Les Pires Nuits de Noces Royales -parte 1 e 2- Curiosités Historiques- Histoire et Mythologie en BD

It was a time when royal marriages were only a private affair, a polite ritual to which television cameras and journalists had no access. But history books tell many interesting anecdotes about these ceremonies, which, in most cases, had nothing to do with love. Most royal couples only met at the wedding ceremony. Then they left for their nuptial night. But as we can imagine, some nuptials ended in the worst possible way. In this regard, we have drawn up a list of the worst royal wedding nights in history. We start the video with Catherine the Great's wedding night with Peter III of Russia. Catherine the Great's wedding with Peter III of Russia was a splendid event. The bride, who came from Germany to marry the unpleasant Russian heir, seduced all the people present with her beauty, her elegance and her adaptation to Russian life. The Empress Elisabeth of Russia had hopes for her because she did not trust her nephew, whom she considered lazy, drunk, a jester and brainless. Catherine's disillusionment appeared on her wedding night, when she waited for her new husband for hours. Peter eventually appeared drunk, lay down next to her and fell asleep. The following nights were terrifying. At 18, Peter was insensitive to his wife's beauty and preferred to have fun with small wooden soldiers, miniature cannons and fortress models. During the day, these toys were hidden under the bed. But after dinner, when the couple went to bed, the bedroom door was closed and the fun began. Lying next to Catherine, Peter's eyes shone when it was time to play. And sometimes it lasted until 2 a.m. Henry IV was King of Castile and brother of Isabella of Castile, the queen who unified the Kingdom of Spain with Ferdinand of Aragon. The king was kind and gentle, but he had serious physical problems. Henry suffered from a form of acromegalia, or giganticism. His hands and feet were too big. His head was abnormally large, with very coarse lines, and he was very tall. In short, he was a kind and intimidating giant, oppressed by his physical flaws, and who was only happy when he was far from the eyes of the public. Throughout his life, he had little contact with his half-brothers. Henry was first married at the age of 15, in Blanc-de-Navarre. They stayed together for 13 years, but without any inheritance. The marriage was canceled. Without the consummation of the first marriage, a second marriage was arranged for Henry. His new wife was another Iberian princess, Jeanne of Portugal. Jeanne was 16 years old, and she was remarkably beautiful. Like other European princesses, she was only a currency to seal the alliance with her brother, King Alfonso V. It is interesting to note that before his marriage, the king abolished the law that made the nun a public spectacle, perhaps foreseeing what was going to happen. According to reports, the first night of the couple was not good. The king's sperm was corroded. The doctors had to masturbate to Henry IV with their bare hands. The result was considered to be sterile, despite the attempt at artificial insemination. A thin gold tube was inserted into Jeanne with the sperm that her husband had produced. The goal was for Jeanne to receive her husband's sperm. But Jeanne did not succeed, said the German doctor who went to Castile to carry out the procedure. Despite this failure, it was the first attempt at artificial insemination recorded in history. Henry's problems were enough to give birth to a cruel nickname, which also became a metaphor for his kingdom. Henry was nicknamed the impotent, and his nun with Jeanne was a horror. The British royalty is an environment conducive to unhappy marriages. Charles II is associated with 56 bastards. Edward VII used to go to the brothels. And everyone remembers what happened with Charles and Diana's marriage. But a union failed the night of the wedding. That of Caroline of Brunswick, 1768-1821, with King George IV, 1762-1830. The Prince of Wales at the time stubbornly refused to find a wife. And he only accepted when the Parliament allowed him to pay his debts, born of a life marked by addiction to laudanum and prostitution. The courtiers advised him to marry his cousin Caroline of Brunswick. At the time, she led a provincial life in the principality of her parents. He had seen her face only on family portraits. The couple met three days before the wedding, and the first impression could not have been worse. George went to the other end of the palace and had a glass of cognac. Caroline declared that her future husband was bigger and not as handsome as he had been painted. The wedding took place on April 8, 1795. George confessed to his two witnesses that he was marrying against his own will. According to the chroniclers, he fainted twice during the ceremony. He would also have looked at one of his mistresses while making his wishes. Who will cry when the archbishop asks if someone has objections to the wedding? Of course, the wedding was consummated, but it lasted a terrible night of bones. The drunk groom spent the night warming up near the fireplace, and the bride waiting for him in bed and nothing else. According to the newspapers of the time, there were only three sexual relations between the couple, one of which gave birth to Princess Charlotte Augusta. And after that, George announced that he would never have sex with his wife again, not even to create a new heir. For many years, sex was one of the greatest taboos in Western society. This led to many embarrassing and traumatic situations, such as the one experienced by Marie-Joseph de Saxe on the evening of her marriage to the King of Spain, Ferdinand VII. Ferdinand VII's third marriage was with Marie-Joseph de Saxe, a young girl who was not