When George IV, then Prince of Wales, met his first cousin and fiancé Caroline of Brunswick for the first time in 1795, he was so repulsed that he asked for a stiff drink. Caroline, for her part, complained that the fat prince didn't look anything like the handsome portraits she'd seen, according to History Answers. The cousins' union was always going to be a disaster. George had already been married for 10 years to the commoner Maria Fitzherbert. They even had two kids. But that marriage didn't count because she was a Catholic. George's debts started getting out of control, but the only way Parliament would pay them was if he got married properly. So Caroline it was.

To get through the wedding ceremony, the prince was fall-down drunk. Amazingly, that night he managed to get his new wife pregnant. It would be the only time they had sex. Both of them openly started cheating on the other, and within two years they had officially separated.

But George wanted rid of this woman forever. He even brought her to court when she adopted a baby boy, making the prime minister find out if the kid was actually Caroline's secret baby by a footman. When George was crowned king, she should have been crowned queen beside him, but George had the doors locked in her face. And when an official informed him of Napoleon's death, saying, "Sire, your greatest enemy is dead," George replied, in all seriousness, "Is she, by God?"

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