Great Love Stories: An Archive

Many of the world’s greatest love stories begin with love at first sight; then there are those, which take a little longer for love to blossom . . .
A dashing young polo player with rugged good looks and a beyond charming smile; a striking young model, with golden hair & a doe-eyed stare.
{great love stories № 03 |  shah jahan & mumtaz mahal}
{great love stories № 04 |  elizabeth taylor & richard burton}
{love stories № 05 | prince william & kate middleton}
{great love stories № 06 | audrey hepburn & robert wolders}
{great love stories № 07 | napoleon bonaparte & maria walewska}
Aptly dubbed the ‘power-couple’ of the nineties, John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy were modern American royalty.
{great love stories № 09 | paul newman & joanne woodward}
{great love stories № 10 ricky & ralph lauren}
№ 11 | Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner
№ 12 | Diana & Reed Vreeland
{great love stories № 13 | humphrey bogart & lauren bacall}
The pop princess and the heartthrob — a story so often heard, but one that not so often lasts the test of time. The pressures of fame will challenge even the strongest of romances, and those that survive can only be described as a great love story . . .
№ 15 | Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn
Bronzed legs that go on forever, hair perfectly imperfect, golden, dewy skin and a sparkling mega-watt smile — the now iconic image of Farrah Fawcett laughing in a simple red swimsuit so perfectly encapsulated her spirit and vitality and love; it was clear that whomever captured this beauty’s heart would most certainly be a very lucky man . . .
Cesira in Two Women, and Lucia Curio in It Started In Naples, Filumena Marturano in Marriage Italian-Style and Giovanna in Sunflower — Sophia Loren has been known by many names throughout her life and acting career, but she was known as ‘wife’, ‘soul mate’ and ‘great love’ to only one person: Carlo Ponti.
№ 18 | Christopher & Dana Reeve
Fondest Farewell, Jane Birkin (1946-2023)
№ 20 : Prince Edward & Wallis Simpson
№ 21 | Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett
The rockstar and the Hollywood princess―a match made in heaven. Both effortlessly cool, so naturally suave, debonair―but in a cultured, à la mode way. Sofia Coppola―film director, actress, model, screenwriter and producer, and her beau, Thomas Mars, front man of the band Phoenix―are the quintessential mod couple.
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