.
Mark Antony and Cleopatra fell in love at first sight. Since they were quite influential people, Egypt only benefited from their romance, but the Romans, on the contrary, were afraid of the growing influence of the Egyptians. Despite everything, Cleopatra and Mark Antony entered into. One day, while fighting against the Romans, Mark was informed of Cleopatra's false death. Unable to find the strength to live on, he committed suicide. Upon learning of the death of her lover, Cleopatra also committed suicide.
Sir Lancelot fell in love with Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur. Their passion flared up very slowly, but one day they were caught by surprise in the queen's bedroom. The escape attempt failed, or rather, only Lancelot escaped. The queen was sentenced to death penalty for treason. However, Lancelot saved her from certain death. At the same time, a split of the knights occurred Round table into two groups, weakening the influence of King Arthur. The lovers had to part – Lancelot ended his days as a hermit, and Guinevere became a nun.
The story of the unhappy love of Tristan and Isolde also took place during the reign of King Arthur. Isolde, daughter of the King of Ireland, became engaged to King Mark of Cornwall. Tristan, King Mark's nephew, was to accompany Isolde to Cornwall. However, young people fall in love with each other. But, despite this, the royal wedding still took place, although the intrigue with Tristan continues after. In the end, the deceived king finds out about love relationships his wife, but forgives her, exiling Tristan from Cornwall.
In Brittany, Tristan met Isolde, who was very similar to his beloved. He married her, although the marriage could not be called happy. One day he became very ill and sent for his beloved, in the hope of healing. He agreed with the captain of the ship that if Isolde arrived, he would raise white sails, if not, then black ones. However, Tristan's wife deceived him, saying that the ship's sails were black. Tristan died of grief without waiting for his beloved, and soon she died of a broken heart.
Helen of Troy is one of the most beautiful women world literature. She married the king of Sparta, Menelaus. However, she was kidnapped by Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, and taken to Troy. For the sake of the liberation of Helen, a huge army headed by the brother of Menelaus headed to Troy. Troy was destroyed, and the beautiful Elena returned to Sparta, to her happy family life with Menelaus.
The love story of Orpheus and Eurydice – ancient greek myth about the desperate and courageous love of a man for a nymph. They lived in love and harmony until Aristaeus began to pursue Eurydice, greek god land and Agriculture. Fleeing from his pursuit, Eurydice fell into a snake's nest, where she was fatally stung. Orpheus, distraught with grief, sang sad songs that moved both the gods and the nymphs to pity. They advised him to go down to the kingdom of the dead, where his music moved Hades and Persephone to pity. They agreed to return Eurydice to earth, but set a condition - Orpheus should not turn around and look at her. But he was unable to fulfill this condition, and she disappeared again, forever.
Napoleon married Josephine for convenience when he was 26 years old. She was older than him and much richer. However, after some time, the couple fell in love with each other, although they indulged in infidelity. They stayed together due to mutual respect, but separated due to Josephine's infertility.
Sacrifice in relationships is not for everyone. 20 years passed after the separation and before the new reunion. for long years. Soon after the wedding, Odysseus went to war. Despite the dwindling hopes for the return of her husband, Penelope refused her suitors exactly 108 times, just as Odysseus resisted the charms of the sorceress who promised him eternal youth. After 20 years, Odysseus returned to his wife and son and the family was finally reunited.
Francesca, being married to terrible person Gianciotto Malatesta, fell in love with his brother, Paolo. However, soon the deceived husband found out about everything and killed both of them.
10. Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is about the love and hate between Scarlett and Rhett Butler. They quarreled, then made up, only to quarrel again. Scarlett can't decide who she really needs. Having chosen Rhett, they again do not agree in character and finally break up.
Orphan Jane gets a job as a governess in the house of the rich man Edward Rochester, love breaks out between them and they decide to get married. But on the wedding day, the bride finds out that her groom is already married. Jane escapes and returns only after Rochester's house is destroyed by fire, where his wife died and he himself became blind. Jane remains by her lover's side, and their love lasts until the end of their lives.
A romantic and tragic story about unattainable love, written by Nizami Ganja. Leyli and Kays fall in love while still schoolchildren. However, they are soon forbidden to communicate, and Qais goes to live in the desert, where he becomes known as Majnun - a madman. There he meets a Bedouin who promised him to return his beloved.
However, the lovers still cannot be together because of Leili's father. Soon she becomes the wife of another man. However, after the death of her husband, Leili still meets with Majnun, although they could not be together. After death they were buried together.
The story of a monk and a nun who, despite everything, fell in love with each other and conceived a child, after which they secretly got married. But Fultbert, Heloise's uncle, hides his niece in the monastery and orders Abelard to be castrated. Having gone through troubles and adversity, they continued to love each other until the end of their lives.
