Maria Shriver's Marriage Was Much Nastier Than You Thought

April 26, 1986. St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis. Caroline Kennedy is maid of honor. Andy Warhol is taking the pictures. America calls it Camelot marrying the American Dream. At the reception, the groom toasts Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian president then accused of hiding a Nazi-era past. Seventeen years later, Maria Shriver told a crowd her husband was an A-plus human being. A tabloid company was already buying up women's stories about him. In her own house, two boys had been born five days apart. She stayed. Then she took the story. It all began on a tennis court in 1977. Start with that toast, because almost nobody remembers it and it tells you what kind of arrangement this was from the first afternoon.