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in modern times, I think one of the youngest brides (if not the youngest )was Queen Anne Marie of Greece.
in modern times, I think one of the youngest brides (if not the youngest )was Queen Anne Marie of Greece.
How old was she when she was married?
I think medival times are quite different and incomparable to today or even our century.
First of all most people didn't live that long, and secondly a protected childhood like we see today was not known back then. Even regular peasant folk married rather early (well maybe not quite at 8-15 but right after)
In our century however we protect children and we consider childhood a period of time that last until eighteen.
Which is why for ex Anne Marie of Denmark and Greece who fell in love at cute 16 was made to wait until 18.
That Ira von Fuerstenberg married THAT young however is very surprising. Her groom seriously could and should be accused (or at least supected of) pedophelia...
BTW another quite young royal bride was Victorias oldest daughter Princess Vicky, princess royal and later Empress Frederic. She married her prince a couple of days short of her 18 birthday due to her parents insistence she should wait. Engaged she had been since she was fourteen.
And her descendant QEII had decided upon her partner-in-life rather early as well, however she too would have to wait until convention would allow for a wedding....
It was very common back then, especially within royal families, for half-siblings to get married to each other. The pharaoh Tuthankhamon and his queen Ankhusenamon (sp?) had the same father, pharaoh Akhnaton, but different mothers. And one of the few female pharaohs, Hatschesput, was also married to her half-brother. And in the Bible, Abraham and Sarah had the same father, but different mothers, so they too got married to each other, even though they were half-siblings. But there still seems to have been a rule, that while you could marry a half-sibling, if you had the same father, you couldn't marry a half-sibling, if you had the same mother.
And why did Cleopatra kill her brother/husband? Well, she was a very ambitious woman. That's why she's so famous even today. But back then, a woman could hardly get power, except through getting married to a powerful man. Cleopatra obviously preferred Julius Ceasar, who became more and more powerful, over her brother/husband Ptolemy XIII. So he was killed, and Cleopatra soon had a son with Julius Ceasar named Ceasarion or Ptolemy XIV (he was killed though, when he was very young). So to make a long story short, Ptolemy XIII was killed because of a power struggle, and because his sister/wife Cleopatra wanted the men, who had the most power.
So who was the eldest?
starxxgirl said:Apparently Kate Middleton is the oldest British royal bride at 29.
Apparently Kate Middleton is the oldest British royal bride at 29.
magnik said:Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. May 1443)
- almost 7 on her first marriege with John de la Pole (Jan/Feb 1450)
- 12 on her second/first marriege to Edmund Tudor (Nov 1455).
And Zara Phillips will be a bit older - she will have turned 30 at the moment of her wedding, like her sister-in-law, Autumn Phillips (if everything goes well, of course)Apparently Kate Middleton is the oldest British royal bride at 29.