Pyramus and Thisbe had been friends since childhood, but their parents were against the wedding. One day, they decided to meet at dawn near a mulberry tree. Thisbe arrived first and noticed a lion who had come to drink from a spring located near a tree. The predator's mouth was bloody, and Thisbe began to run away from him. On the way, she lost a scarf, which the lion liked. Pyramus, who came to the tree, decided that the lion had killed his beloved and pierced himself with his own sword. Coming out of hiding, Thisbe saw the dead Pyramus and killed herself with his sword.
Darcy is a typical representative of the aristocracy, and Elizabeth is one of the five daughters of a gentleman with very modest incomes. Jane Austen's novel describes the whole story of the birth of love between two representatives of different social classes, who cannot be together, nor can they love someone else.
Salim, the son of the Mongol emperor Akbar, fell in love with the courtesan Anarkali. But his father resisted their love in every possible way, trying to alienate the lovers from each other. However, Salim did not accept his father’s decision and declared war on him. Salim was defeated and sentenced to death. Anarkali decides to help her lover by giving up her love to save Salim. She was buried alive in a brick wall in front of Salim.
Pocahontas, an Indian princess, daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Powhatan tribe, first saw Europeans in 1607. She turned her attention to John Smith, who was captured and tortured by her fellow tribesmen. Pocahontas saved him from death, and he soon became a member of the tribe. Smith and Pocahontas became friends, and the princess visited Jamestown, giving him letters from her father.
However, on one of her next visits she was told that Smith was dead. After some time, Pocahontas is captured by Sir Samuel Argall, hoping to use her as an intermediary in the release of English prisoners. While in captivity, the princess becomes a Christian and takes the name Rebecca. A year later, she marries John Ralph, and one day dates John Smith, 8 years later. This is their last meeting.
Back in 1612, teenage girl Arjumand Banu became the wife of 15-year-old Shah Jahan, ruler of the Mughal Empire. After a while, she took the name Mumtaz Mahal and bore her husband 14 children, becoming his beloved wife. She died in 1629, and the emperor ordered the erection of a monument to his beloved wife. It took 20 years of work, 1,000 elephants and 20,000 workers, and the result was the Taj Mahal monument. After a while, Shah Jahan overthrew him own son, and, while imprisoned in the Red Fort in Agra, he looked at the monument of his beloved, where he was subsequently buried.
The young scientist Marie Sklodowska spent countless hours in the library, where she met Pierre Curie, the director of one of the laboratories in which she worked. Pierre courted her for a long time and made repeated attempts to propose marriage. In 1895 they got married, and in 1898 with common effort radium and polonium were discovered. In 1903 they received Nobel Prize, and a year later Pierre died. Marie decided to continue their common cause, and in 1911 she received another Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Marie died in 1934 from leukemia.
Victoria was a cheerful and cheerful girl. Having ascended the throne in 1837, she married Prince Albert three years later. The couple had 9 children, they loved each other dearly.
After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria did not appear in public for three years. Her solitude caused criticism and bewilderment. Gradually she returned to public life, although she never stopped mourning for her husband, until her own death in 1901. Her reign was the longest in history English history, during which Britain became a world power on which “the sun never sets.”
1. Cleopatra and Mark Antony
This is, without a doubt, the most famous love story, repeatedly portrayed in plays and films. Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, was very charismatic woman with a charming voice (contemporaries say nothing about her beauty). She constantly fought for the right to be considered the ruler of her country with her own relatives, and in order to finally establish herself as the queen of Egypt, she was forced to look for a patron, and found him in the person of 52-year-old Gaius Julius Caesar. 21-year-old Cleopatra was able to conquer the great conqueror and became Caesar's mistress. He was already married, but this did not stop him from taking Cleopatra with him to Rome, along with their common son Caesarion. The Romans were quite worried about the fact that Caesarion could become the heir of the great Caesar. But it didn’t come to that - Caesar, as we all know, was stabbed to death at the next meeting of the Senate.
Cleopatra returned to Egypt, where she learned about the formation of the next ruler of Rome. She decided to seduce him, and to carry out her plan, she sailed to Tarsus (present-day Turkey) on a special ship. Anyway, Mark Antony fell in love with Cleopatra, and soon after they became lovers, Cleopatra bore Antony two twins.
The end of the relationship, as well as the lives of both lovers, was put by the confrontation between Mark Antony and Octavian, Caesar’s nephew (Antony, by the way, was married to Octavian’s sister, but left her for Cleopatra). Mark Antony returned to Rome, quarreled with Octavian, and a war began, which ended in the complete defeat of the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. After Octavian's troops entered Egypt, Cleopatra hid in the mausoleum, and Anthony was told that she had committed suicide. Mark Antony, without hesitation, threw himself on the sword and died in the arms of his beloved. Cleopatra killed herself after she learned that she would be carried through the streets of Rome in a carriage, as a symbol of defeated Egypt.
2. Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin
In 1761, Catherine the Great was not yet Great, she was just the wife of a not particularly wise tsar Peter III. After only a year of reign, he was deprived of power (not without the help of Catherine) and killed (maybe Catherine herself sent the killers, there is such an option). After this, a prominent military man, Grigory Potemkin, stands guard over the life and peace of the queen.
She was never indifferent to male beauty and strong character, and fell madly in love with Potemkin, showering him with money and honors. To the credit of the latter, Potemkin really began to serve his queen faithfully. Ekaterina, being very strong spirit a woman who loved Potemkin so much that she even wrote him tender love letters, which she almost never did. Potemkin and Catherine, according to some sources, even got married, although the fact of the wedding is doubtful among many historians. The wedding took place in 1774 in the Church of the Ascension, which has not survived to this day.
Catherine and Potemkin eventually became just comrades-in-arms, but Catherine until the end of her days had very warm feelings for her secret husband. After his death at the age of 52, she lost heart and was almost constantly depressed.
3. Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine
In the fall of 1795, Josephine, in her thirties, met with Napoleon, who had just turned 26 years old. To him she seemed like a very elegant and graceful lady, noble and even somewhat proud. Perhaps the success was also reinforced by the fact that Josephine managed to perfectly play the role of the supplicant.
In general, Napolin and Josephine got engaged, and they did it at a time when no one could yet suspect dizzying career Napoleon. By the way, when he goes on long hikes, she plunges headlong into love adventures.
Despite everything, Napoleon idolizes his wife, and his joy is overshadowed by only one fact - Josephine cannot get pregnant. In the end, Napoleon breaks the bonds of marriage, although he does not stop loving his Josephine. She was the only person, to whom the prisoner of St. Helena turned in his dying delirium. He did not see any flaws in his “goddess”, and kept his love until his death.
4. Nicholas II and Alexandra Fedorovna
Young Nicholas II, future king Russia, fell in love with German princess Alexandru as soon as he saw her. Despite all the strict moral laws At that time, which became even more severe in relation to royalty, Nicholas and Alexandra began to often appear in public together.
The future tsar and Alexandra Feodorovna were engaged in 1893. Soon after this, Nicholas's father died, and, a couple of days later, Nicholas II became Tsar of all Russia. Their love continued until the idyll was disrupted by the uprising of workers and peasants, plus Grigory Rasputin appeared on the horizon.
Be that as it may, on July 16, 1918, all royal family was destroyed by the Bolsheviks. People died, but their love story remained.
5. Charles Lindbergh and Anna Spencer Morrow
Charles Lindbergh became famous in 1927 after he crossed the Atlantic Ocean. A year later, traveling around Latin America, he met his future wife, Anna Spencer Morrow, daughter of the US Ambassador to Mexico.
Their relationship attracted worldwide attention, and just a year later, Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow became husband and wife. Soon after, Charles and Anne began flying together, conquering the skies. They set the world speed record between Los Angeles and New York in 1930, with Anna already seven months pregnant.
Both were not only skilled pilots, but also wrote books, becoming the authors of as many as 13 books. Unfortunately, bright life both were overshadowed by the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh son in 1932. Despite everything, the Lindebergs are considered one of the most romantic couples who lived truly in perfect harmony, as they say.
The site remembered how celebrities suffered for their happiness. They had to sacrifice a lot. Moreover, they were under constant attention press and ordinary people.
Anatoly Chubais and Avdotya Smirnova
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The fact that Anatoly Chubais and Avdotya Smirnova got married became known in January 2012. “Dunya Smirnova and I really got married. We didn’t hold a wedding, but just quietly celebrated the two of us,” Chubais wrote then on his microblog. “Many thanks to everyone who congratulated us. We hope to live in love and harmony,” the politician succinctly told everyone interested.
This was not the first marriage for both. The previous husband of director and TV presenter Dunya Smirnova was the famous St. Petersburg art critic Arkady Ippolitov. From him she gave birth to a son, Danila, who today is widely known as the goalkeeper of the Russian beach soccer team. But after seven years of marriage, the couple broke up.
Chubais got married for the first time while still in college. He is from Belarus, she is from Siberia, together they went through the ordeal of lack of money, living in an ordinary Leningrad communal apartment. Soon their children Alexey and Olga were born. But, what can you do, Chubais, as it turned out, met someone else. And in 1990 he married Maria Vishnevskaya, with whom he worked at the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute: he was an associate professor, she was a senior research fellow. But again something didn’t work out, and Chubais, leaving ex-wife, as they said, a huge Moscow apartment, Vacation home and a car, he left again to look for happiness. And he found it with Dunya.
