Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
1878 Novelist Bram Stoker (31) weds Florence Balcombe (20) in Dublin, Ireland
Bram Stoker
Wedding of Interest
1973 NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle (47) weds activist Carrie Cooke
Pete Rozelle
Wedding of Interest
1976 Actress Elizabeth Taylor (44) marries for the 7th time to politician John Warner (49)
Elizabeth Taylor
Wedding of Interest
1979 Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
Liza Minnelli
- 1999 Philippe, Duke of Brabant and heir apparent to Belgium throne marries the honourable Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz
Wedding of Interest
1999 Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium (38) weds Queen Mathilde of Belgium (25) in Brussels, Belgium
Philippe of Belgium
Famous Divorces
Divorce of Interest
2015 Actors Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas divorce after 19 years of marriage
Antonio Banderas
December in History
How the First Sherlock Holmes Story was Sold for a Song
How did an English publisher most famous for giving the world Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management come to publish the first Sherlock Holmes story?
December 1, 1887Fish Dish Finishes Off a King
Doctors warned King Henry I against eating lampreys. But he enjoyed the slippery fish and happily devoured a plateful of them leading to his death on this day.
December 1, 1135Mozart, the Incomparable Musical Genius
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical genius who composed over 600 works in his short lifetime, died mysteriously on this day and was buried unceremoniously.
December 5, 1791Real-life Tragedy for Theatrical Family
On this day a tragedy engulfed one of Britain’s noted theatrical families of the early 20th century.
December 8, 1926
