A Glimpse Inside The Marriage Of The Richest Couples In History (5 of 5)

Henry and Clara Ford

“The greatest day of my life was when I married Mrs. Ford,” Henry told the New York Times in 1983. Even though the industrialist was 22 was he proposed to his wife, Clara Jane Bryant who was at that time 20, they won’t tie the knot because her mom told them to wait two years more. The couples were at last married on April 11, 1888, on Clara’s 22nd birthday.

In their early years of marriage before moving to Detroit where Henry worked on building a gasoline-powered horseless carriage in his spare time while working as an engineer for Edison Illuminating Company, they had lived on farmland that was gifted to them by Henry’s dad. Henry later went on to start his company- Ford Motor and started mass assembly of Ford vehicle, the model A. His vehicles and business astuteness would in the end, make Henry one of the nation’s leading businessmen.

All through his career, Clara bolstered her husband business idea and would go with him on an excursion for work far and wide. Her trust in him drove Henry to give her the appellation his “great believer.”

Jackie and Aristotle Onassis

Do you know anyone who got married to the wife of a president? I mean I bet you don’t. Well, now you do, Aristotle was fortune with his fortunes to marry the widow of President John F. Kennedy five years after the assignation of the then president. Many who loved the nice looking youthful president and his glitzy woman were horrified by the match. Jackie was 39 while Aristotle claimed to be 62, even though there is an indication from his passport that suggests otherwise. Even though he was worth millions, Americans still couldn’t wrap their head around the fact that their sweetheart got married to a man who is much older. It appeared grievous to them despite a life that already been struck by heartbreak.

The marriage was by most records, a miserable one. “After the honeymoon trip, the marriage was loaded up with what one close pal of Ari’s called ‘the nights of long silences,'” read Aristotle’s 1975 obituary in Time. As the couple couldn’t find a common interest, “Jackie loved concert, ballet, and theater; Onassis preferred loud bouzouki music, belly dancers and at times the company of roistering Greek businessmen. A significant part of the time they lived separate lives.