Valery Meladze and Albina Dzhanabaeva
Valery Meladze officially divorced his first wife Irina in 2014, having been married for more than twenty years. “Valery said that he has a relationship on the side, even has a child. When asked “who,” he did not answer anything. But it was a matter of 20 minutes to find out who,” Irina Meladze later told reporters. “I understood,” that Albina was too nervous. And she didn’t understand the reasons for this behavior. There were other members of this group, and they behaved calmly. But Dzhanabaeva behaved very nervously. I saw that her eyes were moving, she was blinking a lot, and I didn’t "I completely understood the reason for this behavior. She freezes when I approach. When I began to remember in hindsight, everything became clear to me. I even, in my opinion, congratulated her on the birth of her child."
Later it turns out that Valery and Albina’s secret passion lasted two years, after which it turned out that Albina was pregnant. Moreover, the son Konstantin, according to open sources of information, was born when Meladze was married to his wife Irina. As they said, Valery rented an apartment for new girlfriend life and a newborn son, and his brother Konstantin, allegedly, therefore decided to invite Dzhanabaeva to sing in VIA Gro.
Konstantin Meladze and Vera Berzhneva
Composer and producer Konstantin Meladze has admitted more than once that thanks to his marriage to Vera Brezhneva, he began to travel a lot, eat right and take care of his appearance. But the path to happiness was not easy. Initially, rumors about a romance between the two stars appeared almost from the very moment Vera joined the VIA Gra group in 2002. Konstantin and Vera, however, had to hide their feelings and, obviously, tell lies not only to journalists, but also to close people.
Meladze’s reaction to newspaper publications about their romance, supported by photographs where the composer was photographed near Brezhneva’s Kyiv apartment, is memorable. “All this is just another invention of journalists,” said Konstantin, “they have married and divorced us a hundred times over the past 10 years, and now they have decided that we are lovers. This is base nonsense. Vera and I are long-time friends and colleagues, and the fact is that we go to visit each other free time, there is nothing reprehensible. We have families and children, we are already established people, and if we decided to be together, then the newspaper headlines would not bother us."
Meladze’s ex-wife, mother of three children Yana, would later tell reporters that she first felt that her husband’s heart belonged to another ten years ago: “I guessed, but didn’t know for sure. In 2005, being pregnant with my youngest son, I wrote off the crisis in our relationship to betrayal, instinct, temporary weakness. I was able to forgive betrayal."
Incredible facts
The lives of celebrities seem like the ultimate dream to us, and their love stories seem like an incredibly beautiful fairy tale.
However, even for the beautiful and famous, not everything is so smooth and cloudless.
Sometimes even the most beautiful stories love, suddenly breaking off, find a tragic ending.
Here are 10 celebrity love stories with unexpectedly sad endings:
The most tragic love stories
1. Simon Utley and Petra Nemkova
In a split second, a dream holiday turned into a nightmare for 25-year-old model Petra Nemkova and her 33-year-old lover, photographer Simon Utley.
At the end of 2004, the lovers went to one of the popular resorts in Thailand. The holiday promised to be fabulous.
When a deadly tsunami hit the island, thousands of human destinies were broken in an instant.
Petra saved herself from certain death by clinging to the branches of a palm tree. The model remained in the tree for eight agonizing hours before rescuers finally rescued her.
The girl suffered a fractured pelvis and many other injuries, but she survived, and her lover died...
Simon's body was found 6 months later near the place where the loving couple spent their vacation.
In memory of her deceased fiancé, Petra founded a foundation called The Happy Hearts Fund. This organization was engaged in helping victims of disasters in Haiti and the Philippines cope with the tragedies that befell them.
Michael Todd is perhaps famous for being only husband Elizabeth Taylor, from whom she did not divorce. And this, indeed, was a feat.
After all, all 7 marriages famous actress ended in divorce. Marriage to Michael was the third for the Cleopatra star (she was married a total of eight times) and the third for Todd, a famous Hollywood producer.
Taylor was there for two years younger than my son Todd from his first marriage. However, the 23-year age difference did not stop the lovers. The relationship between Elizabeth and Michael was always in the spotlight and was surrounded by a lot of gossip and gossip.
6 months after the wedding, a daughter, Lisa, was born into the family.
Despite the negative attention from the tabloids, the couple seemed truly in love and sincere.
Many said that Elizabeth was never happier than when she was with Todd.
Their fairytale was cut short when, less than a year after their wedding in 1958, Todd's private plane, the Lucky Liz, crashed. The plane's engine failed and it exploded upon impact with the ground.
At the end of her life, Elizabeth called Michael “the love of her life,” along with her 5th (and 6th) husband, Richard Burton, and, of course, jewelry.
Celebrity tragedies
3. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
Yes, their relationship was tumultuous, and yes, the couple was notorious for both using illegal drugs.
In April 1994, the whole world was shocked by the news of the death of Kurt Cobain. The famous musician was found dead in his home. He died from a gunshot wound to the head. The police confirmed the fact of suicide.
