1. Cleopatra and Mark Antony
This is, without a doubt, the most famous story love, repeatedly played out 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.
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By the time of Hugh Ledger's death, he beautiful novel with Michelle Williams was completed, but still the actress was very worried about the death of her ex-boyfriend. She left behind a daughter, Matilda, who bears a striking resemblance to her father. Some Hollywood love stories are as tragic as the plots of famous melodramas. Get to know them - and then, perhaps, you will become more careful about your chosen ones.
Two Natashas
The star of the films "Solaris" and "The Truman Show" Natascha McElhone was married to Dr. Martin Kelly. They raised two sons and were expecting a third when their relationship tragically ended in 2008. One day, the actress returned home from filming and found her insensitive husband. He was taken to hospital, but Martin did not survive. The cause of death was cardiomyopathy. Their third son, Rex, was born almost six months after his father's death. To cope with depression, Natasha began writing letters to her late husband - they were later published in a book.
The next dramatic story is also connected with an actress named Natasha. Daughter of a famous British star, the beautiful Natasha Richardson, married Irish boyfriend Liam Neeson in 1994 after performing together in a Broadway play. In 2009, Richardson and one of their sons held the winter vacation in Quebec. There, while skiing, the actress suffered a head injury. It seemed to her that nothing terrible had happened, and she refused medical care. But blunt head injuries can be very insidious. And when Richardson was taken to the hospital a couple of days later, he was already brain dead. If time had not been lost, she could have survived. On March 18, Natasha was disconnected from the devices. She was 45 years old. Even years later, the actor admits that when the door opens, he expects to hear the voice of his beloved.
Killer cancer
James Bond and ex-girlfriend Bond found love and happiness in real world, when Pierce Brosnan and Cassandra Harris (who starred in one of the Bond films, For Your Eyes Only) got married in 1980. The actor adopted his wife’s two children, then they had a son. Harris put terrible diagnosis: ovarian cancer. Brosnan was by her side while she struggled with the disease: 8 operations, chemotherapy. But nothing helped, and in 1991 the woman died. Pierce stated that even after her death, he would sit in the garden that Cassandra loved so much and talk to her. Later, the same disease claimed Harris' daughter.
The love of Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi lasted 34 years (they met when the girl was only 16 years old). A real Hollywood record! The actor died of pancreatic cancer in 2009. For a long time Lisa did not agree to marry Albert DePrisco, who asked for her hand. But one day she dreamed of Patrick, and the woman decided that he was blessing his beloved and asking her to move on with life. And Lisa married Albert.
From the hands of maniacs
When the Fab Four broke up, many blamed Yoko Ono for starting the Beatles' split. In fact, the quartet had a lot of problems even before Lennon’s marriage. Their relationship was not easy, but there is no doubt that these two loved each other. Only love ended in tragedy: Mark Chapman shot the idol of millions in December 1980, and John Lennon left Yoko and their son Sean.
Two weeks before the birth of the child, Roman Polanski's wife was brutally murdered - five of the 16 wounds she received were fatal. The beautiful actress was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” - her house was attacked by followers of the psychopath Charles Manson. Four of her friends died along with Tate. Roman was away at that time and survived.
Irreplaceable loss
Rock legend Mick Jagger and fashion designer Lauren Scott seemed strange couple: difference in age (21 years) and height (15 cm). But they have been everywhere together since they met in 2001. And wherever they appeared, the eyes of those present were riveted on these two. It is still unclear what caused 49-year-old Lauren to commit suicide - probably financial problems in her design business. Scott hanged herself from a doorknob in her apartment in February of this year.
For comedian John Ritter and actress Amy Yasbeck, September was a very busy month: the birthdays of both spouses, their daughter Stella, and their wedding anniversary. But September 11, 2003 was overshadowed by John's death. On Stella's fifth birthday, her dad died on the operating table from an aneurysm. Amy was very worried, and since then she has been a rare guest in the cinema.
Fatal disaster
The stars of Hollywood's golden age, blonde Carole Lombard, and the star of Gone with the Wind, handsome Clark Gable, had a beautiful love. Carol was only 33 years old when she died in a plane crash: a twin-engine plane literally crashed into a mountain. Gable was barely kept from climbing to the top - he rushed there in the hope of saving his wife. When her body was discovered, he sobbed and said he didn't want to return to an empty house.
