COMMONERS WHO MARRIED ROYALS - Past Simple

Prince Harry, Prince of Wales and an American actress Meghan Markle

News of their engagement was announced in November 2017.
The wedding: 19th May 2018 at noon - Windsor Castle

This is not the first time when a non-royal person has married into a royal family—here are some commoners who
married into royalty:

Diana, Princess of Wales Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco

Born into a British aristocratic family, she _____________
(become) Lady Diana as her father _____________
(inherit) the title of Earl Spencer. She ____________
(work) as an assistant in a Kindergarten in London. Diana
_______ (get) married to Prince Charles, heir to the British
throne in 1981. Loved by the people, she __________
(live) what seemed to be a fairy-tale life. After the divorce,
she ____________ (devote) her time to help charities. She
________ (die) in a car crash in 1997.
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Grace Kelly _______ (be) a big Hollywood star, an Academy
Award-winning actress. She ____________ (marry) Prince
Rainier III in 1956. It ________ (be) the Wedding of the
Century. A model of elegance, the princess ____________
(adapt) perfectly to the royal lifestyle and ___________
(earn) the love of the people immediately. She __________
(die) very young (53) in a car accident.
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Queen Letizia of Spain Charlene, Princess of Monaco

Letizia _______ (be) a newsreader when she ___________
(catch) the attention of Prince Felipe in 2002. He ________
(ask) his friend to arrange a dinner party to meet her. After
a year of dating, the couple ______________ (marry) in
2004, in Madrid. As a commoner and already divorced, it
__________ (take) many by surprise. She
______________ (become) the Queen of Spain in 2014, as
King Juan Carlos I _________________ (abdicate).
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Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Charlene _______ (be)
Olympic swimmer for South Africa. She _______ (meet)
Prince Albert II in 2000 in Monaco during a swimming meet.
They ____________ (start) dating in 2006, ________ (get)
engaged in 2010 and the couple ___________ (tie) the knot
in 2011.
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Queen Máxima of the Netherlands

Born in Buenos Aires- Argentina, Máxima is the daughter of
Princess Sofia of Sweden, Duchess of Värmland a politician who _______ (be) a minister in a dictatorship
Sofia Hellqvist ________ (be) a model and a reality TV star. government. In 2002 she _____________ (marry) Willem-
In 2015 she __________ (marry) Prince Carl Philip in a Alexander, then Prince of Orange. Although her father's
lavish ceremony at the Royal Palace chapel in Stockholm. political past ___________ (cause) polemics, today as
Queen, she is one of the most cherished members of the
Dutch royal family.
 ______________ (earn) the love and respect of the
Norwegian people. The couple wed in 2001.

Empress Michiko of Japan

Michiko Shoda, comes from a respectable industrial and
academic family. She _________ (meet) the Prince at a
tennis match in 1957. They _______________ (marry) two
years later. Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
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successful lawyer born in Australia. She ________ (meet)
Prince Frederik during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. They
________ (get) engaged three years later and got married
in 2004, in Copenhagen.

Queen Rania of Jordan

A doctor's daughter, she _________ (be) born in Kuwait in
1970 to a family of Palestinian origin. Before her marriage,
she ____________ (earn) a degree in business
administration from the American University in Cairo. She
____________ (work) for Citibank and Apple. She
________ (meet) the Prince at a dinner party in 1993. Two
months later, they _________________ (announce) their
engagement.
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Queen Silvia of Sweden
Born in Heidelberg-Germany, Silvia ___________ (work) at
the Argentine Consulate in Munich, and also ____________
(serve) as an educational host at the 1972 Summer
Olympics in Munich, where she __________ (meet) Crown
Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden. The couple _________ (tie)
the knot in Stockholm in 1976, after being engaged for three
months.
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Queen Sonja of Norway

Born to a cloth merchant, Sonja and then-Crown Prince
Harald ___________ (date) for about 10 years. Their
relationship ________ (be) kept secret because of her non-
royal status. They _____ (get) married in 1968. After King
Olav's death in 1991, she ____________ (become) the first
Queen of Norway not of royal origin.
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Kate’s father ________ (be) a flight dispatcher and she
____________ (use) to work as an air hostess.
She ________ (meet) Prince William at the University in
Scotland, where they both ________ (be) studying. Their
Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway relationship ___________ (begin) in 2003.
Mette-Marit, whose father _______ (be) a journalist, They ________ (get) married in 2011. Prince William is the
_______ (be) a single mother with a rebellious past before second in line to the throne so one day she’s going to be the
becoming the Princess of Norway. Over time, she Queen.