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Famous Weddings

• 1576 Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

• 1884 American "Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• 1929 American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings weds 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton; divorce in 1932

Elvis Presley & Priscilla Presley

1967 American 'King of Rock and Roll' Elvis Presley (32) weds American actress Priscilla Presley née Beaulieu (21) at Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; divorce in 1973

Kate Jackson

1982 American "Charlie's Angels" actress Kate Jackson (33) weds second husband, American business executive David Greenwald in Beverly Hills, California; divorce in 1984

• 1996 American television personality show host Kelly Ripa (26) weds film actor, and future morning show co-host, Mark Consuelos (25) in Las Vegas, Nevada

Uma Thurman

1998 American "Reality Bites" actor Ethan Hawke (27) weds American "Pulp Fiction" actress Uma Thurman (28); separate in 2003, and divorce in 2005

• 1999 American "As Good As It Gets" actor Greg Kinnear (35) weds British model Helen Labdon (29) at Boxgrove Priory in Chichester, West Sussex, England
• 1999 American "Dixie Chicks" singer Emily Erwin (26) weds American country music singer-songwriter Charlie Robison (34) at Lone Star State in Texas; divorce in 2008
• 2009 American Olympic swimming gold medalist Amanda Beard (27) weds photographer Sacha Brown (34) in Wakatobia, Indonesia
• 2010 American actor-producer Seth Green (36) weds actress Clare Grant (30) at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Nacasio, California
• 2016 Paralympic athlete Aimee Mullins (39) weds "Homeland" star Rupert Friend (34) in a magical hobbit-y compost shed
• 2019 English "Game of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner (23) and American pop singer Joe Jonas (29) are married by an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas, Nevada; separate in 2023
• 2019 Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn marries for the fourth time to Suthida Tidjai, deputy head of his bodyguard, days before his coronation

Famous Divorces

Mick Jagger

1978 Actress and model Bianca Jagger (32) files for divorce from Rolling Stone singer Mick Jagger (34) after 7 years of marriage on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall

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