Weddings & Divorces in History on February 10

Weddings in History

Queen Victoria

1840 British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later the Prince Consort at St James' Palace

Millard Fillmore

1858 US President Millard Fillmore (58) weds Caroline Carmichael (43) in Albany, New York

  • 1863 P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren, both midgets, in NYC

Herbert Hoover

1899 Future US President Herbert Hoover (24) marries college sweetheart Lou Henry (24) in Monterey California