While many royal marriages stand the test of time, plenty of other royal couplings have ended badly.
Other times it’s a very-public fight when a prince gets a little too friendly with female wedding guests.
And other times it’s because the prince prefers the company of the men who work in the kitchen.
So read on for some royal marriages that ended badly, both on “The Crown” and beyond.
Initially, the royal was married to Captain Mark Phillips in 1973, and had two sons.
And, in true British fashion, the first place they ended up was in The Sun.
Not surprisingly, her first marriage subsequently ended badly.
Pictures of the new pair plastered the tabloids shortly after, the documentary recalled.
And Anne married her new man that December in Scotland.
And the poster child for the Grimaldi family’s marital misfortune is Princess Caroline of Monaco.
The Associated Press reported he hit a wave at nearly 94 miles per hour, and neither survived.
This was after Caroline had divorced her first husband Philippe Junot, described byUPIas a “Parisian playboy.”
The marriage ended badly in 1980.
Yeah, now imagine they’re the Prince and Princess of Denmark.
Princess Alexandra clearly was having none of it, and left.
Channeling her inner Veruca Salt, she hollered to her driver, “I want my car NOW!”
and left in a huff.
Madesen curtly added, “After that, it is understood divorce proceedings were initiated.”
Clearly, that marriage ended badly.
Indeed, their royal marriage ended badly.
Or maybe the paparazzo was a little too enterprising.
Why the quick dismissal?
When Sineenatra failed, the king named her consort, to help smooth things over.
The harshly public title-stripping seemed to be the end of Sineenatra, but later the king reinstated her titles.
Also hampering the marriage was Ernest’s widely known preference for the company of men, according toVanity Fair.
To that end, Ducky begged her grandmother to be released from the marriage.
Talk about a marriage ending badly!
Fry gave birth to their daughter three weeks into the royal honeymoon.
Her most famous boyfriend, however, was Roddey Llewellyn.
Why did Queen Elizabeth’s oldest grandchild get divorced?
“Perhaps she thought if that can happen then I can leave as well?
That might be unfair on her but you have to consider it.”
A 1924 coup forced the imperial couple to move to Tianjin, where Wanrong reportedly became addicted to opium.
Either way, Wanrong slowly succumbed to mental illness as a result and died in prison in 1946.
But the fairytale didn’t last long.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorcedin 1992.
The divorce was finalized in 1996.
“I spent my entire first pregnancy alone,” Fergie revealed.
Still, the couple has remained amicable, despite the marriage ending badly.
They have two children together, according to theBBC, but similarly omitted mentioning them in the statement.
In 2004, DavinamarriedNew Zealander Gary Lewis in Kensington Palace.
She had met Lewis, a Maori surfer,sheep shearer, and builder, while visiting Bali.
In 2019, the couple announced in astatementthat they were divorced.
The couple had two children during their marriage, Senna Kowhai and Tane Mahuta.
While married, they had lived in Auckland and in London.
We may never know the real reason why Davina and Lewis decided to part ways.
However, according to theDaily Mail, it may have had something to do with “cultural differences.”
As royal divorces go, this one may have been one of the least dramatic.
The pair had met while serving in the army together.
In these difficult times, they ask for privacy."
For Tessy, it was a difficult time.
Literally, I couldn’t walk, properly speak, eat…
I had so much anxiety and couldn’t even go shopping for food."
According to her, it was a combination of pressure, stress, and fear of public scrutiny.
As she is a businesswoman, she finds it “hard to admit defeat and failure.”
Eventually, Tessy started taking medication for depression, but she knows getting over the divorce will take time.
“Divorce was one of the most painful things I have gone through,” she said.
“I lost 98% of my friends,” as perTatler.