Kurt and Courtney met at a nightclub in 1990. They secretly married on a beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1992.
6 months after the wedding, daughter Frances Bian was born.
There are many versions regarding Kurt's death. Some claim it was murder. Others are convinced that Cobain committed suicide. But for what exact reason, no one knows.
At the time of his death, Kurt was only 27 years old. He was in his prime and at the zenith of his fame...
4. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
Hollywood's "Golden Girl" Carole Lombard met her fate on the set of the 1932 film "A Difficult Man." Her partner in the role was the famous Clark Gable.
But it was only in 1939, seven long years after they met, that the couple connected. Clark and Carol's life seemed like a fairy-tale idyll.
They were madly in love, constantly surprising each other with unusual actions.
For example, after one of their quarrels, as a sign of reconciliation, Lombard sent her husband a pair of doves.
Unfortunately, just two years after their wedding, Carol died in a plane crash. She was flying to shoot an anti-fascist film. Her plane crashed, crashing into a mountain while climbing.
She was only 33 years old. Although Gable later married, those who knew him closely argued that the actor never recovered from the death of his wife. Undoubtedly, Carol was the most great love in his life.
To forget himself, Clark Gable went to the front as a simple private, despite the fact that his relatives and friends were against it.
At Clark's request, after his death he was buried next to Lombard in 1961.
5. Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski
At first glance, it seems Hollywood couldn't have written a better script: In 1964, a rising actress (Tate) meets a promising young director (Polanski).
And although these two did not immediately find mutual language, Polanski tries it in his film ("The Fearless Vampire Killers").
They fell in love while in Italy, and on their return to London she moved into the director's house.
Four years later, Sharon and Roman were married and expecting a child.
Their love story could be called a fairy tale with a happy ending... However, fatal coincidence Circumstances cut short this wonderful fairy tale.
Just two weeks before giving birth, Tate was brutally murdered by the criminal group known as the Charles Manson family. After being tied up at gunpoint, she was stabbed 16 times.
Sharon was only 26 years old...
6. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed
Only one short month the stormy romance between Diana Spencer and her boyfriend, son, continued Egyptian billionaire Dodi Fayed.
In August 1997, the world was shocked by the news that the beloved princess and her new lover had died in a car accident while on vacation in Paris.
The lovers are in a terrible situation car accident. Dodi died instantly, but Diana was taken to the hospital with many injuries, where she died a few hours later.
Some sources report that the princess was pregnant at the time of her death, but this fact has not been officially confirmed.
Their fleeting romance remained a beautiful, but unfinished story of great love.
7. John and Jacqueline Kennedy
It was love at first sight. John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier met at a mutual friend's party.
A year later in 1953, the couple married. Eight years later, Kennedy became President of the United States of America, and Jackie became the third young First Lady in history. She was only 31 years old.
The tragedy occurred 2 years after Kennedy was elected head of state. During a trip to Texas, he was shot several times in the head and neck in an open convertible.
And although Jackie married again a few years after the tragic death of her first husband, she could not forget him until her death.
Nobody could compare with him.
She admitted this in one of her interviews, being already an elderly woman. She called the years spent in the White House the best of her life.
Tragedies of famous people
8. Pierce Brosnan and Cassandra Harris
When James Bond falls in love with someone, he marries and wants to spend the rest of his life with that girl.
In 1980, Pierce Brosnan met Cassandra Harris. They were born common child(Cassandra had two children from her first marriage).
After several years of cloudless happiness, the woman was diagnosed with cancer. Brosnan remained with his wife until the end, supporting her in everything.
He went through all the circles of hell with his beloved: several operations, an extensive course of chemotherapy. Treatment turned out to be ineffective. The disease won, and in 1991, at the age of 43, Cassandra died.
Brosnan shared that he continued to talk with his lover even after her death. But the tragedies associated with diseases did not end there.
A few years later, Cassandra’s daughter from her first marriage, Charlotte, was diagnosed with an identical disease.
Pierce Brosnan was next to his stepdaughter until the very end, holding her hand.
Incredible facts
Do you believe in true love? What about love at first sight? Do you believe that love can last forever? Perhaps the love stories below will help you strengthen your faith in this feeling or renew your faith in it. These are the most famous love stories, they are immortal.
1. Romeo and Juliet
These are probably the most famous lovers in the whole world. This couple has become synonymous with love itself. "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The story of two teenagers from two warring families who fall in love at first sight, then get married, and later risk everything for their love. Willingness to give your life for your husband or wife is a sign of real feeling. Their premature departure brought the feuding families together.
2. Cleopatra and Mark Antony
The true love story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most memorable and intriguing. The story of these two historical characters was subsequently recreated on the pages of William Shakespeare's work, and filmed by famous directors more than once. The relationship between Mark Antony and Cleopatra is a true test of love. They fell in love at first sight.
