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