Frances Cleveland's Marriage Was WORSE Than America Believed

June 2, 1886. The Blue Room. Thirty-one guests, the Marine Band, and the only wedding a sitting president has ever held inside the White House. America called it a fairy tale. The groom was forty-nine. The bride was twenty-one, and he had bought her baby carriage. In letters from their secret engagement he calls her his darling Child. Two years earlier a scandal had attached his name to a boy christened Oscar Folsom Cleveland — named for the bride's dead father. She outlived him by thirty-nine years. She decided what the country got to know. It started with a carriage accident.