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Weddings & Divorces in History on May 19

Weddings in History

  • 1359 John of Gaunt (19), English prince, son of Edward III, marries Blanche of Lancaster (17) at Reading Abbey
  • 1853 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar

LoveWedding of Interest

1880 Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (29) weds Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne (40) in San Francisco

Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson
Novelist
Robert Louis Stevenson

LoveWedding of Interest

1908 Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent (26) weds Jeanne Renault

12th Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent
12th Prime Minister of Canada
Louis St. Laurent

LoveWedding of Interest

1970 US Vice President Al Gore weds (22) weds author Tipper Aitcheson (21) at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

45th Vice President of the United States Al Gore
45th Vice President of the United States
Al Gore

LoveWedding of Interest

2012 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (28) weds his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan at a small ceremony in Palo Alto, California

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Founder
Mark Zuckerberg
  • 2013 Former Armor for Sleep frontman Ben Jorgensen (29) weds actress Katrina Bowden (24) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in NYC, New York

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