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:
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)
“We lov’d, and we lov’d, as long as we could,
Till our love was lov’d out in us both;
But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled:
‘Twas pleasure first made it an oath.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)