Gable sought death for a long time, but then tried to start over, marrying several more times. But after his death he found last refuge next to Lombard.
When one couldn't survive without the other
It is still not entirely clear why the young star Brittany Murphy and her husband Simon Monjack, who survived his wife by only five months, died. There were different versions. The most plausible one is that Brittany did not survive the consequences of pneumonia, anemia and treatment with strong drugs, her heart failed. Heart attack killed Simon too.
Superman star Christopher Reeve said he fell in love with Dana at first sight. They got married in the spring of 1992, and nothing seemed to threaten their happiness. But in May 1995, the actor fell from a horse and damaged two cervical vertebrae. Doctors saved him, but Reeve remained paralyzed forever. His life was supported by a complex apparatus, but he did not leave active work, by his example instilling hope in the same disabled people. Dana was always there. 9 years after the tragedy, Christopher fell into a coma (it was a reaction to an antibiotic) and died a few hours later. His wife did not survive him for long. She passed away in March 2006: lung cancer destroyed Dana in six months.
Nikolai Rubtsov (1936–1971) - an outstanding lyrical Russian poet, for his short life managed to publish only four collections of poetry. He was born on January 3, 1936 in Arkhangelsk region. When the war began, his family moved to Vologda, and his father was soon taken to the front. However, a few months later, Rubtsov Sr.’s wife unexpectedly died, and the children were left alone. So little Nikolai and his brother Boris were sent to Orphanage to the small northern town of Totma. When the war finally ended, the boys hoped that their father would return and take them home. But he never arrived. He preferred to get married, have new family, and forget about the children from the first wife forever. Vulnerable, touchy and too soft, Nikolai Rubtsov could not forgive such a betrayal of his father. He closed himself off even more and began writing down his first poems in a small notebook. Since then, he has not stopped composing, becoming seriously interested in poetry.
In the summer of 1950, when seven years of school were completed, Nikolai entered the forestry technical school, and two years later he went to Arkhangelsk, where more than a year worked on the ship as an assistant fireman. Then the future poet served in the army and moved to Leningrad. By 1962, he published his first collection of poems, got married, and entered the Moscow Literary Institute. It seemed that certainty had appeared in life, a little daughter was growing up in the family, as the poet Rubtsov became famous among Moscow writers and was considered a rather talented young man. However, due to his addiction to alcohol and drunken brawls, he was expelled from the institute and reinstated several times. Nevertheless, he did not stop drinking.
One of richest people on earth, Greek multimillionaire Aristotle Onassis was born on January 15, 1906. He grew up independent, self-confident and courageous, and with early years Ari, as his relatives called him, developed a great interest in people of the opposite sex. So, when he was barely thirteen years old, he first experienced female caresses. His teacher, who became his first lover and was remembered by Onassis for the rest of his life, volunteered to teach the boy the wisdom of love. However, his most great love was still ahead.
In the meantime, Aristotle was obsessed with a single idea - to achieve success in business and make huge fortune. After coming of age, in search of better life, he emigrated to Argentina and got a job as a telephone technician, but free time was doing business. Thanks to numerous transactions, by the age of thirty-two, Onassis already had several hundred thousand dollars. He made a fortune trading oil, but did not want to stop there.
Outstanding poet, almost laureate Nobel Prize, which Boris Pasternak was given for his novel “Doctor Zhivago,” was largely due to the woman who entered his life so quickly and suddenly to remain there until last days, and after the death of a loved one, experience painful difficulties and hardships.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in Moscow on January 29 (February 10), 1890 in the family of an artist and pianist. Famous people gathered in their house: artists, musicians, writers, and from childhood Boris was familiar with the most famous people of art in Russia. He himself played music well and drew. At the age of eighteen, Pasternak entered the Faculty of Law of the Moscow Imperial University, and a year later he was transferred to the Faculty of History and Philology. The young man wished to become a philosopher. A few years later, with money collected by his caring mother, the young man went to Germany to listen to lectures from the famous German philosopher. But there, completely disillusioned with this science, he went to Italy with the remaining money, and the aspiring poet returned to Moscow with a persistent desire to devote himself to literature and poetry. His search for himself has since been completed.
