When Meghan Markle says her vows with Prince Harry, she will become the latest Yank to marry into a royal family. Here's a look at a few others. Wallis Simpson's planned marriage with King Edward VIII caused him to abdicate. She was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing a divorce with her second. Edward abdicated in December 1936 and the couple wed in June 1937 after Simpson's divorce was made final.
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Rita Hayworth married Prince Aly Khan in 1949. The prince was her third husband. They divorced four years later.
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In a storybook setting, former actress Grace Kelly married Price Rainier III of Monaco in 1956. She was killed in a September 1982 automobile accident.
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Caroline Lee Bouvier married Prince Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill in 1959. They divorced in 1974.
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Hope Cooke married King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last monarch of Sikkim, in 1963. They divorced in 1980.
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Lisa Halaby married King Hussein of Jordan in 1978. It was his fourth marriage. She took on the name Queen Noor. He passed away in 1999.
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Marie Chantal Miller married Prince Pavlos, crown prince of Greece, in 1995.
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Alexandra Miller married Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg in 1995. They separated in 2002 and were divorced.
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Kelly Rondestvedt married Hubertus Michael, hereditary Prince of Saxony-Coburg, in 2009.
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Kendra Spears married Prince Rahim Aga Khan in 2013.
