--- title: Gallery Of Commoners Who Married Royalty description: Nine images of ordinary women who married European royalty canonical: https://time.com/2822574/finding-prince-charming-when-commoners-marry-royalty/ author: Mirren Gidda article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-19T13:59:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:18.765Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Gallery Of Commoners Who Married Royalty og:description: In this gallery take a look at ordinary women who married into European royalty. og:url: https://time.com/2822574/finding-prince-charming-when-commoners-marry-royalty/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gallery Of Commoners Who Married Royalty twitter:description: In this gallery take a look at ordinary women who married into European royalty. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Finding Prince Charming: When Commoners Marry Royalty by [Mirren Gidda](https://time.com/author/mirren-gidda/) ## Mirren Gidda Jun 19, 2014 1:59 PM UTC by [Mirren Gidda](https://time.com/author/mirren-gidda/) ## Mirren Gidda Jun 19, 2014 1:59 PM UTC  Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Mary Elizabeth Donaldson drive off after their engagement at Copenhagen's Amalienborg Palace on October 8, 2013. Francis Dean—Corbis  Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, embraces wife Kate Middleton during London's Olympic Games on August 2, 2012. Pascal Le Segretain—Getty Images  Charlene Wittstock, former Olympic swimmer and current wife of Prince Albert II of Monaco, smiles in a swimming pool on Feb. 10, 1997. Ruvan Boshoff—Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images  Tatiana Blatnik, Princess of Greece and Denmark, poses at the Giorgio Armani fashion show in Milan on Feb. 25, 2014. Vittorio Zunino Celotto—Getty Images  Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, arrives at the christening of her son, Odysseas Kimon, in Athens on June 18, 2005. James Whatling—UK Press/Getty Images  Maxima Zorreguieta cycles ahead of her then fiance, Crown Prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands, during a tour of Holland on Sept. 26, 2001. Raymond Rutting—Hollandse Hoogte/Corbis  Mabel Wisse Smit smiles at late husband Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau after their wedding ceremony in Delft, Netherlands on April 24, 2004. Frank van Beek—Capital Photo/Corbis  Princess Letizia of Spain waves to photographers at a seminar on Spanish language in journalism in San Millan de la Cogolla, Spain on May 28, 2014. Michael Murdock—Splash News/Corbis  Silvia Sommerlath, stands with husband King Carl Gustaf of Sweden after their marriage on June 19, 1976. 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