The famous Soviet poetess Veronika Mikhailovna Tushnova (1915–1965) was born in Kazan in the family of a professor of medicine, biologist Mikhail Tushnov. Her mother, Alexandra Tushnova, née Postnikova, was much younger than her husband, which is why everything in the house was subject only to his wishes. The strict professor Tushnov, who came home late, worked a lot, rarely saw the children, which is why his daughter was afraid of him and tried to avoid him, hiding in the nursery.
Little Veronica was always thoughtful and serious, she loved to be alone and copy poems into notebooks, of which there were several dozen by the end of school.
Passionately in love with poetry, the girl was forced to submit to the will of her father and enter the medical institute in Leningrad, where the Tushnov family had recently moved. In 1935, Veronica completed her studies and went to work as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Moscow, and three years later she married Yuri Rozinsky, a psychiatrist. (The details of life with Rozinsky are unknown, since Tushnova’s relatives prefer to remain silent about this, and family archive poetess still remains unpublished.)
Edith Giovanna Gassion was born right on the street. Her mother, an acrobat in a traveling circus, gave birth on the outskirts of Paris before she could reach the hospital. It happened on a cold December morning in 1915. Soon the girl’s father, Louis Gassion, was taken to the front, and the flighty mother, not wanting to take care of her daughter, sent her to the house of her alcoholic parents. They had their own ideas about raising their granddaughter: they kept the girl in the dirt and taught her to drink wine; they sincerely believed that in this way the child would gain strength and be accustomed to all the difficulties of a future wandering life.
When the father came to visit Edith for a few days, the dirty, skinny, ragged girl made such a terrifying impression on him that he immediately took the child and took him to his mother. The owner of the brothel washed the baby, fed her and dressed her in clothes. clean dress. Surrounded by prostitutes who very warmly and carefully received the four-year-old girl, Edith became happy. However, less than a month had passed when others began to notice that the girl could not see. Time passed, she turned seven years old, and she still could not even distinguish a bright light. The girls from the brothel, having decided that they could only help “little Edith” divine powers, went to prayer. With God's help or not, a miracle happened: a week later, on August 25, 1921, the girl regained her sight.
Beautiful, independent, always carrying herself with dignity, actress Tatyana Okunevskaya (1914–2002) won the hearts of Soviet men - from ordinary workers to influential and famous officials. Viewers remembered her as a carefree and cheerful actress. But who knew its heavy, almost tragic life, he understood how difficult it was for her to have cheerfulness and the charming smile that never left her face.
Tatyana Kirillovna Okunevskaya was born on March 3, 1914 in Moscow. In the third grade, the future actress was kicked out of school because of her father, who supported the White Guards during Civil War. The girl was transferred to another school, where she managed to gain respect and remain a constant leader among her classmates for seven years. She defended justice so much that one day, after an argument with the boys, she was thrown out of the second floor of the school, but, fortunately, she escaped with only minor bruises.
Valentina Serova is one of the most bright stars Soviet cinema, an open and sincere beauty, was a muse and the strongest and most reverent love no less famous Constantine Simonova.
Before they met, Simonov was married twice: to Ada Tipot and Evgenia Laskina, who gave him a son. Serova, having lived only a year with her husband, remained a widow with a child who had not yet been born. Her young husband, pilot Anatoly Serov, died while on duty shortly before Serova met with Konstantin Simonov.
The actress could not forget her first husband. Having survived the war, an affair with Simonov, raising a daughter, she invariably every year, on the morning of May 11, came to the Kremlin wall, where the ashes of the Hero rest. Soviet Union Anatoly Serov. And as fate would have it, that fateful day, many years later, would become the most happy day in her life: Serova gave birth to a daughter...
Albert Einstein's beloved woman, with whom few knew about the affair, was a Soviet citizen. For a long time their relationship was hidden by both the American side and domestic competent authorities. And only at the end of the 20th century, the love story of Margarita Konenkova and the great scientist became known to the general public, not only through some leaked information from former secret agents, but also through the Konenkovs’ personal archive, which was made public and put up for auction at Sotheby’s in the late 1980s years.
