Tearjerker Facts About Real-Life Tragic Love Stories
“Is love a tender thing?” Mercutio asks Romeo, in Shakespeare’s famous play about tragic star-crossed lovers. By the end of the play, with Romeo and Juliet both dead for love – the audience has it’ answer – no, love is not a tender thing.
Sometimes love goes beyond heartbreaking, sometimes love is tragic. It’s not just Romeo and Juliet who don’t get a happily ever after, here are love stories so sad, they give Romeo and Juliet a run for their money.
Real-Life Tragic Love Stories Facts
1. No Happily Ever After
Helen Simmons was just a working girl from Australia, there wasn’t anything truly out of the ordinary about her. Up until the night she went to a party and fell in love with a Prince.
Back in 1976, Simmons went to a party for work and ended up meeting Prince Mukkaram Jah, an Indian prince and one of the richest men in the world. The pair fell in love, despite the fact that Jah already had a wife.
Once he divorced his first wife, Jah and Simmons got married.
This real-life fairytale didn’t have a happy ending though. The pair divorced as it came to light that when Jah left Simmons alone for lengthy amounts of time, she had turned to a mystery lover Mr. X.
To add to the tragedy Simmons was diagnosed with AIDs at the height of the epidemic, and passed in 1989.
2. Romeo and Juliet
Amreen was young Muslim girl living in India. She lived in a small farming village, where her family sold buffalo milk to make their living. Every day, a Hindu boy, Lokesh would come and buy milk from her family. The two met and fell in love.
Unfortunately, for the pair, in India Hindu and Muslims do not marry. Their match was not going to be approved of by their respective families.
The pair married in secret, and once it was found the pair had married their tribal leader told them to separate or they’d be executed. Rather than be separated, the pair took poison together and passed.
3. Never To Be Separated
Tragedy ripped through Europe in the early 90s as Serbians attempted to ethnically cleanse Muslim Bosniaks and Bosian Croats. In this midst of this genocide, Admira Ismic, a Bosnian Muslim woman fell in love with a Serbian man, Boscko Brkic.
The pair attempted to escape Sarajevo as Serbian control tightened in the city, they wanted to go someplace they could be safe, and build a better lives for themselves.
But as they left Sarajevo the pair were shot by snipers. Bosko was struck and immediately killed, Admira wounded, crawled to her lovers side, putting her arms around him she passed at his side rather than try and escape to safety.
The pair lied on that bridge for eight days before their bodies were retrived and put to rest. Today they rest side by side in the same town they fell in love in.
One of Bosko’s friends said, "Back then, we thought you would make it and be happy together. But you didn't, it is as if every great love must end like this."
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