The relationship between these two influential people put Egypt in a very advantageous position. But their romance extremely outraged the Romans, who feared that as a result of it the influence of the Egyptians would significantly increase. Despite all the threats, Mark Antony and Cleopatra got married. It is said that while in battle against the Romans, Mark received false news of Cleopatra's death. Feeling empty, he committed suicide. When Cleopatra learned of Antony's death, she was shocked and then also committed suicide. Great love requires great sacrifices.
3. Lancelot and Guinevere
The tragic love story of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere is probably one of the most famous of the Arthurian legends. Lancelot falls in love with Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur. Their love grew very slowly, since Guinevere did not let Lancelot close to her. In the end, however, passion and love overcame her, and they became lovers. One night, Sir Agravain and Sir Modred, King Arthur's nephew, who led a group of 12 knights, burst into the queen's room, where they found the lovers. Taken by surprise, they tried to escape, however, only Lancelot succeeded. The Queen was captured and sentenced to death for adultery. However, a few days later Lancelot returned to save his beloved. This whole sad story divided the Knights of the Round Table into two groups, thereby weakening Arthur's kingdom significantly. As a result, poor Lancelot ended his days as a humble hermit, and Guinevere became a nun, and remained so for the rest of her life.
4. Tristan and Isolde
The tragic love story of Tristan and Isolde has been retold and rewritten numerous times. The action took place in the Middle Ages during the reign of King Arthur. Isolde was the daughter of the King of Ireland, and had just become engaged to King Mark of Cornwall. King Mark sent his nephew Tristan to Ireland to escort his bride Isolde to Cornwall. During the journey, Tristan and Isolde fall in love with each other. Isolde still marries Mark, but the love affair continues after her marriage. When Mark finally learned of the betrayal, he forgave Isolde, but exiled Tristan from Cornwall forever.
Tristan went to Brittany. There he met Isolde of Brittany. He was drawn to her because she looked like his true love. He married her, but the marriage did not turn out to be genuine because of his true love to another woman. After he fell ill, he sent for his beloved in the hope that she would come and be able to cure him. There was an agreement with the captain of the ship he sent that if she agreed to come, then the sails of the ship upon return would be white, if not, then black. Tristan's wife, seeing the white sails, told him that the sails were black. He died of grief before his love could reach him, and soon after Isolde also died of a broken heart.
5. Paris and Helen
Told in Homer's Iliad, the story of Helen of Troy and Trojan War is a Greek heroic legend that is half fiction. Helen of Troy is considered one of the most beautiful women in all of literature. She married Menelaus, king of Sparta. Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, fell in love with Helen and kidnapped her, taking her to Troy. The Greeks gathered a huge army led by Menelaus' brother, Agamemnon, to bring Helen back. Troy was destroyed, Helen returned safely to Sparta, where she lived happily throughout her life with Menelaus.
6. Orpheus and Eurydice
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is an ancient Greek myth about desperate love. Orpheus fell very much in love and married Eurydice, a beautiful nymph. They loved each other very much and were happy. Aristaeus, the Greek god of earth and agriculture, became infatuated with Eurydice and actively pursued her. Fleeing from Aristeas, Eurydice fell into a nest of snakes, one of which fatally bit her on the leg. The distraught Orpheus played such sad music and sang so sadly that all the nymphs and gods cried. On their advice, he went to underworld, and his music softened the hearts of Hades and Persephone (he was the only person who dared to take such a step), who agreed to the return of Eurydice to earth, but on one condition: when they reached the earth, Orpheus should not look back and look at her. Being extremely alarmed, the lover did not fulfill the conditions, turned around to look at Eurydice, and she disappeared a second time, now forever.
7. Napoleon and Josephine
Having married her for convenience at the age of 26, Napoleon clearly knew who he was taking as his wife. Josephine was older than him, a rich and prominent woman. However, over time, he fell deeply in love with her, and she with him, however, this did not stop both of them from cheating. But mutual respect kept them together, the passion that burned everything in its path did not fade and was genuine. However, in the end they parted because Josephine was unable to give him what he wanted so much - an heir. Unfortunately, their paths diverged, however, throughout their lives they kept love and passion for each other in their hearts.
8. Odysseus and Penelope
Few couples understand the essence of sacrifice in a relationship, however, this Greek couple understood it best. After they were separated, 20 long years passed before their reunion. Shortly after marrying Penelope, war required that Odysseus leave his new wife. Although she had little hope of his return, Penelope still resisted the 108 suitors who sought to replace her husband. Odysseus also loved his wife very much and refused the sorceress who offered him eternal love and eternal youth. Thus, he was able to return home to his wife and son. So believe Homer, who said that real love worth the wait.
