[custom_adv] PRINCE CHARLES PRINCESS DIANA Perhaps the most famous royal divorce in history (or at least, the last 100 years) was that of the Prince and Princess of Wales, which was finalized in 1995. [custom_adv] PRINCESS ANNE MARK PHILLIPS The same year of Charles and Diana's separation, another royal marriage came to an end. Princess Anne, the Queen's second child, finalized her divorce from her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, after they separated back in 1989. [custom_adv] PRINCE ANDREW SARAH FERGUSON The Queen's third child, Prince Andrew, married Sarah Ferguson, whom he knew from childhood, in July 1986. Their marriage, however, only lasted six years before they separated in 1992. [custom_adv] KING EDWARD VIII WALLIS SIMPSON Though this couple never split, they impacted the divorce issue for royals more than anyone since King Henry VIII. King Edward VII ascended the throne in 1936, but reigned for just 11 months before abdicating to marry his American girlfriend, Wallis Simpson. [custom_adv] PRINCESS MARGARET ANTONY ARMSTRONG JONES Princess Margaret's romantic history is brimming with divorce-fueled drama. The first came in the early years of her sister Queen Elizabeth's reign, when she wanted to marry the divorced Peter Townsend. [custom_adv] Shah of Iran and Fawzia Fuad Princess Fawzia of Egypt and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi were married at the Abdeen Palace in Cairo on 15 March 1939. The marriage was not a success. Queen Fawzia (the title of empress was not yet used in Iran at that time) moved to Cairo in May 1945 and obtained an Egyptian divorce [custom_adv] Shah of Iran and Soraya Esfandiary In 1948, Soraya was introduced to the recently divorced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Soraya married the Shah at Marble Palace, Tehran, on 12 February 1951. The couple's marriage had disintegrated by early 1958 owing to Soraya's apparent infertility. On 21 March 1958, the Iranian New Year's Day, a weeping Shah announced his divorce to the Iranian people in a speech that was broadcast on radio and television. [custom_adv] PRINCESS CAROLINE OF MONACO PHILIPPE JUNOT Princess Grace and Prince Rainier's eldest daughter has been married three times, but just one has ended in divorce. That was her first marriage, to Philippe Junot, whom she married when she was 21. [custom_adv] PRINCESS STPHANIE OF MONACO DANIEL DUCRUET ADANS LOPEZ PERES Caroline's younger sister, Monaco's Princess Stéphanie, has been divorced twice, both after very brief marriages. She married her bodyguard, Daniel Ducruet, pictured here, in 1995, after they had two children together. They divorced a little more than a year later. Her second marriage came in 2003, to acrobat Adans Lopez Peres. They divorced in 2004.
