Royal Wedding Nights from Hell: Watched, Pressured, Humiliated

Royal marriages were rarely love matches. More often than not, they were purely political deals between strangers who met for the first time at the altar. But royal wedding rituals didn’t end with the exchange of rings. After that, these two complete strangers had to go to bed together with dozens of curious eyes watching them. In this video, we explore five disastrous royal wedding nights involving Catherine de’ Medici, Anne of Austria, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Caroline of Brunswick. From public bedding ceremonies and intrusive royal relatives to unconsummated marriages and years of estrangement, their stories reveal how the pressure to fulfil royal duties could turn a wedding night into a nightmare.