Meghan is far from being the first famous person to walk down the aisle with a royal.
Some people are plucked from obscurity and gain worldwide fame when said someone gets engaged and marries into royalty.
, who came from a well-off but otherwise ordinary family from the English countryside, is an example, and she will one day -- barring divorce, or heaven forbid, death -- will be queen consort to the future King William. , already had some level of fame before falling in love with a royal, which can be a blessing and a curse, since they came with a public personal history and heightened scrutiny. Meghan is far from the only actress or otherwise famous person to fall for a blue blood.
That makes sense, because famous people know famous people. Lots of the marriages between royals and celebrities happened because they ran in the same circles, or were invited to the same exclusive events and hit it off. Some royals flat out pursuedwho could bring glamour and attention -- and even money -- into their royal houses, and some celebrities married people with royal blood who didn't even know they had it.
Other royal-celeb romances have weathered opposition and scandal, but somehow made it to the altar when other romances fell by the wayside. Because of all the scrutiny, and all the rules and sacrifices involved in living as a royal -- and in many cases, irreconcilable differences -- some of these marriages didn't last, though others are still going strong.
Along the way, though, these celebrity royal brides and grooms have tweaked what it means to be royal. Here are 15 famous people who married royals.The most famous Hollywood screen siren from the 1940s -- nicknamed the Love Goddess -- got married five times, and, son of the Aga Khan and leader of a sect of Shia Muslims. Her marriage may have been the first time that a Hollywood actress became a princess, but it only lasted from 1949 to 1953, after which Rita returned to acting.
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