Alternate Marriages

[DSS]

Bend history in any way you like to form alternate marriages between famous people. For example:

President John F. Kennedy serves eight years as President, and shortly after he leaves office, Jackie discovers the facts about her husband's "escapades" and divorces him. Kennedy marries Marilyn Monroe a few years after the divorce. Although Kennedy has become infamous since the divorce, the children of John and Marilyn Kennedy are very, very interesting.

On March 31, 1981, Nancy Reagan accompanies her husband, President Reagan, on his car trip. Although John Hinckley Jr. intends to kill the President, he shoots and kills Nancy Reagan instead. A few months later, an IRA bomb kills the husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. A year or two later, President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher become more than friends, fall in love, and marry in 1984.

That sort of thing. Go for the awesomest marriages possible.

 

[Emperor Norton I]

President John F. Kennedy serves eight years as President, and shortly after he leaves office, Jackie discovers the facts about her husband's "escapades" and divorces him. Kennedy marries Marilyn Monroe a few years after the divorce. Although Kennedy has become infamous since the divorce, the children of John and Marilyn Kennedy are very, very interesting.

She and Bobby already knew. She didn't like it but had come to accept it. And both of them really did love each other. So divorce won't occur.

 

[DSS]

She and Bobby already knew. She didn't like it but had come to accept it. And both of them really did love each other. So divorce won't occur.

Ah well, that was just an example. You getcwhat I mean.

 

[Cuāuhtemōc]

Someone managed to get Robert Kennedy involved with Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother, in one timeline whose name I can't seem to recall. It was kind of interesting to have John Lennon being an (adopted) member of the Kennedy family.

 

[NickCT]

After the assassination of Jack, Jackie begins seeing Bobby. When Ethel dies giving birth to one of the children the affair turns in to a marriage.

Hillary Rodham divorces Bill in 1990, preventing his political career. She meets Harvard dropout Bill Gates whom she eventually marries. Gates finances Clinton's campaign for President in 2004 after a couple terms as a U.S. Senator in Washington. Bill Clinton remains unmarried and, after with his political career gone, turns to becoming a lawyer.

 

[RogueBeaver]

Kennedys: That scenario is completely ASB unless ASBs grant both of them personality transplants, no matter what Phone Booth Heymann says.

 

[Bored Accountant]

George W Bush and Hillary Rodham meet at Yale and they eventually fall in love and marry. Maybe not plausible but I find it less ridiculous than most of the other partnerships suggested in this thread.

 

[Swan Station]

Hillary Rodham divorces Bill in 1990, preventing his political career. She meets Harvard dropout Bill Gates whom she eventually marries. Gates finances Clinton's campaign for President in 2004 after a couple terms as a U.S. Senator in Washington. Bill Clinton remains unmarried and, after with his political career gone, turns to becoming a lawyer.

Hmmm... that's cutting it close. Gates married Melinda French in 1994, no idea when they started actually dating. Since you're referring to Gates as a Harvard dropout, and not Microsoft Co-founder, does that mean there's no Microsoft in TTL? That would prevent him from meeting Melinda (she was an employee when they met), but it would also probably probably remove his ability to finance her campaign.

If he hasn't gotten anywhere from dropping out of Harvard by the 1990's, he probably isn't going to get anywhere by then. Although, it's kind of interesting to think of Bill Gates as a frustrated mid-level programmer who doesn't get anywhere, but then suddenly starts building his own business after marrying Hillary Rodham and gaining some of her family's big corporate connections. Maybe he'd be a little less arrogant in TTL, having been at the other end of the payscale for so long.

 

[Orville_third]

There is a short story where Hillary Clinton marries Richard Fenyman and Bill Clinton marries Mary Steenburgen ("Hillary Orbits Venus").

I have a story idea in which a wounded British veteran named Terence Young marries a young Dutch girl named Audrey van Heemstra, who he met after the fighting in Arnhem. (Both were in the area IOTL.) The resulting marriage changes cinema history and also the nation of Iraq. (I won't give too many spoilers since I plan to do this sometime...)

 

[Swan Station]

I have a story idea in which a wounded British veteran named Terence Young marries a young Dutch girl named Audrey van Heemstra, who he met after the fighting in Arnhem. (Both were in the area IOTL.) The resulting marriage changes cinema history and also the nation of Iraq. (I won't give too many spoilers since I plan to do this sometime...)

Okay, I had to look up these names... very, very clever.

 

[Andrew T]

I have a story idea in which a wounded British veteran named Terence Young marries a young Dutch girl named Audrey van Heemstra, who he met after the fighting in Arnhem. (Both were in the area IOTL.) The resulting marriage changes cinema history and also the nation of Iraq. (I won't give too many spoilers since I plan to do this sometime...)

Wasn't she Audrey Ruston?

 

[Emperor Norton I]

Someone managed to get Robert Kennedy involved with Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother, in one timeline whose name I can't seem to recall. It was kind of interesting to have John Lennon being an (adopted) member of the Kennedy family.

I think that was Joseph Kennedy Jr, actually, in the TL about Huey Long becoming President.

 

[John Fredrick Parker]

This has got me wondering who else Eleanor Roosevelt might have married who could have had anything close to the impact FDR did...

 

[Swan Station]

Wasn't she Audrey Ruston?

According to WikiP and IMDB, she switched to Edda van Heemstra (from her Mother's name) during the war to sound less English in German-occupied Netherlands. Not too far a stretch from there to Audrey van Heemstra.