The Celebrity Wedding Everyone Was Talking About the Year You Were Born
11. 1964
Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times and two of them were to Richard Burton. The two met on the set of the 1963 film Cleopatra, and they divorced their previous spouses to marry each other. They split in 1974 and remarried in 1975, only to divorce again a year later.
12. 1966
Actress Mia Farrow married Frank Sinatra when she was 21 and he was 50 in Las Vegas in 1966. Two years later, Sinatra handed her divorce papers when she was on the set of Rosemary’s Baby
13. 1967
Priscilla Wagner first met Elvis Presley in 1959 when she was 14 years old. The two stayed in contact and eventually dated, getting married on May 1, 1967, in Las Vegas. The couple had one child together, Lisa Marie, and eventually divorced in 1972 because Priscilla had fallen in love with her karate instructor.
14. 1968
June Carter and Johnny Cash often performed country duets together. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in Ontario. The wedding took place on March 1, 1968, and they stayed married until her death in May 2003.
15. 1969
John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, when he was still married to his first wife Cynthia. After his divorce was finalized, Lennon and Ono married in 1969 in a 10-minute ceremony at the British Consulate office. They have one child together, Sean Lennon, and remained married until Lennon’s death in 1973.
16. 1970
David Bowie met Angelina Barnett in 1969 when Barnett was 19. They were married on March 20, 1970, and had one son together, Duncan. Angie was responsible for helping Bowie conceptualize his outfits and image during his “Ziggy Stardust” phase. They divorced in 1980 after nine years of marriage.
17. 1971
Rock’s glamour couple, Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger married Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias in 1971 when she was already four months pregnant. They were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony and word got out about the wedding, leading over 100 photographers and reporters to swarm the scene. They had one child together named Jade, and Bianca filed for divorce in 1978, reportedly because Jagger had been unfaithful.
18. 1972
Birgitte Eva Henriksen married Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester on July 8, 1972, at St. Andrew’s Church in Northamptonshire. Birgitte wore a dress designed by Norman Hartnell. Six weeks after their wedding, Prince Richard’s older brother was killed, making him heir apparent. The couple have three children together: Alexander, Davina, and Rose.
19. 1973
Charlie’s Angels star Farrah Fawcett wed Lee Majors in 1973 and they were married for nine years before separating in 1982. After almost two decades of silence, the pair reconnected shortly before Fawcett’s death in 2009.
20. 1974
Socialite Peggy Lipton married musician and producer Quincy Jones in 1974. The couple had two daughters together, Rashida and Kidada Jones, before parting ways in 1990.