Marriage
On June 5, 1957, Princess Margarita married Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, younger brother of King Peter II of Yugoslavia in a civil ceremony in Salem followed by Lutheran and Serbian Orthodox church services on June 6. Prince Philip and King Simeon of Bulgaria were among the witnesses.
From this marriage were born Prince Nikolas (1958) and Princess Katarina (1959).
The couple settled in the UK, running a fruit farm near Billingshurst in Sussex. They were divorced in 1981. Princess Margarita did not remarry.
Read more about this topic: Princess Margarita Of Baden
Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)