It turns out that family marriages between famous personalities are not so rare.
The brilliant physicist married his cousin Else Löwenthal, who became his second wife. Fun fact: Loewenthal is her first husband’s last name, but Elsa’s maiden name is also Einstein. She got it back when she married the author of the theory of relativity.
The former mayor of New York married his second cousin Regina Perugia.
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The director of the film “Lawrence of Arabia” was married to his cousin Isabelle Lyn.
The famous naturalist married his cousin Emma Wedgwood. They had 10 children, three of whom died in infancy, and some were weak and sickly. Interestingly, this personal experience was reflected in Darwin’s scientific work on inbreeding. The scientist was sure that the ailments of his children were due to the fact that he and his wife were parents. However, other children were unaffected by the incest and made significant progress in math, botany, and engineering.
The 32nd President of the United States was married to his sixth cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also the niece of the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
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The famous poet and writer married his cousin Virginia Clemm when she was just 13 years old. Poe himself was then 26 years old. The writer’s wife died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 – the death of her beloved had a strong influence on the writer and his work.
The actor and his wife Kyra Sedgwick discovered they were distant cousins while on TV show Finding Roots. Kira is Kevin’s cousin.
Royal dynasties have a long tradition of consanguineous marriages to keep blue blood, and the modern British royal family has been no exception. Thus, the late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip were fourth cousins.
When Wells was 25, he married his cousin Isabelle. Very little is known of Isabelle; she was born in either 1865 or 1866, that is, she was 15 or 16 when they married. They were only married for three years – after that, Wells, who was a teacher, married his student.
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