yet 16 years old when she was officially united with the King of Spain in 1819. After her mother's death, the young girl was raised in a convent. Her knowledge of fleshly relations was non-existent. On the other hand, the monarch was known for his sexual overflow, in addition to his obsession with giving birth to an ill child, which ensured the continuity of the monarchy. At the time, before the night of bones began, the blood princess, already married and familiarly closer to the king, had the habit of spending 15 minutes with the bride, explaining what was going to happen next. But the moment came, the beautiful sister of the king, Marie-Thérèse de Braganze, refused to fulfill this role, because she was the sister of Isabelle de Braganze, the former wife of Ferdinand. In the absence of the princess, the function had to be assured by the oldest daughter-in-law, but she also refused, claiming that she had never noticed the things that her husband was doing with her or him. It was the king who explained what was going to happen that night in this room. The king entered the room of a 16-year-old frightened girl. She, seeing him fat, old and probably very excited, tried to escape. And the communication between them was impossible, since she did not know Spanish and he German. Ferdinand VII, furious, called his beautiful sister and older sister-in-law, to instruct her to marry her immediately. After the brief conversation of the two women with the young woman, the king returned to his room and prepared to consummate the marriage without encountering resistance. However, Marie-Joseph's fear was so great that, while Ferdinand penetrated her, she could not stand it and ended up defecating and urinating. The furious king cleaned himself as best he could and did not touch his wife for eight days. It is interesting to note that the queen died ten years later, without having children, despite several attempts. In the first video on the worst nurses in history, we were able to see shocking and striking stories, like that of Queen Marie-Joseph, which are unacceptable cases today. However, due to the many marriages arranged at the time, other horrible nurses took place. And as it was highly requested and commented, we decided to make a part 2 of the worst wedding nights in history. If you missed the first part, I would add a card above. The first nurse on this list is that of King Henry VIII, still him, with his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. Henry VIII remained single for more than two years after the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, in 1537. The search for a new queen began in 1538. With this new marriage, Henry was going to find a source of distraction and excitement. His wife was in charge of entertaining him to the point that he wanted to behave like a gentleman. The king ordered his ambassadors to find the ideal wife. At the time, the king of England did not have a very good reputation as a husband. Following the alliance, the chosen one was Anne of Cleves, sister of the Duke of Cleves, elector of the Holy Empire. On December 11, 1539, the young woman arrived at the port of Calais. She was about to get married without ever seeing her fiancé. The first meeting was not pleasant for the two of them, and Henry VIII made it clear that he did not like the applicant, that she was very different from the painting that had been sent to him. The wedding took place on January 6, 1540. She was only 23 years old, the king being 25 years older than her. Before the ceremony, the king tried by all means to get rid of his promise, but he failed. As expected, the wedding night was unpleasant. The meeting between the two was a huge failure from the king's point of view, because he began to flinch. They tried night after night, but the king's instrument did not work, and Anne remained as young as she was born, because the king did not want to insert anything in her. Henry accused the fallen saints of being the cause of his lack of pleasure. It should be remembered that the problem was not Anne of Cleves, and even less his saints, but Henry's need to get rid of her without assuming responsibility, and of course, without revealing his impotence. Finally, Henry reached an agreement with Anne, and the marriage was annulled. Anne lived very well after the annulment, surviving to Henry VIII. The marriage of Henry IV and Marguerite of Valois was doomed to failure. He was Protestant, and she was a Catholic princess, at a time when France was divided between its two religious currents. Marguerite of Valois was a princess of France, daughter of Catherine of Médicis and Henry II, and she married King Henry of Navarre on August 18, 1572. This took place during the most tumultuous days of the Reformation, when there were religious wars. Many people on both sides were strongly opposed to this marriage. At the time, dynastic marriages were a consequence of peace negotiations and arrangements between allies. However, this marriage was used by Catherine of Médicis to expel the Protestants from the French soil. On the night of August 23 to 24, 1572, many Catholics were sent to sow discord among the Protestants still present in the region because of the public ceremony. During the operation, about 3,000 people were assassinated. Today, it is one of the worst massacres in the history of France, known as the Massacre of St. Barthélemy. The events of the night of St. Barthélemy took place a few days after the wedding night. But it was thought that the consummation had not taken place and that the marriage could be canceled. However, to avoid the death of her husband, Marguerite told her mother that the consummation had taken place. After the honeymoon was interrupted by the massacre, the couple only met a few times. Henri became a prisoner and