Seven famous people married to relatives
'02.12.2018'
Source: Mail.ru
Love is evil, and love your relative. Edition Mail.ru spoke about famous people who married with their relatives. All the heroes of the compilation are respected members of society, inventors, writers and kings, and not at all renegades who are haunted by the law, as one might think.
Woody Allen
Director-genius, a connoisseur of the human soul. What kind of epithets did not award the 82-year-old Woody Allen, the author of the hit moviesVicky, Cristina, Barcelona","Midnight in ParisAnd others. All these loud epithets did not prevent the chief director of New York from marrying his own stepdaughter - the adopted daughter of his former wife, actress Mia Farrow. With Farrow, Allen lived more than 12 years, all this time they brought up their adopted daughter Sun-Preven. The director spun an affair with Sun-and even during the marriage - it was this connection that caused the separation from Farrow. The stepdaughter is nearly forty years younger than Allen. For this reason, Mia Farrow tried to accuse the former spouse of molesting minors, but the case fell apart in court. That didn’t stop Woody Allen and Sun — and get married and live happily in a marriage for more than 20 years — right up to today.
Albert Einstein
The creator of the theory of relativity, a genius, a physicist and humanist, who fiercely denounced fascism, a German Albert Einstein most of his life he lived in marriage with his cousin Elsa. They got married in 1919 year. For Einstein, this was a second marriage: his first wife, Mileva Maric, was his student. Einstein married Elsa just two months after the official divorce.
Physicist biographers argued that Elsa was very similar to Einstein's mother both in appearance and in character. She cared for Albert and created an atmosphere at home that would not interfere with his work. They lived in a marriage until Elsa died of a heart disease in 1936. After her, Einstein no longer married.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Din of the most controversial examples of cohabitation with relatives - the founder of rock and roll Jerry Lee Lewis. He was called the successor Elvis Presley and praised for virtuoso playing the piano. However, some fans hated Lewis when in May 1958, he married his 13-year-old great-niece Myra Gail Brown. The press actually destroyed the musician for this connection: most of his concerts were canceled, and the songs were removed from the radio.
He lived with Myra 12 for years. The couple divorced in 1970 year - this was the impetus for a new round of popularity in the life of Lewis. He began touring again in the United States, and in 1980, he was admitted to the hall of fame rock and roll. Today is Lewis 83 of the year. During his life, the loving musician married seven times - the latter in 2012, when he was already deep in seventy.
Edgar Allan Poe
A writer who was one of the first to introduce the genres of "thriller" and "horror" into literature, Edgar Allan Poe was married to his cousin Virginia. They married in 1836: the writer was 27 years old, and Virginia was only 13. Soon his wife fell ill with tuberculosis: she had frequent attacks with throat bleeding, after which she was left bedridden for a long time. The writer's biographers believe that it was his wife's illness that influenced the gloomy style of Poe's works.
Virginia passed away in the 1847 year. The writer outlived her by two years. His health was undermined by alcoholism and depression, which developed during the time of Virginia's illness.
Charles Darwin
The creator of the theory of evolution, Darwin himself went evolution in defiance of and married a cousin Emma. It is known that Emma penetrated the scientist with deep sympathy long before marriage. In 1831, Darwin went sailing around the world aboard the Beagle. This journey took five years - all this time, Emma wrote letters to him and rejected the insistent marriage proposals from fans. Darwin himself, on his return, approached the issue of marriage very responsibly. He wrote on a piece of paper all the pros and cons of marriage. The arguments for won, and only after that the scientist led Emma to the altar. The couple lived together all their lives and had 10 children. Three of them died in early childhood. The others were often ill and weak in health: Darwin, who studied the consequences of incestuous marriages, knew why this happened, and blamed himself for it.
Thomas Jefferson
3 th president of the United States and one of the authors of the "Declaration of Independence" Thomas Jefferson in his personal life professed the same principles of independence as in government. He married his second cousin Martha in 1772 — such marriages were common, and did not cause condemnation from society. However, in parallel, as it turned out, for many years the president had a black slave Sally Hemmings in mistresses. Officially, Sally belonged to the president’s father-in-law, his wife’s father — this did not prevent the president from having an affair with her.
In legal marriage, Thomas Jefferson had six children. Slave Sally Hemmings gave birth to eight: Thomas Jefferson was the father of at least one of them - although historians believe that he could be the father of all eight.
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of longevity Elizabeth II got married back in 1947 year - for the great-grandson of Queen Victoria, a lieutenant of the British fleet Philippe Mountbatten (now bears the title of Duke of Edinburgh). According to complex royal relations, Philip and Elizaveta are each other's four cousins in the Victoria line and second cousins in the Danish royal blood line.
Live happily now. They brought up and raised four children (among them, Prince Charles, the future heir to the crown). Have you ever seen Prime Ministers? Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair — they all left their posts, some died, and the queen and duke still occupy the Iron Throne.
