Weddings in History
Johan Willem Friso & Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel
1709 Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother & George VI
1923 English prince Albert Duke of York (George VI) (27) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (22) at Westminster Abbey
- 1946 Father Divine, controversial religious leader claimed to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement
Jorge Luis Borges
1986 Writer Jorge Luis Borges (86) weds author Maria Kodama (49) in Paraguay
- 2014 Actor Brian Baumgartner (41) weds Celeste Ackelson in Los Angeles, California
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