We may earn commission on valentine’s day gift ideas for teenage couples of the items you choose to buy. In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, we take a spin through history’s greatest lovers—star crossed, cursed, life-long, and everything in between. Throughout history couples in love have caused wars and controversy, created masterpieces in writing, music, and art, and have captured the hearts of the public with the power of their bonds.
From the allure of Cleopatra to the magnetism of the Kennedy’s, these love affairs have stood as markers in history. Prepare to swoon over these love stories of the centuries. She was another man’s wife, but when Paris, the “handsome, woman-mad” prince of Troy, saw Helen, the woman whom Aphrodite proclaimed the most beautiful in the world, he had to have her. Helen and Paris ran off together, setting in motion the decade-long Trojan War.