Prominent morganatic marriages people.marriage the 1615 marriage of King Christian IV of Denmark to noblewoman Kirsten Munk .

In 1972 Bob Thomas of the Associated Press remarked specifically about the tendency to ignore lasting celebrity marriages people.marriage the examples he gave including Bob Hope 's marriage to Dolores Hope and Rosalind Russell 's marriage to producer Frederick Brisson .

Ever since , these Adi Dharma rites have been used by the Gandhi-Nehru family for their marriages people.marriage such as for Rajiv Gandhi to Sonia Gandhi , Sanjay Gandhi to Maneka Gandhi , Priyanka Gandhi to Robert Vadra etc . and the `` Vedic '' law of Adi Dharma has never been repealed despite passage of the Hindu Code in 1955 which repealed all such similar marriage validity laws for other faiths .

In arranging the marriages people.marriage his children , Philip followed an intelligent diplomatic and strategic design , which would be followed by his successors in Burgundy as far as Emperor Maximilian I . For example , the double marriage in 1385 at Cambrai of his son , John the Fearless , and his daughter , Marguerite , to Margaret of Bavaria and William of Bavaria , son and daughter of Albert , Count of the neighbouring Hainault and Holland , prepared the later union of Hainault and Holland with Burgundy and Flanders , as carried out by Philip 's grandson , Philip the Good ; the marriages also inserted the new Valois Burgundy dynasty into the Wittelsbach network of alliances : the other daughters of Count Albert had married William I , Duke of Guelders and Wenceslaus , King of Bohemia ; their cousin , Isabeau of Bavaria , had married Charles VI of France , and become Queen of France .

She attended the following royal marriages people.marriage the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer ( 1981 ) ; Anne , Princess Royal , to Captain Mark Phillips ( 1972 ) and Princess Anne 's subsequent marriage to Commander Timothy Laurence ( 1992 ) ; Prince Andrew , Duke of York , to Sarah Ferguson ( 1986 ) .

Half-sibling marriages people.marriage found in ancient Japan such as the marriage of Emperor Bidatsu and his half-sister Empress Suiko .

There had already been several marriages people.marriage members of the Russian Imperial Family and members of the Württemberg Royal Family ( in addition to the marriage between Olga ’ s paternal grandparents ) : Olga ’ s future father-in-law , King William I of Württemberg , married Olga ’ s paternal aunt , Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia ; Olga ’ s paternal uncle , Grand Duke Michael of Russia , married William I ’ s niece , Princess Charlotte of Württemberg .

These marriages people.marriage the tradition of cementing military and political alliances between France and Spain that began with the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559 as part of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis .

Whilst shortly beforehand the Habsburg emperor had been the most important focal point through political marriages people.marriage the Wolfenbüttel line of the Welfs became closely linked to the Hohenzollerns through the marriage of the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick to Elisabeth Christine .

When second or subsequent marriages people.marriage included the oldest monarch at the time of his marriage was Edward I , whose second marriage was to Margaret of France in 1299 when he was old and she was only 19 .

Since the law did not distinguish , for marital purposes , between ruler and subjects , marriages people.marriage royalty and the noble heiresses to great fiefs became the norm through the 16th century , helping to aggrandize the House of Capet while gradually diminishing the number of large domains held in theoretical vassalage by nobles who were , in practice , virtually independent of the French crown : by the marriage of Catherine de ' Medici to the future King Henry II in 1533 , the last of these provinces , the county of Auvergne , came to the crown of France .