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Paul, a graduate student in New York City, and Donna, a financial adviser, are just two in a long, flourishing line of kissin' first cousins. Charles Darwin wed his cousin Emma and spawned 10 children, including four brilliant scientists. Albert Einstein's second wife Elsa was his first cousin. Queen Victoria said "I do" to hers. So have millions worldwide. In parts of Saudi Arabia, 39% of all marriages are between first cousins...
Queen, however, was not a role she coveted. A persistent rumor has it that the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth rejected Prince Albert's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 13th year of a quiet marriage and the parents of two girls when Albert's older brother Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorce. Albert thereupon became King George VI and Elizabeth his Queen Consort...
...warned his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, when he embarked upon courting the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth. Sure enough, a persistent rumor has it that she rejected the prince's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 14th year of a quiet marriage and were the parents of two girls when Albert's older brother Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson, an American who divorced her second husband...
...marriage on that basis. Just last week, Charles and Camilla were together for the first time at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the Queen, at a concert by famed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Now, with the death of the Queen Mother, Charles and Camilla may feel more free to wed...
...Ball seemed familiar in its contours. He was a lively 85-year-old widower and former Kansas state legislator who made a pile in the stock market. She was half his age, an assistant professor of finance at his alma mater, Park College. Four months after they met they wed...