Here’s a look at some of the biggest age gaps between royal pairings in history.
Charles later explained that Diana’s youth was part of her appeal to him.
I mean great fun, bouncy and full of life and everything" (viaYouTube).
Diana was 19 when she said yes to Charles' proposal.
Their age gap would go on to be a major feature intheir marriage.
I thought, ‘What a strange question uh, answer.’
God, absolutely traumatized me" (viaToday).
The two would go on to have one child, a daughter who was born in August 1880.
William and Sophie had three sons together: William, Maurice, and Alexander.
Enter: Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont.
Both of William’s surviving sons refused to attend the wedding and the Netherlands did not initially accept Emma.
She also gave birth to two infants who died as children.
Oxford also explains that King William IV ascended the throne with Adelaide as his queen consort in 1830.
When her husband died seven years later, Adelaide was the first queen dowager in a century.
He married Elisabeth of Pilica following Anna’s passing, though the two didn’t have children together.
At the time of their marriage, Henry was 45 years old and Jane was 28 years old.
She also gave birth to the pair’s son, Edward VI, in October 1537.
PerVogue, the two had what was described as a somewhat more low-key royal wedding than most.
The pair, who had a 17-year age difference, ended up divorcing two years after they got married.
I always look at a person.
I convinced [my] parents of this" (viaNasvete).
Gloria gained several nicknames throughout the 1980s, including “Punk Princess” and “Princess TNT.”
In fact, their schloss in Regensburg is much larger than Buckingham Palace.
And you should see the way it is kept up.
My dears, there isn’t a corner where you couldn’t eat off the floor."
The two had a 35-year age gap, but that didn’t stop them from having five children together.
Lennart and Sonja met when the latter became employed as her future husband’s assistant.
Their marriage was the third for Count Athanasius, who had previously been twice widowed (perNapoleon.org).
She soon became Napoleon’s mistress, and the pair had a son together.