9. Paolo and Francesca
Paolo and Francesca are heroes famous masterpiece Dante's "Divine Comedy". This real story: Francesca was married to a terrible man, Gianciotto Malatesta. However, his brother, Paolo, was the complete opposite Francesca fell in love with him and they became lovers. The love between them became even stronger when (according to Dante) they read the story of Lancelot and Guinevere together. When their affair was discovered, Francesca's husband killed them both.
10. Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler
"Gone with the Wind" is one of the immortal literary works. Margaret Mitchell's famous creation is permeated with love and hate in the relationship between Scarlett and Rhett Butler. Proving that timing is everything, Scarlett and Rhett never seemed to stop "fighting" each other. Throughout this epic story, this stormy, fickle passion and their tumultuous marriage unfolded against the backdrop of events civil war. Flirty, fickle and constantly pursued by fans, Scarlett cannot decide among the numerous contenders for her attention. When she finally decides to settle on Rhett, her fickle nature pushes him away from her. Hope finally dies when their romance is never rekindled, and Scarlett says at the end: “Tomorrow is a new day.”
11. Jane Eyre and Rochester
In Charlotte Brontë's famous novel, loneliness is cured by being alone and having each other's company. Jane is an orphan who takes a job as a governess in the house of the very rich Edward Rochester. The couple quickly became close, as Rochester had a tender heart underneath his rough exterior. However, he does not reveal his penchant for polygamy, and on their wedding day Jane discovers that he is already married. Heartbroken, Jane flees, but then returns after a fire destroys Rochester's home, killing his wife and leaving him blind. Love triumphs, lovers are reunited and live out their days in each other's company.
12. Leili and Majnun
Renowned classic of Persian poetry and one of the most famous poets of the medieval East, who complemented Persian epic poetry colloquial speech and realistic style, Nizami of Ganja became famous after he wrote his romantic poem “Leyli and Majnun”. Inspired by an Arabian legend, Layli and Majnun is a tragic tale of unattainable love. For many centuries it was told and retold, and the main characters were depicted on ceramics and written about in manuscripts. Leili and Kays fell in love while studying at school. Having noticed their love, they were forbidden to communicate and see each other. Qais then decides to go into the desert to live among animals. He often goes undernourished and becomes very emaciated. Due to his eccentric behavior, he becomes known as Majnun (madman). In the desert, he meets an elderly Bedouin who promises him to win back his Leili.
The plan fails, and Leili's father continues to refuse to let the lovers be together because of Majnun's insane behavior. Soon he marries her to someone else. After the death of Leili's husband, the old Bedouin facilitates her meeting with Majnun, however, they were never able to completely get on the same page and understand each other. After death they were buried next to each other. The story is often interpreted as an allegory of the soul's desire to connect with the divine.
13. Heloise and Abelard
This is the story of a monk and a nun whose love letters become world famous. Around 1100, Pierre Abelard went to Paris to study at the Notre Dame school. There he gained a reputation as an outstanding philosopher. Fulbert, a high-ranking official, hired Abelard as a tutor to his niece Heloise. Abelard and Heloise fell in love, conceived a child, and married secretly. However, Fulbert was furious, so Abelard hid Heloise in a safe place in the monastery. Believing that Abelard had decided to abandon Heloise, Fulbert had him castrated while he slept. Heartbroken, Eloise became a nun. Despite all the troubles and adversities, the couple continued to love each other. Their passionate love letters were published.
14. Pyramus and Thisbe
A very touching love story that will not leave anyone indifferent who reads it. Their love was selfless, and they were sure that even in death they would be together. Pyramus was very handsome man and from childhood he was friends with Thisbe, a beautiful maiden from Babylonia. They lived in neighboring houses and fell in love with each other as they grew older. However, their parents were strongly against their marriage. One night, just before dawn, while everyone was sleeping, they decided to sneak out of the house and meet in a nearby field near a mulberry tree. Thisbe came first. While she was waiting under the tree, she saw a lion approaching the spring located near the tree to quench his thirst, his jaw covered in blood.
Seeing this terrifying sight, Thisbe rushed to run to hide in the depths of the forest from the lion, but on the way she dropped her scarf. The lion followed her and came across a handkerchief, which he decided to taste. At this time, Pyramus approached the place, and seeing a lion with bloody jaws and with the scarf of his beloved, he lost the meaning of life. At that moment he stabs himself with his own sword. Unaware of what had just happened, Thisbe continued to hide. After some time, she came out of hiding and discovered what Pyramus had done to himself. Realizing that she has nothing to live for, she takes her lover’s sword and also kills herself.
15. Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy
In fact, Jane Austen embodied two attributes human nature pride and prejudice in its heroes Darcy and Elizabeth. Darcy belongs to high society, he is a typical educated representative of the aristocracy. On the other hand, Elizabeth is the second daughter of a gentleman of very limited means. Mr. Bennett is the father of five daughters who received the right to grow up the way they want, who did not receive school education and were not raised by a governess.
