History’s Most Infamous Shotgun Weddings

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & ANNE HATHAWAY
Married: November 27, 1582
Historians have long speculated about the relationship between the world’s most famous playwright and his wife, but it sounds like a shotgun to us. When Shakespeare was only 18, he knocked up this 26-year-old chick from the next town over. Three months later, they married in a hasty ceremony. But Bill didn’t let his ball and chain tie him down'he spent the majority of his life galavanting in London, while his wife stayed at home in the small town of Stratford.