Marguerite a political pioneer. Later, Henri managed to escape and surrendered to Navarre. The couple never had a complete union. They lived in disagreement, he cheated on her and she cheated on him. Years passed and no inheritance was generated until the marriage was canceled. Isabel II d'Espagne is a little-known queen of the Brazilians. She ascended the throne of Spain in 1833, when she was still a child. Her reign was controversial, full of coups d'état and extra-conjugal adventures. From the beginning, the court was concerned with finding her a suitor, but the queen always put sticks in the wheels. Finally, the chosen one was the Duke of Cadix, François d'Assis de Bourbon, cousin of the queen. He was a man who avoided getting involved in politics. In addition, this union satisfied all the Spanish political parties. But despite everything, it made the queen unsure of herself. When she learned that François would be her future husband, she began to cry and implored her mother. She even said, No, not with Paquita! François d'Assis was a very effeminate man, he was suspected of being homosexual. This is why he was known in the Spanish court under the name of Paquita. The marriage between the two was celebrated on October 10, 1846. She was 16 at the time of the wedding and François 24. It is said that the day before the wedding celebration, Isabelle II said to her mother, Maria Cristina, It is something that I am asked as a queen, but not as a woman. I did not want this man to be my husband. They imposed it on me and I don't want it. As we can imagine, the wedding night was an absolute disaster. She even declared to her closest friends, What could I expect from a man who wore more lace than me on his wedding night? At first, the couple hated each other, but little by little they managed to establish a friendly relationship. Over the years, the husband became the advisor and friend of Isabelle II of Spain. The friendship was strong and the couple met to talk about their lovers. On the one hand, there was a nymphomaniac queen and on the other, a homosexual king. Louis XIII of France and the Spanish infant Anne of Austria had an unfortunate marriage, full of accusations and mistrust. The wedding took place on November 21, 1615. Both were only 15 years old. The wedding was arranged by Marie de Médicis, Queen Mother of France and Regent of Louis XIII. Marie de Médicis' regency was disastrous for France. Her relationship with her son was horrible, always putting her son aside and trying to take all the power that was due to her. To try a rapprochement with Spain, she made sure that her children married those of the King of Spain. Anne of Austria was destined for Louis XIII. The Spanish princess, daughter of King Philip III of Spain, was a new humiliation for Louis XIII, because he saw in Anne a simple Spaniard and therefore an enemy. But at that time, Louis was not in command and the wedding took place. Louis, at the age of 15, did not seem ready to take on this responsibility. The Sovereign was frail, immature, very shy and still full of puberty. The wedding night took place only because his mother forced him to. He was taken by Marie de Médicis and pushed into the conjugal bed. Two hours later, Louis returned to his room and showed his reddened face to his personal doctor, saying that he had done the act twice. It is difficult to say if he lied or failed, but nothing happened that night and they went back to bed together, only four years later. In last place on this list, we highlight the terrible wedding night of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette was the daughter of Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, as the future Louis XVI was the Dauphin of France and the grandson of Louis XV. Their marriage was a political arrangement between the dynastic houses of France and Austria, long-standing enemies. But at that time, a rapprochement was taking place and the marriage of the princes was a sign of it. For the wedding to take place, Marie Antoinette was re-educated in her ways and in her aesthetic. She had to adapt her criteria of beauty and her education to French customs. Louis was a shy and reserved young man who only thought about hunting and working with watches. His grandfather wanted his wife to be as beautiful as possible, thus arousing a desire for women that his grandson did not show. The wedding took place in April 1770, in a Viennese church. And it clearly looked like a political arrangement, since it was done by procuration. At the hotel, Maximilien, the brother of the bride, played the role of the Dauphin. After the ceremony, a procession of 57 carriages headed for France. On French territory, the young woman met King Louis XV, who was 60 years old. Then she met her fiancé. Louis Auguste, who had very little contact with women and was certainly a virgin, finally gave Marie Antoinette only a quick kiss on the cheek. A new wedding ceremony took place in Versailles, a faubourg in the suburbs of Paris, where the Court of France resided. Under the watchful gaze of the nobility, the couple went to bed. Everyone wanted the Dauphin to be quickly inherited, but this wedding night will remain forever in history. Something was happening that was going to repeat itself for years. Nothing, as the Dauphin wrote in his diary the next morning. Louis Auguste will not give birth to the Dauphin and the situation will last for seven long years. During this time, Marie Antoinette was under the pressure of everyone, but she was not responsible for anything. It is thought that the young Dauphin was suffering from phimosis. Therefore, every time he tried to practice the coit, he felt a strong pain in the vivi and gave up. It was only after a visit to the doctor that he was able to practice the coit and produce an heir.