Materials about Konenkova’s stay in America have not yet been declassified, and perhaps we will never know much. What she and her husband actually did in the United States remains unclear at this time. Did Margarita really go there to accompany her sculptor husband or was she on a secret mission? Soviet side- was obliged to obtain information on the American development of an atomic bomb.
Henri Matisse, an artist of “light and happiness” who looked at the world through the prism of joy and beauty, once wrote: “I strive for art full of balance and purity... I want the tired, torn, exhausted person in front of my painting to taste peace and rest." He admitted that he found joy in everything: in the trees, in the sky, in flowers. This was all Matisse - the famous French artist who knew how to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, look for light in the darkness and notice love in an indifferent, callous world. “He has the sun in his blood,” Pablo Picasso once said about the artist.
Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 into a poor family. His mother was a seamstress and worked at home, so colorful ribbons, scraps of fabric, bows and ladies' hats were scattered throughout the rooms. This colorful environment, filled with the most different colors, was largely reflected in his bright, joyful paintings many years later. Henri grew up as a serious and purposeful boy. However, at the age of twenty, while practicing law and dreaming of becoming a lawyer, he suddenly became interested in painting. Having moved to Paris and entered the School of Fine Arts, Matisse began his studies, completely devoting himself to art.
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) (real name Frederic Austerlitz), one of the most famous dancers of the past century, was born in America, in Nebraska, on May 10, 1899. His father was from Austria, respected the art of dance and sent his children to dance school from an early age. When they grew up, Fred and his sister Adele decided to form a dance couple and have performed together everywhere since then. They were immediately noticed and began to be invited not only to the famous dance floors of America, but also of Europe, and since 1915, brother and sister took part in musical comedies. In total they participated in fifteen dance shows. In 1923, they were to perform on Broadway, where the audience greeted the Astaires with delight. At the same time, they paid more attention to Fred than to the thin, graceful Adele. Temperamental, elegant, with a special sense of rhythm, the young man amazed with his talent.
The success of the Astaire dance couple was enormous. Ahead of them were tours around the world, participation in the most popular shows and colossal fees for those times. Unexpectedly, Adele got married and, having lost her head in love, left the stage. Fred was left alone. After breaking up with his sister, he decided to go for a screen test, which only brought him disappointment. The verdict was terrifying: “He can’t play. She dances a little." The thin, awkward young man seemed ridiculous to the director of the film studio, and his hands with thin, overly long fingers seemed completely unnatural. Fred Astaire left the film studio confused. Ten happy years, which flew by while working with my beloved sister, passed unnoticed. Fred was turning thirty-three years old, and a suitable partner, whom the dancer had been looking for for several months, still had not been found.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870–1953) was born at dawn on October 10 (22), 1870 in the small Russian city of Yelets. Under the morning crow of roosters and in the rays of the dawn sun. It was an unusual autumn morning, like an omen that opened the door to life for the poet, full of glory, love, despair and loneliness. Life on the edge: happiness and bitterness, love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, recognition during life and humiliating poverty at the end of the road. His muses were women, who gave him delight, troubles, disappointments, and immeasurable love. And it was from them that the creator left into a world that was misunderstood by many, strange and lonely. Bunin once remarked in his diary after reading Maupassant: “He is the only one who dared to endlessly say that human life is entirely under the rule of a woman’s thirst.”
Four women were in the life of the great Russian writer, they left a huge mark on his soul, they tormented his heart, inspired him, awakened his talent and desire to create.
Love is not the ideal that is written about in women's novels, but real relationship, which inspire and force you to change for the sake of your loved one.
Everyone dreams of the kind of love for which you can move mountains or give up really important things if circumstances require it. Unfortunately, many people search for such feelings for years, but never find them and, not wanting to waste time on trifles, prefer to live alone all their lives. However, we found several real stories, which confirm that true love exists.
Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
For America, Frank Sinatra became a true legend and symbol of the era of show business and the golden era of Hollywood. And while all the beauties of that time tried to win his heart, including Marilyn Monroe and Lana Turner, only one woman truly drove him crazy. He was so lost in this love that he went on a drinking binge, lost his voice and at times behaved inappropriately. The actress who drove the great performer crazy was Ava Gardner, and she acted somehow magically on men. They were immediately ready to do anything if only this beauty would pay attention to them.
Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
Before meeting Sinatra, Ava had already been married twice and had a crazy affair with multimillionaire Howard Hughes. Howard threw planes, diamonds, and luxurious clothes at the feet of the wayward beauty, but she only accepted the gifts with cold politeness, keeping her admirer at a distance. By the way, Frank himself, who also had a wife and three children, did not consider having a family an obstacle to love affairs. The fatal meeting took place in 1950 at the premiere of the film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” After that evening, Sinatra was not himself, he suffered, was tormented and went crazy with love and jealousy. He could not shower the object of his passion with expensive gifts, so he relied only on his charm, which, alas, did not always work. As a result, Sinatra wrote his greatest hits and eventually won the favor of the actress. Two southern temperaments came together, and feelings resulted in energy true love and a passion that was impossible to resist.
At first, the lovers met secretly, because Sinatra was still not free. Then Ava flew to Spain, where she began an affair with a bullfighter, and Frank, who found out about this, almost died of grief. The actress took pity on him, promising to return, but then fell into the arms of Richard Greene. The performer was pumped up with sleeping pills, and only a miracle saved him. Ava finally gave in and agreed to marry him. The ceremony took place in Philadelphia, and the couple enjoyed quiet family happiness for a couple of years. But then they begin to torment each other with jealousy and in 1957, after a stormy showdown, they file for divorce. Frank claimed that after Ava he had many women, but none could give him the feelings that he experienced with his muse.
This is perhaps the most famous misalliance in history, when for the sake of his beloved woman, the English monarch Edward VIII voluntarily abdicated the throne. Envious people vied with each other to discuss the fact that the King of England suddenly became infatuated with a twice-divorced American woman. This was not only strange, but also unreasonable, in the opinion of many Englishmen. Residents of Britain were sure that a kind of end of the world had come and the collapse of moral and ethical standards and foundations of secular society.
Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII of England
The 36-year-old monarch met Mrs Wallis Simpson at a dinner party in early November 1930. At the same time, as historians recall, the prince fell in love with a married lady at first sight, although she was far from beautiful and did not have any outstanding talents. However, you cannot command your heart, and soon the prince won her favor. The lovers were not embarrassed by Wallis’s status, public censure, or boycott royal family, who hoped that the monarch would soon play enough and find himself a worthy passion. But it was not there!
In January 1936, when the English King George V died, Edward assumed the throne, and Wallis immediately decided to officially divorce her legal spouse. At the same time, neither parliament nor members of the royal family even wanted to hear about this divorced American suddenly becoming the wife of a monarch. Therefore, poor Edward had to make a choice between the English throne and his feelings. It was obvious to many that he would choose the title and crown. But, alas, Edward decided to leave everything for the sake of his beloved woman.
On December 10, 1936, Edward VIII publicly abdicated the throne, making his famous speech, and then devoted himself entirely to family life. The couple lived a very happy life and traveled a lot until the monarch died of cancer in 1972.
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier
And although in this union there was no Great love, however, the story of the Hollywood actress and the Prince of Monaco has truly become a legend.
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier
One of Alfred Hitchcock's most beloved actresses, Grace had a Nordic appearance and a reserved manner that gave the impression that she was not hollywood celebrity, but a real princess. However, despite the outward coldness, the star was very amorous and passionate and could easily have a light affair right on the set with the cameraman or accept beautiful courtship from the Shah of Iran. In Hollywood they believed that Miss High Society, as the actress was called angelic appearance, deserves to be the wife of only a real prince. In the end, this happened, and soon Grace was married to Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
It is worth noting that the acquaintance that took place in 1955 changed the lives of not only young people, but also the entire state. The prince had been looking for a worthy wife for a long time, so marrying a famous Hollywood beauty with a good reputation helped attract investment and arouse the interest of tourists in the bankrupt Monaco. Rainier figured that the wedding with the Oscar-winner Hollywood actress would be a successful PR coup, and the luxurious ceremony, held in 1956, revived interest in Monaco and turned this region into one of the most prestigious on the planet. The country fell in love with its new princess, and Grace gave the state not only long-awaited heirs, but also new economic opportunities.
Rainier's wife basked in attention, changed outfits from couturiers, posed for glossy publications and visited other countries on official visits. However, while millions of people dreamed of being in the same fairy tale, Grace suffered from the difficult character of her husband, and social duties were real hard labor for her. Soon the actress had health problems, she began to gain weight, and her grown children began to run away from home, abandon social responsibilities and have affairs with bodyguards.
