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Here are the most insane dowries in history
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To start, Eleanor of Aquitaine brought half of France with her. Imagine that on a registry
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We need a blender, a kegerator, and half of France if you could. It's on our Williams-Sonoma registry
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Medieval France wasn't a united country. It was divided into a bunch of little pieces ruled by dukes who answered to the king
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One of those pieces was Aquitaine, which was most of southwestern France. So when Duke William X of Aquitaine named his eldest daughter Eleanor as his heiress
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King Louis VI, a.k.a. Louis the Fat, said, You'll be my son's wife. Deal with it
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So they got married in Eleanor, United, Aquitaine, with Louis VII's territory
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which was mostly just Paris, but they got divorced, and Louis had to give back Aquitaine despite wanting to re-gift it
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In 2013, a Chinese billionaire spared no expense, thanks John, on his daughter's dowry
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In total, her belongings, which included luxury cars, banknotes, villas, storefronts and mansions were valued at over 155 million pounds. She ended up having an eight-day
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wedding where she was given all of those gifts from her father, but the fun part? No one knows
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how her dad afforded all that stuff. His previous year's salary was just 12,000 pounds. Maybe it's
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better just to not think about it Chinese Triad Marie Chantal Miller was given 200 million by her luxury goods billionaire dad Robert Miller when she married Pavlos the crown prince of Greece In exile in exile he is the son of the ousted king Constantine
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and Queen Sophia. Marie Chantel wasn't royalty, but who really cares when your family can host a
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giant pre-wedding reception with 1,300 guests, a real deal wedding reception with a tent shaped
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like the Acropolis, and buy you a pearl-encrusted wedding dress that costs over $200,000. No one cares
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Even though actress Grace Kelly was the one marrying into royalty, very Prince Rainier of Monaco
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she was the one who had to bring along a dowry. Grace's father also made a ton of money in the brick business
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so he was able to fork over $2 million to help pay for his daughter's royal wedding
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$75k for her dress alone. Kelly also had to undergo a fertility test
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to make sure she'd be able to bear heirs to Prince Rainier. No word on if the prince had to get his sperm checked
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but I'm gonna guess no. No, he didn't. Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza was to marry King Charles II of England
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and she brought $500,000 with her, which was big money back then
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She brought the major, major trading ports of Tangier, Mumbai, and Morocco
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so that those were now under British control. And in case that isn't doing it for you, she also brought the rights to trade with Portuguese colonies all over the world
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I'm Jordan, and those are the most insane dowries in history
