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Meghan Markle wasn’t the first actress to marry into royalty – from Grace Kelly to Jamie Lee Curtis, 6 more celebrities who found a real life prince charming

From Grace Kelly to Jamie Lee Curtis, here are celebrities, besides Megan Markle, who married royals. Photo: Instagram

Being a celebrity has its perks; besides rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, a handful of public figures often get to know members of a whole other tier – royalty.

Meghan Markle met Prince Harry when a mutual friend set the pair up on a blind date – but the American actress wasn’t the first celebrity to marry a real-life prince charming, and she won’t be the last. STYLE brings you the famous actresses, singers and models who married into royalty.

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Grace Kelly

 

Academy Award-winning actress Grace Kelly left a successful Hollywood career to marry the love of her life, Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Eternal Lifestyle reports that in 1955, Kelly was filming what would be her last Hollywood film in France, To Catch a Thief, when she happened to catch Prince Rainer’s eye.

Princess Grace in her wedding gown, created by Helen Rose, and Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Photo: handout

Despite objections from the actress’ father, the pair were married a year later, making Kelly the princess of Monaco. Unfortunately, her husband wouldn’t stand for any mention of Kelly’s past success so her films were banned in Hollywood. So, Kelly left Hollywood – permanently.

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Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth

 

Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth (née McQuiston) is a professional model and celebrity chef who has worked with fashion labels Dolce & Gabbana, Fiorucci and Harrods.

 

Emma married Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth in June 2013, and was recently made Britain’s first black marchioness.

 

The groom’s parents did not attend the wedding apparently because of racism issues, the Viscount and Viscountess told Vanity Fair. The pair have two sons together.

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Juliana Evans

 

Malaysian actress Juliana Evans started acting in commercials at the age of 12. She had already made quite the name for herself in the local entertainment industry when she met her husband, Tengku Shariffuddin Shah Tengku Shah Al-Hajj, who is a family member of both the Se­lan­gor and Johor royal households.

 

According to The Star, the couple tied the knot in April 2017 and celebrated with an intimate ceremony in an undisclosed location.

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Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde married into Italian royalty while still a teenager. Photo: AP

House medical drama series actress Olivia Wilde’s life could have been very different if she conformed to Italian royalty. She was only 19 when she secretly married Tao Ruspoli, the second son of Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, the ninth prince of Cerveteri and Italian royalty.

 

The pair got married in an abandoned school bus with two witnesses. According to People magazine, the marriage lasted eight years before the couple divorced.

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Oksana Voevodina

 

Miss Moscow 2015, model and beauty queen Oksana Voevodina married Sultan Muhammad V Faris Petra, the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, in 2018. The beauty queen was 24 years younger than the king and took on a new name, Rihana Oksana Petra, when she converted to Islam before her marriage.

 

The New Straits Times reported that the king divorced the pageant queen according to traditional Islamic law. Although the king did not confirm that he is the biological father, Oksana gave birth to her son on May 21, 2019.

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis married Christopher Guest, the fifth Baron Haden-Guest, in 1984. Photo: AFP

You may remember Jamie Lee Curtis from films and television shows like Freaky Friday (2003), Scream Queens (2015) and the more recent Knives Out (2019). The actress married Christopher Guest, a screenwriter, composer and the fifth Baron Haden-Guest, in 1984.

 

Curtis’ love life resembles a modern-day fairy tale. The Guardian claims that Curtis was flipping through a Rolling Stone magazine when she saw a picture of Guest and stated that she would marry him. Five months later, she did. The couple have two adopted children together. Technically, Curtis could be addressed as “Lady Haden-Guest”, but an interview with Architectural Digest revealed that she rejects the idea of the title, claiming that it has nothing to do with her.

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Olivia Wilde and Emma Weymouth are among the actresses, singers and models who have ventured beyond rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous – to actually becoming part of the royal set