In 1982, Kelly lost control of her car and got into a car accident. The injuries she received turned out to be incompatible with life, so almost the next day, by the prince’s decision, the life support machine supporting his wife’s condition was turned off.
Great novel opera diva and the richest man of the mid-twentieth century was called nothing less than a story of passionate love, burning everything in its path, and humiliation. Despite the gossip and public censure, these two even felt happy. At times, but still.
Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis
All representatives of the rich families of that time dreamed of getting the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis to a social reception. The billionaire did not refuse invitations, spending evenings surrounded by the most beautiful girls from high society, but, alas, using these fools only to achieve their goals. He managed to turn every acquaintance he had (even with a lady) into a business, but that was until 1959, when he accidentally fell in love for real. His world turned upside down the moment he was introduced to the young opera singer Maria Callas, whose talent was applauded by the whole world.
Maria (real name Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos) was born into a family of Greek immigrants in the United States and quite early married a wealthy Italian industrialist Giovanni Battisto Meneghini. He was a great connoisseur of art, and when he first saw talented girl, I just didn’t want to let her go anymore. And so he put all his affairs aside, becoming a devoted manager and generous producer of his beloved.
But Onassis first noticed Maria Callas at a ball in Venice, and then went to her concert to make sure that this was not just another passing hobby, and later invited the singer and her husband to his legendary yacht “Christina” - main symbol unprecedented luxury of that time. By the way, at the time when the Greek tycoon was enjoying the company of the unfree but desired Maria on his yacht, he was also married, but at that time he was not particularly worried about it. Love turned the heads of Mary and Aristotle, and they began an affair in front of the amazed public, spending all nights on the deck, dancing and looking at the starry sky. Upon returning, the lovers immediately began to live together, but soon the billionaire turned from an ardent lover into a real tyrant, constantly insulting Maria in front of his friends, openly cheating and raising his hand against the once beloved woman. Callas, blinded by love, endured, which further provoked her tyrant. As a result, she gave up her career, lost her voice and became isolated. Alas, the Greek tycoon not only did not take pity on his chosen one, but also truly betrayed the one whom he had recently admired. In October 1968, Aristotle Onassis married the widow of US President Jacqueline Kennedy, and Maria, who learned about this from the newspapers, locked herself in her apartment and turned into a real recluse.
Famous people love, lose and suffer no less than others. We will tell you about the seven most touching and sad love stories that the whole world watched.
One of the most famous couples America of the 50s - cult actress and famous baseball player. In 1954, the lovers got married and seriously planned to become a model family. The fatal blonde insisted with all her might that she wanted to give birth to Joe’s children and become a complete home woman. True, in Marilyn’s understanding this did not include leaving Hollywood. Of course, the hot Italian husband did not like this, and his wife’s status as a sex symbol acted on him like a red rag on a bull. Jealousy conquered love, and after just 2 years of marriage the couple separated.
However, the warmest feelings between the former spouses still remained - all their lives they maintained communication and helped each other. Moreover, it was DiMaggio who was involved in preparing Monroe’s funeral, and on his orders, fresh flowers appeared on the actress’s grave for many years as a sign of love and respect from her former lover.
This love story began quite pragmatically - presidential candidate John Kennedy needed a profitable match and found it in the person of the respectable and educated Jacqueline Bouvier. The wedding took place in 1953 - the couple looked impeccable, but their happiness was mostly an invention of PR people. Kennedy did not take the oath of fidelity to his wife particularly seriously and started affairs left and right, while the faithful Jacqueline tolerated all his adventures and remained nearby during severe attacks and operations that John endured due to his serious problems with the spine.
In the late 50s, Jackie's patience ran out and she decided to file for divorce. Her father-in-law and former diplomat Joe Kennedy persuaded her to save the marriage. The couple stayed together, and for some time peace and love truly reigned in their family - John began to appreciate his wife, and she allowed their relationship to start over with a new leaf.
But the idyll was not destined to last b for a long time - on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, a shot killed Kennedy and at the same time ended the story of their relationship with Jacqueline.
