From Austen and the Brontës to the kings who gave up their throne, by way of Tristan, Lancelot and Queen Victoria: the United Kingdom wrote modern romantic love.
From Austen and the Brontës to the kings who gave up their throne, by way of Tristan, Lancelot and Queen Victoria: the United Kingdom wrote modern romantic love.
The love that defeats pride
The couple from "Pride and Prejudice" who learn to love by overcoming his pride and her prejudice: the most perfect happy ending in literature.
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He gave up a throne for love
King Edward VIII signed the abdication on December 10, 1936 to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson, declaring he could not reign "without the help and support of the woman I love."
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An obsessive love on the moors
The obsessive, destructive love of "Wuthering Heights": "I am Heathcliff," says Catherine, in one of literature's fiercest declarations.
Read the storyThe potion that doomed two lovers
The knight who escorts Isolde to marry his uncle, King Mark; on the voyage they mistakenly drink a love potion and fall into an impossible passion that destroys them.
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Forty years of mourning for love
When Albert died in 1861, Queen Victoria wore mourning black for the remaining 40 years of her life.
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The love that toppled Camelot
The greatest knight of the Round Table and Queen Guinevere, King Arthur's wife: an adulterous love that, once discovered, sinks the ideal kingdom of Camelot.
Read the storySome of the greatest are Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy, Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson, Heathcliff & Catherine.