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Historic Love and Marriages From Hell

Khalid Elhassan September 22, 2020 31 min

Jerry Lee Lewis - Myra Gale Brown — Jerry Lee Lewis and his child bride, back home after a disastrous overseas trip. The Commercial Appeal

33. Married Life With No Love

Princess Augusta and her family in 1939. Wikimedia

Augusta’s married life was just as awkward as her wedding had been. The new Princess of Wales continued playing with her dolls, until her relatives finally forced her to stop. Her husband, taking advantage of his wife’s naivety, got Augusta to employ his mistress as her lady of the bedchamber, after convincing her that rumors of an affair were fake news.

The Prince of Wales and his parents had a lot of family drama going on, and Augusta was often dragged unwillingly into the middle of the mess, taking fire from both sides. Stuck in a marriage without a glimmer of love, she nonetheless performed her expected role and gave birth to nine children. However, she never got the hoped for payout of becoming queen consort: Augusta’s husband died before her father-in-law. Upon the latter’s death, the crown went to her son, George III.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.