Witnesses of that tragic event especially remembered the gesture of the faithful wife, who decided not to change her blood-spattered suit so that the whole world could see not only her pain, but also the horror of the crime committed by the killer.
Although Birkin did not become the first love of the French chanson star Serge Gainsbourg, she definitely left a serious mark on his life and work. The couple met in 1968 on the set of the film “Slogan”. At first they hated each other, but after a while the situation changed dramatically, and from an enemy, Jane turned into the musician’s third wife.
The lovers stayed together for 12 long years, during which their daughter Charlotte was born and the famous hit “Je t"aime... Moi non plus” (“I love you... I don’t either”), which was personally criticized by the Pope, which , however, only added to the song’s popularity.
The tandem broke up due to Serge's addiction to drinking, but they remained good friends and colleagues - it was Gainsbourg who wrote it for Birkin best songs. To this day Jane speaks of ex-husband with great warmth and calls him a very vulnerable, but incredibly talented person.
This romance can rightfully be called a work affair - it flared up on the set of the film “Flame Over England”, where Lee and Olivier played lovers. Despite the fact that both actors were married, they decided to not care about everything and start living together. The couple decided to formalize the divorce from their other halves only a few years later, and only after that they were able to register their relationship.
Destroyed this one wonderful story both sides -Lawrence was tormented by envy of his beloved’s success, and Vivienne began to experience an exacerbation of manic-depressive psychosis, which ultimately ruined her life and put an end to her passionate relationship with Olivier.
The actor came to his senses quite quickly, got married a year later and lived happily for 30 years, but Lee died just 7 years later from tuberculosis and remained single for the rest of her life.
The blonde fatale of our time and her famous husband met in 1968 on the set of the Warner Brothers studio. The romance flared up quickly - the couple got married the same year. The couple stayed together for 7 years.
They separated because of Penn - he was never famous for his exemplary behavior, but in those days he broke all records: he regularly got drunk, was wildly jealous of his wife and often beat her. One day he became completely carried away - the severely beaten singer even filed a report with the police. A little later, she actually took him away, saying that she wished Sean all the best, as long as he was away from her.
However, Madonna's feelings were strong - she later admitted more than once that Penn was her greatest love. In 1996, she invited the actor to attend her birth, and after that she regularly appeared with him at events and was extremely flattered when Sean visited and approved one of her performances. However, the couple was never able to fully forgive each other, and their reunion remained only in the dreams of fans.
6. Romy Schneider and Alain Delon
Another love affair at work, which, moreover, began with mutual hatred - having met on the set of the film “Christine,” the impulsive Delon and the sophisticated Schneider immediately disliked each other. But a few months later, Romy moved from Australia to Paris to Alain, and a couple of months later their engagement was announced. The wedding, however, never took place - after some time, Delon was spotted by the paparazzi with a certain blonde, a little later he left Romi, and he married this blonde. Schneider remained bottom.
Coping with grief, she got married and forgot to think about Delon, until fate brought them together again on the set of the film “The Swimming Pool.” As it turned out, fate was here And Moreover, the role for Romy was procured by the actor himself. Passion flared with new strength, Schneider’s husband left, and soon Delon himself fled, again leaving the actress alone with herself and her pain.
Romy's suffering turned into a passion for alcohol, and in 1981 she suffered another blow - her 14-year-old son suddenly died. Soon the actress herself died of a broken heart.
Delon accepted death ex-lover as his own fault - he wrote about this in a letter published in one of the newspapers: “It was because of me that your heart stopped beating. Because of me, because 25 years ago I was made your partner in Christina.
7. Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger
Williams and Ledger met on the set of the controversial film Brokeback Mountain. According to the actors' colleagues, their romance flared up immediately. The couple was happy together for three years - in 2008, after the birth of their daughter Matilda, they announced their engagement. However, they never got married - after some time, both actors announced a break in relations. For the press, the main version was the employment of Ledger and Williams. But close sources said that the matter was Heath’s addiction to drugs. The actor also experienced a difficult and painful breakup with Michelle with their help. And soon he was found dead in own home. He allegedly accidentally mixed strong sleeping pills, after which he could no longer wake up.
Williams suffered from the loss for a long time and is unlikely to fully recover from it now. In an interview, she said that no one can even imagine how many things died for her along with Heath.
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