Elizabeth's very indulgent mother and irresponsible father never thought about the future of their daughters, believing that it was self-evident that they would be fine. “Everything is fine” in the understanding of the girls’ mother meant marrying a rich and prosperous man. For a person like that social status which Mr. Darcy possessed, the shortcomings of Elizabeth's family were very serious, and absolutely unacceptable to his polished and refined mind. He falls in love with Elizabeth, but she turns him down, but later she realizes that she cannot love anyone but Darcy. The story of their unification and the birth of love is very interesting.
16. Salim and Anarkali
Every lover knows the story of Salim and Anarkali. The son of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar, Salim, fell in love with an ordinary but very beautiful courtesan Anarkali. He was captivated by her beauty, so it was love at first sight. However, the emperor could not come to terms with the fact that his son fell in love with a courtesan. He began to put pressure on Anarkali, using all sorts of tactics to make her fall in the eyes of the loving prince. When Salim found out about this, he declared war on his father. But he failed to defeat his father's gigantic army; Salim was defeated, captured and sentenced to death. At this moment, Anarkali intervenes and gives up her love in order to save her beloved from the clutches of death. She was buried alive in brick wall in front of Salim.
17. Pocahontas and John Smith
This love story is a famous legend in American history. Pocahontas, an Indian princess, was the daughter of Powhatan, who was the leader of the Powhatan Indian tribe, who lived in what is now the state of Virginia. The princess first saw Europeans in May 1607. Among everyone, she paid attention to John Smith, she liked him. However, Smith was captured by members of her tribe and tortured. It was Pocahontas who saved him from being torn to pieces by the Indians; later the tribe accepted him as one of their own. This incident helped Smith and Pocahontas become friends. After this incident, the princess often visited Jamestown, conveying messages from her father.
John Smith, seriously injured after an accidental gunpowder explosion, returned to England. After another visit, she was told that Smith was dead. Some time later, Pocahontas was captured by Sir Samuel Argall, who hoped to use her as a link between him and her father so that the latter would free the English prisoners. During her captivity, she decides to become a Christian and, taking the name Rebecca, is baptized. A year later she married John Rolfe. Having gone to London after a certain time, she and her husband met his old friend John Smith, after 8 long years. This was their last meeting.
18. Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal
In 1612, teenage girl Arjumand Banu married 15-year-old Shah Jahan, ruler of the Mughal Empire. Then she changed her name to Mumtaz Mahal, bore Shah Jahan 14 children and became his beloved wife. After Mumtaz died in 1629, the grieving emperor decided to create a worthy monument in her honor. It took 20,000 workers, 1,000 elephants and almost 20 years of work to complete the construction of this monument - the Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan never completed the construction of a black marble mausoleum for himself. Overthrown by his own son, he was imprisoned in the Red Fort in Agra, where he spent lonely hours looking across the Yamuna River at the monument of his beloved. He was subsequently buried next to her at the Taj Mahal.
19. Marie and Pierre Curie
This is a story about partnership in love and science. Unable to continue her studies in Poland because universities did not accept women, Marie Skłodowska-Curie came to Paris in 1891 to attend the Sorbonne. Marie, as the French began to call her, spent every free moment in the library or laboratory. The hardworking student one day caught the eye of Pierre Curie, the director of one of the laboratories in which Maria worked. Pierre actively courted Maria and proposed to her several times to marry him. Finally, in 1895, they got married and began working together. In 1898, the couple discovered polonium and radium.
Curie and scientist Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize in 1903 for their discovery of radioactivity. When Pierre died in 1904, Marie promised herself to continue their work. She took his place at the Sorbonne, becoming the school's first female teacher. In 1911, she became the first person to win a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry. She continued to experiment and teach until her death from leukemia in 1934, driven by the memory of the man she loved.
20. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
This is a love story Queen of England, who mourned her dead husband for 40 years. Victoria was a lively, cheerful girl who was interested in drawing and painting. She ascended to the English throne in 1837 after the death of her uncle King William IV. In 1840 she married her cousin Prince Albert. Although Prince Albert was initially disliked in some circles for being German, he later came to be admired for his honesty, hard work and devotion to his family. The couple had 9 children, Victoria loved her husband very deeply. She often used his advice in state affairs, especially regarding diplomatic negotiations.
When Albert died in 1861, Victoria was devastated. She did not appear in public for three years. Her prolonged seclusion drew public criticism. There were several attempts on the queen's life. However, under the influence of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, Victoria returned to public life, opening Parliament in 1866. However, she never stopped mourning her beloved husband, wearing black robes until her death in 1901. During her reign, which was the longest in English history, Britain became a world power on which “the sun never sets.”
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